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by ozim 245 days ago
That’s something I relate too as well. I like working on different abstraction levels throughout the system.

Only way to cope was to let go things and pick my battles.

I always think about the joke where a sailor goes down to the dock and asks dock men if they speak French, English or German- dock men only shake their heads showing no. Later dock men chat and one saying to other he could learn languages so he would be able to talk with the sailor. The other replied that sailor knew 3 and it didn’t help him.