[lanstin]

Yeah and that design and insight is the tiring part and while fun a bit less satisfying in the way that writing a nice bit of boiler plate or populating the struct members for your data type can be. One thing is you can work on design and insight while taking a good walk around the block, which is nice.

[skydhash]

I spend that time mostly on the sofa, or in front of a whiteboard. Or sometimes a live brainstorming. Typing code is actually relaxing. What looks like relaxing is actually hard thinking.

[lanstin]

I try to explain this to my family (currently in a pure remote job) but it is difficult to make the case persuasively. Honestly tempted to start recording voice memos to self to capture the ideas for next steps, which I can run five of in tmux if i keep the directories straight.