[K0balt]

Holy crap this piece is spot on. I’ve been trying to get my head around the weird thing that my work has become, and this article does a good job of painting the picture.

I’d add another dangerous bit; for some people (me) it has a side effect. Where before, if I spent 6 hours in deep hack, I felt like I had accomplished something, and I was mentally spent. I was done for the day, a job well done, not desiring or really capable of more productive work.

Now, the work is lower intensity, higher levels of abstraction, and I can do it for 16 hours a day, effectively, and still feel like I’m not done. I’m covering 6x the ground, but I feel like I accomplished less. It’s a bizarre productivity trap , fiending for dopamine like golemn fiending for the ring, exhausted but not spent, producing more than ever but never enough.

At least I’m not working for someone else, but sometimes I wonder if I would handle it better if I was?