[yomritoyj]

This is very much my experience too. Binge programming can give you a false satisfaction of having done intellectual work without too great an intellectual effort. I find myself itching to write up some code precisely at those times when I am feeling frustrated that I am not working on something “deep” but when the really “deep” things seem too hard and their rewards too far away in the future.

[392c91e8165b]

Yes. When my main motivation for programming was to get the high that comes from long stretches of time spent in intense absorption, my programming time seemed to be less productive than it is now.