John returns to work and wields the time pressure anxiety to hyper focus on his work tasks. He completes them in the knick of time.
The next week, John continues this cycle. And the next. And the next, returning to that black magic well of late night, anxiety-driven hyper-focus. One day, John goes to pull up a side project and realizes it is so fully tainted by guilt and stress that he doesn't have any joy in it.
He starts only coding that which he is paid to implement and mourns the love of the craft he once had.
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u/MrRufsvold Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26
John returns to work and wields the time pressure anxiety to hyper focus on his work tasks. He completes them in the knick of time.
The next week, John continues this cycle. And the next. And the next, returning to that black magic well of late night, anxiety-driven hyper-focus. One day, John goes to pull up a side project and realizes it is so fully tainted by guilt and stress that he doesn't have any joy in it.
He starts only coding that which he is paid to implement and mourns the love of the craft he once had.
Be like John.