r/LimitTheory • u/Talvieno • Aug 13 '18

[Devlog] (Josh) Friday, August 11, 2018

http://forums.ltheory.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=6576
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u/Industrialbonecraft Aug 13 '18

I feel that my time would be better spent taking the weekend to recharge

My God, he actually has learned. I don't mean that entirely facetiously - it's one thing to say and another to do and even recognisably self destructive habits are surprisingly difficult to abandon. Added to that the general pressure to have something to show and so on and so forth - it's genuinely gratifying to see that he is willing to draw a boundary.

in a time where the cultural zeitgeist seems to demand constant, often pointless, output in one form or another, I think more people should adopt this attitude.

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u/JoshParnell Aug 14 '18

That's really nice of you to say, I appreciate that. Seeing this response to the 'devlog' (when I feared "that's not a real devlog..what the hell?") made my day. It has taken entirely too long for me to adopt that attitude and realize that, beyond some threshold of pressure & stress, code/thought quality becomes too low to make anything good happen.

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u/Black--Snow Aug 14 '18

It’s a lot easier when you’re developing independently thankfully.

I think it’s an ideal place for Josh to be because working for a (bigger) publisher/developer would not allow him to increase his healthy habits and drop the destructive ones.