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Apr 1, 2018

Software versions considered harmful? An interesting alternative based around contracts: http://hintjens.com/blog:85

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Feb 12, 2017

I’ve felt recently that I don’t have as much free time as I did in high school, though I’m pretty sure I actually have quite a bit more. I think the problem may be that I spend my time outside of work in uncreative ways.

It’s weird, but I think creativity thrives on frustration. In high school, I had maybe an hour free every weekday, but I made those hours count. I wrote, composed, drew, invented. Now, with no hard constraints on my time, it’s surprisingly hard to find the same sort of focus and motivation.

It’s also possible that while my weekdays are more free, my weekends are actually less free. I spend a lot more time doing personal and household maintenance stuff on weekends now—shopping, cooking, cleaning… that sort of thing.

I also recall that I spent large swaths of time during my childhood being bored. I rarely have time to be bored now, and maybe that’s part of the problem.