The more I code, the more machine like I become
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When I read engaging fiction, I feel like I'm literally in the other world. My mind is filled with modeling and empathizing with the characters, predicting what will happen next.
When I stop reading there's a jarring sense of reorienting to to the real world around me
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Feels like a similar thing is happening when I program a lot. Except instead of characters and plot I'm tracking systems and abstractions
there's the similar feeling of being cognitively hooked into something, and it feels weird to step away from it
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like.... the word that comes to mind is "docile". when I get pulled into coding, and then stop, I feel very docile, and like I just want to be comfortable and be given the next puzzle
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I've noticed that consciousness recedes when I'm deep in a coding phase, many back-to-back days in flow. My mind narrows to tunnel-vision, fixated on the software and its issues. My sense of self shrinks; non-code ideas cease to arise; I get less curious; writing yields little.
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Boy, does this resonate. There's a sense of ease that's quite discomfiting.
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like.... the word that comes to mind is "docile". when I get pulled into coding, and then stop, I feel very docile, and like I just want to be comfortable and be given the next puzzle
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