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My new year's reflection/retreat ritual is to tell myself "I really should learn real programming this year, beyond matlab", enthusiastically writing a hello-world program or working through some tutorial in a new language, and then giving up.
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Programming is the best. Definitely try going deeper. The test if you’ll ever really love programming: do you love debugging? (Analogy to write fast, edit to quality...)
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No, I hate programming. I only keep half-ass trying to get into it because it would allow me to do interesting things that I cannot afford to pay other people to do.
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Think about it this way. Eventually age will catch up with you. The more of your thinking you could export in code, the less of an effect losing it would have on your productivity later. In a way, making code is a cleaner and cheaper version of making children.
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plain writing is a slightly dirtier and more expensive version, that probably is more valuable for someone like me... more of my thinking is capturable as just text than code
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I had an idea that a forcing function to learn something is to hang a shingle on fiverr that you'll do that thing at a basic level. So put an ad that you'll help with python coding for a simple use case (Blender scripting or something) and see if you get any work.
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