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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Perhaps this year's false start will be this clojurescript thing everybody's raving about. I've never tried any flavor of Lisp
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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

