It's great advice! and don't worry about it being "unasked for". I've been a professional programmer for nearly 20 years, and a systems tinkerer my whole life. I _do_ love it. The capacity it provides for orchestrating and modifying information and systems is basically wizardry and is as satisfying as one would expect! To me, all art is the process of taking thoughts out of your head and actualizing them in ways that touch the world. software checks that box really hard. The part of it that can get me down, though, is the form factor, so to speak. screen, desk, indoors, .....i was going to say "keyboard", too, but I absolutely love keyboards, vim, TUIs, etc. lol. it has such a "dead" and excessively non-analog, non-tactical user interface. Luckily, most great work is done in thought, not in typing - so maybe the best way to handle it is to spend more time doing physical activities while the mind works, and less time blasting the new ideas out of your fingertips into the editor. probably end up with better output and happier that way.