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@@HealthyDev I'm torn between being creative at work and not. I can spin up a full stack site with backend in 8hrs and have beautiful animations, hot reload and docker support... raw and from memory. (Not using react. I made my own template from lots of study and trial and error) Dunno what to do with it except make my own llc. Working govt contract for income. Want to have a side gig where I can be creative for clients.
Ain't gonna lie, but working many hours on the computer can kill all your emotions not only creativity. Most of the developers are depressed and there is a reason for that - we are not meant to stay sitting 6-8 hours a day in front of monitor solving abstract problems. Unfortunately we have to earn money to live, so you have to do it want it or not. For me the escape is hiking , so that my eyes and soul can take a rest a while from this.
Doing exactly the same! No more overtime! Doing 2-3 hr of deep work, 2-3 for stupid meetings then close the laptop and go for cycling, hiking, swimming, photo walks etc. Much more fun is to do electronics, electrical stuff and woodworking.
I can work all day long for months because I make projects I own. The problem is alienation when someone else is taking the bulk of the profits you generate
Try some repetitive, long, boring, mindless job where you can't sit at all for a few months. Trust me, you will learn to appreciate sitting 6-8 solving abstract problems much more
@@cristianocolangelo9920 My side hustle is being mountain guide and if it is possible to do only that to live good life I would do it, but that's not the case :)
I used to really love writing but stopped almost as soon as I became a software engineer. I recently started scheduling 20 - 30 minutes on my lunch break after eating to go off by myself outside and read a chapter in a book, write in my journal, draft some ideas, or just enjoy nature. Learning how to unplug for a few moments during the workday to just be creative and enjoy the creativity around me has started to help me in all areas of life. Thanks Jayme for sharing your creativity and experience with us.
I am presently in the "creativity killed by leadership" situation. There isn't much that I see that can be done to change it. After trying and failing for many months, altering my expectations of what I will or will not bring to the table has helped me save some of my creativity for my personal life. Just had to recognize what wasn't in my control, then take control of what was in my control. Not easy, but it is helping me continue to bring my best husband and father to my wife and kids.
Yup, we’ve all been there. Companies say they value innovation but they really DON’T. Preserver types become managers and they don’t like or want change. See Chris Athanas and Adventure Driven Development 😅
What a great , unspoken topic you bring up. I’ve always strived to find a creative outlet because of how fulfilled it makes me feel. Really love how you connected it to feeling empty inside when you don’t have a way to express your creative side.
@@HealthyDev yeah it is something unique to you and your videos. It is a very original kind of transition in a developer-focused video. It also balances and contrasts the content between the topic of your video and something completely different. The balance is reflecting work/life balance which ties into your channel's theme.
AI (specifically Copilot) has saved me from burning out. I no longer put creative effort into my work or try to innovate. Instead I accept whatever slop the LLM produces and I get my work done within the time box + I make sure the velocity line goes up. Management couldn't be happier with their dashboards and reports. Nowadays I spend my creative energy building hobby projects, digital art, and woodworking projects on the weekend.
In my humble 4 decades experience, you can only work effectively with this kind of mentality exhausting problem solving for a 2-3 hour stretch with at least 3-5 hours between, at most 2-3 times per day, normally no more than 6 hours in total (at least after 35y old) 😅
Maybe I'm in rare fortunate position where I can be creative in my work. The problem I'm facing is more along the lines of "acceptable quality" - I would want to set the minimum bar much higher than the rest of the team. It's surprisingly demanding mentally to have to accept the fact that the finished product is of lower quality than you would personally want to output. The customer base seem to be happy with the resulting quality even though I can see random failures every now and then in logs so maybe my personal criteria for a "acceptable quality" is simply much higher than general population.
i care about quality and excellence. i want to hope my teammates do too. i don't see the need to settle, it doesn't help people grow. of course, this is idealistic. but learning and building better software will save time and energy, not just in the long term.
Very respectable. I was once in a week long argumentdisucission with a coworker about how to make comments look the most astetic though. I respect them a great deal for trying to reach perfection, but I personally feel the efficiency curve demands you stop at around 90%, because there comes a point where the energy put in does not reflect the value out. It was surprising how many people were not doing that math, and were just trying to ascend to code god hood. While at the same time, making it impossible for other people to reach quality with their nitpicking, because everyone has a different idea of perfection. Just on top of that, the urge for perfection seems to go hand in hand with using the latest hype train code whatever. You know what I want? My code to be readable to amateur coders, and to be broken into modules in such a way that it is eternal. It does not need to look like art, or conversely, be so unbelievably advanced that no one can ever read it again. I WANT it to look dumb, not look like every coding pattern having a perfectly orchestrated o**y that will be painted on the ceiling of a church. Im not saying your like this. Just be careful of the traps that lie that way. Thats all.
@@Elemblue2 i agree with that. i think we work in very different environments though. the last place i was at, it wasn't like trying to go from 90% to something better. the state of things was much lower than that. to be fair, it wasn't the teams fault, it was people long before them, and they inherited and learned from an app that was subpar and learned bad lessons from the beginning. they were all new devs when they joined.
@@Elemblue2 I totally agree about people disagreeing what kind of code is perfect. I'm personally mostly interested in code being clearly understandable and non-fragile. That is, the next developer making changes to it should understand the existing system and if they make mistakes during the implementation, the failure should trigger assert()s during testing instead of silently corrupting user data in production. I prefer correctly working code to nice looking code. I'd prefer having setup where you can run 24/7 mutation testing (which requires 100% code coverage in automated testing to even start) but my team doesn't see that valueable enough to even try to improve automated testing. One should consider mutation testing as automated testing of quality of your human designed automated testing. If you cannot do mutation testing, you cannot even know how much your existing tests are missing even if you had 100% code coverage. And most software projects ever made do not even have 100% code coverage for the automated tests. And if you only do manual testing without measuring code coverage, you don't even have an idea if the code is working correctly or not.
Thank you Jayme. Only after your videos I paid attention to a problem with creativity. I realized that I don't have enough energy to come up with new ideas for my family. The worst thing that this problem is hidden, because it feels okay to be exhausted after work, and also it felt like I had enough creativity in personal life. But now then I understand the problem and able to compare I know it was a wrong balance.
Thanks for the feedback. My family suffers when I'm too wrapped up in work. Nobody wants to hang out with someone so exhausted they have literally nothing to give! I've been there. Hope it gets better for you.
@@HealthyDev Thank you. You already helped me. Now I know how software development affects developers. Unfortunately it was not the only issue and I would be happy at one moment to say *we were on the brink of the divorce*. At the same time I still have a chance to say it :)
Chris Athanas (Adventure Driven Development) has a really cool model of how people tend to be Creators, Preservers or Destroyers. The thing is you need to destroy a bit to create. Most large organisations are run by Preserver types, who just want things to continue as they are. Whereas many of us got into tech to create. Understanding this has helped me shift my energy to my own projects, instead of trying to convince Preservers of my good ideas. It goes against their nature to change, even if it's more efficient or better for the customer.
There are so many ways to get creative than I would need 3-4 lives to be able to do all of them. I'm a computer geek and software developer. I get creative by playing a PC strategy game. Play some games in different types of gender of games: driving, adventure, survival, puzzles. Play various types of games in Roblox. I like cooking so get creative by cooking some new type of food. Get creative in activities like drawing and building something. Repair sometimes instead of calling the technician. Then go out swim, travel, go to theater and opera. Have fun with your kids the way they like it.
I'm in the process of recovering from burnout and also transitioning into software development, having been working in construction until recently. This was an important reminder to me that many of the reasons I was/am burned out are industry-agnostic... I am definitely guilty of focusing 100% of my energy (creative or otherwise) on a single _thing_, then getting sick of it and moving onto something else...
Something you left off is seek the other disrupters and senior people on the team. Some places you have to sit back and bite your tongue but if in that situation you want to be looking around.
Realized that directly by a colleague who had to leave the team as project leader when being tutored by him, just to then take over his role. He was too ready to come up with suggestions for the customer..
Sounds familiar. Where do you spend your creativity, job projects or private projects? That's a very thin line. For a long time I had some FOSS projects as my driver of creativity. But after a while, I have realized that in in the FOSS projects you simply get exploited, by people who do not contribute but keep enslaving you for their own needs. Then, for a while, I have kept donating my creativity to the company... which was okay... for a while, but it does not pay off on the long term either. If you are too creative, the old farts keep fighting you. Sometimes they might even be right (esp. since they have some background knowledge which maybe don't) but it's really hard to tell when this has good reasons or just to fight you.
You work to pay the rent, not to be happy. If you need happiness through your work, then you will have to start your own company. That, by the way, is way harder than it looks.
You shoukd just do most possible minimum you can do in a boundary of task tiy have. Is that message you share? I'm glad you can play music, i need feed my director.
I'm a cartoonist and have found that when I'm the most depressed (like after 9/11/2001) drawing cartoons is an effective coping mechanism (I drew 200 political cartoons in 60 days back then).
I hear what you are saying, but at the same time from a corporate perspective, I want to be able to predictably finish my work and log off to enjoy my free time... If my colleagues want to explore creativity but make my work harder, and longer and it all increases the scope of my work, then I would say BIG FAT NO. Right now my company is a bit too creative with tight deadlines, it's toxic and exhausting.
@@rrb79 can’t do that. I’m referring to product and design teams changing UX and product requirements right before deployment because someone decided to get creative at the last minute. I’m not talking about improving technology or pipelines
It kills your passion because it drains your energy on bureaucratic stuff, like tickets, metrics, meetings, approvals. And kills your motivation because it asks you to do immoral things against customers to meet quarterly financial goals.
Tickets, metrics, meetings, approvals are just how orgs work of size greater than about 5. Maybe skip metrics, but the others are like... how do you agree what to do without meeting people?
Man the energy waste on all those things you mentioned is well over 50% of all energy spent. Upper management just keeps seeing productivity go down as more red tape is added to everything by middle management, and the solution is more red tape, which keeps the cycle going. No one at any management level knows whats actually going on because of all the social manoeuvring and radical buy-in to their own ideas. As the employees get more exhausted, trying to pull more productivity out of that 30% available time, mistakes get made anyway. Lots of lessons to be learned. I was confused for a while, but then I heard something interesting. That the manual for sabotage released in ww2 actually looks very similar to corporate culture. That, and everyone's obsession with imitate to win kind of explains all the nonsense. It really seems like trying a new system is the way.
Creativity killing is worse for me. You need every single 3rd party package approved and gate keeped by Missis who have no reason to be fast their jobs let alone approve something without good reason. But I have been creative in using standard library and reinventing the wheel in go or python apart from a few popular packages that are approved. So I guess creativity hasn't been killed totally. And only Microsoft vs code extensions are approved really, and definitely no AI
Stupid question: If you are creative outside of work, how would that affect your creativity inside of work? If, as you say, creativity is a finite resource, wouldn't that mean that being creative outside of work would make you less creative at work?
Utilizing AI tools like Copilot has significantly reduced my risk of burnout. I've stepped back from pouring my creativity into work and seeking out innovative solutions. Now, I simply rely on the language model's output to meet deadlines and enhance productivity metrics. My supervisors are thrilled with the impressive dashboards and reports that showcase our progress. On a personal level, I appreciate this shift because it allows me to channel my creative energy into hobbies I truly enjoy, such as digital art and woodworking, during the weekends. Reclaiming that time for myself has been refreshing, and it feels great to engage in projects that bring me joy and fulfillment outside of work.
Do other people in your job feel threatened by, or try to stop your creativity? Have you given too much of your creative energy to work? What are you doing to get it back?
Join the Thriving Tech Community => thrivingtechnologist.com/community
@@HealthyDev I'm torn between being creative at work and not. I can spin up a full stack site with backend in 8hrs and have beautiful animations, hot reload and docker support... raw and from memory. (Not using react. I made my own template from lots of study and trial and error)
Dunno what to do with it except make my own llc. Working govt contract for income. Want to have a side gig where I can be creative for clients.
Ain't gonna lie, but working many hours on the computer can kill all your emotions not only creativity. Most of the developers are depressed and there is a reason for that - we are not meant to stay sitting 6-8 hours a day in front of monitor solving abstract problems. Unfortunately we have to earn money to live, so you have to do it want it or not. For me the escape is hiking , so that my eyes and soul can take a rest a while from this.
Mine is visiting the zoo and watching the animals with all their different personalities. Very peaceful. Sometimes you catch funny or cute behaviors 😊
Doing exactly the same! No more overtime! Doing 2-3 hr of deep work, 2-3 for stupid meetings then close the laptop and go for cycling, hiking, swimming, photo walks etc. Much more fun is to do electronics, electrical stuff and woodworking.
I can work all day long for months because I make projects I own. The problem is alienation when someone else is taking the bulk of the profits you generate
Try some repetitive, long, boring, mindless job where you can't sit at all for a few months. Trust me, you will learn to appreciate sitting 6-8 solving abstract problems much more
@@cristianocolangelo9920 My side hustle is being mountain guide and if it is possible to do only that to live good life I would do it, but that's not the case :)
I used to really love writing but stopped almost as soon as I became a software engineer. I recently started scheduling 20 - 30 minutes on my lunch break after eating to go off by myself outside and read a chapter in a book, write in my journal, draft some ideas, or just enjoy nature. Learning how to unplug for a few moments during the workday to just be creative and enjoy the creativity around me has started to help me in all areas of life.
Thanks Jayme for sharing your creativity and experience with us.
Great idea👌 need to try the same
I am presently in the "creativity killed by leadership" situation. There isn't much that I see that can be done to change it. After trying and failing for many months, altering my expectations of what I will or will not bring to the table has helped me save some of my creativity for my personal life. Just had to recognize what wasn't in my control, then take control of what was in my control. Not easy, but it is helping me continue to bring my best husband and father to my wife and kids.
Your family will be glad you did! I wish I recognized way, way sooner how I was putting too much of my creative energy into work.
Yup, we’ve all been there. Companies say they value innovation but they really DON’T. Preserver types become managers and they don’t like or want change. See Chris Athanas and Adventure Driven Development 😅
What a great , unspoken topic you bring up. I’ve always strived to find a creative outlet because of how fulfilled it makes me feel. Really love how you connected it to feeling empty inside when you don’t have a way to express your creative side.
Your guitar parts are awesome. They really make your videos stand out, in the positive way. Keep being creative :)
Glad you like them!
@@HealthyDev I think they are really great too. Adds a dope style and vibe to the video and gives you a rockstar vibe. I appreciate them.
@@HealthyDev yeah it is something unique to you and your videos. It is a very original kind of transition in a developer-focused video. It also balances and contrasts the content between the topic of your video and something completely different. The balance is reflecting work/life balance which ties into your channel's theme.
AI (specifically Copilot) has saved me from burning out. I no longer put creative effort into my work or try to innovate. Instead I accept whatever slop the LLM produces and I get my work done within the time box + I make sure the velocity line goes up. Management couldn't be happier with their dashboards and reports. Nowadays I spend my creative energy building hobby projects, digital art, and woodworking projects on the weekend.
Perfect 😅 ❤
Ugh, copilot. Hope I never inherit copilot slop.
@@kristianlavigne8270 lazy. The rest of is have to pick up his slack now.
In my humble 4 decades experience, you can only work effectively with this kind of mentality exhausting problem solving for a 2-3 hour stretch with at least 3-5 hours between, at most 2-3 times per day, normally no more than 6 hours in total (at least after 35y old) 😅
Maybe I'm in rare fortunate position where I can be creative in my work. The problem I'm facing is more along the lines of "acceptable quality" - I would want to set the minimum bar much higher than the rest of the team. It's surprisingly demanding mentally to have to accept the fact that the finished product is of lower quality than you would personally want to output. The customer base seem to be happy with the resulting quality even though I can see random failures every now and then in logs so maybe my personal criteria for a "acceptable quality" is simply much higher than general population.
i care about quality and excellence. i want to hope my teammates do too. i don't see the need to settle, it doesn't help people grow. of course, this is idealistic. but learning and building better software will save time and energy, not just in the long term.
Very respectable. I was once in a week long argumentdisucission with a coworker about how to make comments look the most astetic though. I respect them a great deal for trying to reach perfection, but I personally feel the efficiency curve demands you stop at around 90%, because there comes a point where the energy put in does not reflect the value out. It was surprising how many people were not doing that math, and were just trying to ascend to code god hood. While at the same time, making it impossible for other people to reach quality with their nitpicking, because everyone has a different idea of perfection. Just on top of that, the urge for perfection seems to go hand in hand with using the latest hype train code whatever.
You know what I want? My code to be readable to amateur coders, and to be broken into modules in such a way that it is eternal. It does not need to look like art, or conversely, be so unbelievably advanced that no one can ever read it again. I WANT it to look dumb, not look like every coding pattern having a perfectly orchestrated o**y that will be painted on the ceiling of a church.
Im not saying your like this. Just be careful of the traps that lie that way. Thats all.
@@Elemblue2 i agree with that. i think we work in very different environments though. the last place i was at, it wasn't like trying to go from 90% to something better. the state of things was much lower than that. to be fair, it wasn't the teams fault, it was people long before them, and they inherited and learned from an app that was subpar and learned bad lessons from the beginning. they were all new devs when they joined.
@@Elemblue2 I totally agree about people disagreeing what kind of code is perfect. I'm personally mostly interested in code being clearly understandable and non-fragile. That is, the next developer making changes to it should understand the existing system and if they make mistakes during the implementation, the failure should trigger assert()s during testing instead of silently corrupting user data in production.
I prefer correctly working code to nice looking code. I'd prefer having setup where you can run 24/7 mutation testing (which requires 100% code coverage in automated testing to even start) but my team doesn't see that valueable enough to even try to improve automated testing.
One should consider mutation testing as automated testing of quality of your human designed automated testing. If you cannot do mutation testing, you cannot even know how much your existing tests are missing even if you had 100% code coverage. And most software projects ever made do not even have 100% code coverage for the automated tests.
And if you only do manual testing without measuring code coverage, you don't even have an idea if the code is working correctly or not.
Thank you Jayme. Only after your videos I paid attention to a problem with creativity. I realized that I don't have enough energy to come up with new ideas for my family. The worst thing that this problem is hidden, because it feels okay to be exhausted after work, and also it felt like I had enough creativity in personal life. But now then I understand the problem and able to compare I know it was a wrong balance.
Thanks for the feedback. My family suffers when I'm too wrapped up in work. Nobody wants to hang out with someone so exhausted they have literally nothing to give! I've been there. Hope it gets better for you.
@@HealthyDev Thank you. You already helped me. Now I know how software development affects developers. Unfortunately it was not the only issue and I would be happy at one moment to say *we were on the brink of the divorce*. At the same time I still have a chance to say it :)
@@alekseimenkov8317 oh man, that's scary. Was there too (close to divorce) 7 years ago. Thankfully, things turned around!
Thank you! I work in IT and have been talking with my therapist about this exact topic. Thank you for helping me find the words, much appreciated.
Glad to help, it's a real problem. I work with my clients on this all the time! And it's a learning process for me too.
Chris Athanas (Adventure Driven Development) has a really cool model of how people tend to be Creators, Preservers or Destroyers. The thing is you need to destroy a bit to create. Most large organisations are run by Preserver types, who just want things to continue as they are. Whereas many of us got into tech to create.
Understanding this has helped me shift my energy to my own projects, instead of trying to convince Preservers of my good ideas. It goes against their nature to change, even if it's more efficient or better for the customer.
I had no idea Chris had a channel! Awesome. Thanks for making me aware. 🙌
There are so many ways to get creative than I would need 3-4 lives to be able to do all of them.
I'm a computer geek and software developer. I get creative by playing a PC strategy game. Play some games in different types of gender of games: driving, adventure, survival, puzzles. Play various types of games in Roblox.
I like cooking so get creative by cooking some new type of food. Get creative in activities like drawing and building something. Repair sometimes instead of calling the technician.
Then go out swim, travel, go to theater and opera. Have fun with your kids the way they like it.
Intellectual property ownership is key. Having you own project repo contractually protected from becoming the company's IP is indispensable.
Thank you so much! I was a musician in my youth too. And I had similar experiences working in education and social services.
This is gold Jayme.
I'm in the process of recovering from burnout and also transitioning into software development, having been working in construction until recently.
This was an important reminder to me that many of the reasons I was/am burned out are industry-agnostic...
I am definitely guilty of focusing 100% of my energy (creative or otherwise) on a single _thing_, then getting sick of it and moving onto something else...
You picked the worst industry to fight burnout. There is way more creativity in construction than there is in coding.
Personally I just took out all the emotions from projects at work, my goal is to just get things done in a way that they won't haunt me in the future.
After 15 years in tech. The corporate world killed my soul and sucked out energy and soul.
0:15 bingo thats where I am
Big truths going on here 🔥
Something you left off is seek the other disrupters and senior people on the team. Some places you have to sit back and bite your tongue but if in that situation you want to be looking around.
Can you talk about forced stacked ranking in Software companies please.
I'm not sure what there is to say. It sucks, and companies that do it aren't really motivated to change since they're in control.
In my experience, so far, it depends on who your with. My current role completely killed it.
Before I watch the video: YES
red tape, 100 stakeholders, service now tickets, smh
Realized that directly by a colleague who had to leave the team as project leader when being tutored by him, just to then take over his role. He was too ready to come up with suggestions for the customer..
Sounds familiar. Where do you spend your creativity, job projects or private projects? That's a very thin line. For a long time I had some FOSS projects as my driver of creativity. But after a while, I have realized that in in the FOSS projects you simply get exploited, by people who do not contribute but keep enslaving you for their own needs. Then, for a while, I have kept donating my creativity to the company... which was okay... for a while, but it does not pay off on the long term either. If you are too creative, the old farts keep fighting you. Sometimes they might even be right (esp. since they have some background knowledge which maybe don't) but it's really hard to tell when this has good reasons or just to fight you.
You work to pay the rent, not to be happy. If you need happiness through your work, then you will have to start your own company. That, by the way, is way harder than it looks.
You shoukd just do most possible minimum you can do in a boundary of task tiy have. Is that message you share? I'm glad you can play music, i need feed my director.
I hope iln not counted as ai bot, new reality
I believe leadership take a big part of this problem, if the leadership do not encourage people, it will definitely ill the creativity
Even worse is when leadership **say** they promote creativity, then stand in the way of it when it happens!
I play ukulele and practice motogymkhana
I actually enjoy when you play guitar 🙌
Thanks! It's a divisive issue to be sure, but glad some of y'all enjoy it hehe.
My creativity and perfectionism makes me happy being 333rd giving like to this video)
🤣
I used to hate guitar didies in the interim but they have become good didies recently.
I'm a cartoonist and have found that when I'm the most depressed (like after 9/11/2001) drawing cartoons is an effective coping mechanism (I drew 200 political cartoons in 60 days back then).
A lot of people hated the cartoons at the time, saying "now is not the time". By 2006 everyone hated Bush.
I hear what you are saying, but at the same time from a corporate perspective, I want to be able to predictably finish my work and log off to enjoy my free time... If my colleagues want to explore creativity but make my work harder, and longer and it all increases the scope of my work, then I would say BIG FAT NO. Right now my company is a bit too creative with tight deadlines, it's toxic and exhausting.
That is because you don't like your work, if you did, you would probably enjoy to stay a little bit more to make things better.
Care to share which awesome company is that😂?
@@rrb79 can’t do that. I’m referring to product and design teams changing UX and product requirements right before deployment because someone decided to get creative at the last minute. I’m not talking about improving technology or pipelines
@@scotty_p15 fair enough...finding the balance between creativity and disruption is a fine balance. That sounds like the other end of the spectrum.
It kills your passion because it drains your energy on bureaucratic stuff, like tickets, metrics, meetings, approvals.
And kills your motivation because it asks you to do immoral things against customers to meet quarterly financial goals.
Tickets, metrics, meetings, approvals are just how orgs work of size greater than about 5. Maybe skip metrics, but the others are like... how do you agree what to do without meeting people?
Man the energy waste on all those things you mentioned is well over 50% of all energy spent. Upper management just keeps seeing productivity go down as more red tape is added to everything by middle management, and the solution is more red tape, which keeps the cycle going. No one at any management level knows whats actually going on because of all the social manoeuvring and radical buy-in to their own ideas. As the employees get more exhausted, trying to pull more productivity out of that 30% available time, mistakes get made anyway.
Lots of lessons to be learned. I was confused for a while, but then I heard something interesting. That the manual for sabotage released in ww2 actually looks very similar to corporate culture. That, and everyone's obsession with imitate to win kind of explains all the nonsense. It really seems like trying a new system is the way.
Creativity killing is worse for me. You need every single 3rd party package approved and gate keeped by Missis who have no reason to be fast their jobs let alone approve something without good reason.
But I have been creative in using standard library and reinventing the wheel in go or python apart from a few popular packages that are approved.
So I guess creativity hasn't been killed totally.
And only Microsoft vs code extensions are approved really, and definitely no AI
Stupid question: If you are creative outside of work, how would that affect your creativity inside of work?
If, as you say, creativity is a finite resource, wouldn't that mean that being creative outside of work would make you less creative at work?
I don't believe creativity is a finite resource, but the energy to do it is. Does that make sense?
@HealthyDev my bad. Thanks, makes complete sense!
Me rn :(
Thriving technologist!? Name change?
Yessir! I announced it back in May right before in case you're curious why:
ua-cam.com/video/V1hMiP9sczw/v-deo.html
I like your diddies.
Utilizing AI tools like Copilot has significantly reduced my risk of burnout. I've stepped back from pouring my creativity into work and seeking out innovative solutions. Now, I simply rely on the language model's output to meet deadlines and enhance productivity metrics. My supervisors are thrilled with the impressive dashboards and reports that showcase our progress.
On a personal level, I appreciate this shift because it allows me to channel my creative energy into hobbies I truly enjoy, such as digital art and woodworking, during the weekends. Reclaiming that time for myself has been refreshing, and it feels great to engage in projects that bring me joy and fulfillment outside of work.
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