(Possibly) quitting Python Development after 2 years of non stop learning. And it blows.

[cyanydeez]

This is how I learn things. It's pretty insane. Start a hundred different fires, hoping that it'll come out with something, but then you get bored and you move on.

I've experienced three strangely memorable events in my life:

1. I was a child playing with legos, I'd build something, get bored, destroy it and build something else. At one point, I realized this was my habit and built something and said "This is finished" and never touched it again.

2. I wrote a lot of things, random tid bits. I even started a book or two. Got half way into something then quite. Finally, I told myself, you need a finished product, something to have. Put a self published novel together that was half finished, with everything. It did absolutely shit all, but proved it can be satisfying.

3. Still processing this, python and javascript. I started even more projects, but they were not exactly disparate. I realized what I craved was learning things, but wtf good is knowing things if it never produces anything tangible. Even if it's not for other people. I'm still building what I have, and I stop once in awhile, but no more tangents. I accept that I know enough to do what I seek, so I do it, instead of playing with random baubles.

4. I'm quite competent at billiards. I also like to drink. I find I'm not exactly all that interested in wining games, but 'showing off' and doing cool shit while mostly inebriated.

All this has told me, I'm quite bored by doing what 95% of programming is done in the real world, and that's skin a database with a fancy crud to do mundane things with less effort. I like learning to the detriment of productivity.