Title: At 13-20 years old, I was very curious and passionate about computers. I spent hours learning computer hacking and exploiting with buffer overflows, taught myself C, C++, linux, python, ... I did a lot of side projects in my 18s.<p>Now I&#x27;m 28 years old, working at a FAANG as a software engineer. It&#x27;s been a couple of years that I don&#x27;t have the same curiosity and passion to learn new technical things, outside of work, as I did before. I value and like learning new stuff in my day-to-day job, but thinking about learning a new programming language in my free time does not make me excited anymore.<p>Is this normal, possibly due to aging for some people? Or is it because all my curiosities have been solved after undergrad, or could it be a symptom of chronic depression as I pretty much don&#x27;t have craving for anything anymore?
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