Title: Hi HN,<p>I&#x27;m a software dev with almost 10 years experience, and not a single day in the last 10 years has gone by without me feeling the pressure to work, learn something new, or build something.  I feel like I should be programming all the time, and if I&#x27;m not, I&#x27;m wasting my time &#x2F; missing out &#x2F; not progressing.<p>It&#x27;s driving me insane.  It is sucking the joy out of life.<p>I need to learn how to truly disconnect from work, so that I can recharge.  I need to learn how to drop this feeling, this heavy weight on my shoulders, that I&#x27;m not a good developer, and that I need to work more to get better.<p>The problem is that the reality of our field is such that:<p>a)  There is a lot of opportunity
b)  There are a lot of really smart people, doing very cool things, capturing that opportunity.
c)  If you aren&#x27;t learning, or getting better at the craft, then you&#x27;re falling behind, becoming irrelevant, and certainly you aren&#x27;t going to make anything of significance.<p>How do you return to the joy of the craft?  How do you forget about the outcome, and learn to love programming again?
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