Yesterday I was on the European Lisp Symposium, listening to the talk about Clasp and CANDO. Christian Schafmeister, who is a <i>chemist</i>, basically wrote his own Common Lisp implementation with focus on speed and C++ interop to have a base to run a molecule design tool on - because no available software was up to the task he&#x27;s doing (designing stuff like water filters out of molecules)[0].<p>What it made me realize is that... I need to find myself <i>something else</i> to do than programming. Something else to learn about in greater detail. There are many, many interesting problems out there to solve, but you have to know about them first. Programming is great as a support speciality, if you have another one to support it. Right now the only thing I&#x27;m specialized in is making better tools for developers. Which we&#x27;re in need of, true, but even more so are other domains.<p>[0] - Yesterday&#x27;s talk should be up soon; in the meantime, here&#x27;s his talk from last year at Google: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0rSMt1pAlbE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0rSMt1pAlbE</a>.