Last night, my other half said, "Are you on that hacker news again? If you spent as much time on your software as that web site, you'd be done already."
Got me to thinking. I DO spend a lot of time here lately. But I've also gotten a lot of work done. Yesterday was a great day, with several major breakthroughs and lots of new code. Yet I was here off and on all day long. I can't explain it. It seems like it's the opposite of what you'd expect.
The only explanations I can think of is that reading and discussing interesting stuff here gets my juices flowing, almost like "stretching" before the real workout. Maybe being among others who are achieving the same things as me keeps me going. Also, it tempers the loneliness. Anyone else with similar experience?