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I've been surprised at being able to draw parallels between programming and music performance, writing and more. I think there's plenty in common at a high level when working on a creative project of any kind, such as your attitude to improvement, dealing with setbacks, analysing results, and the joy of when it all comes together!

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OTOH humans are wired to find patterns, existent or imaginary if it comes to that.

Perhaps more important is the act itself of pondering your occupation - doing it long enough is bound to yield insights.

Yes. The point of this article is not that you can learn something about programming by doing stand up comedy. You cannot. The point is that you can learn something about programming (by doing it) and make it memorable via analogy. In this case the analogy is comedy, but the actual topic does not really matter.

Exactly.

Zoom out far enough and any activity can have parallels to programming. Almost every activity requires concentration, planning, fear of failure, etc.

Zoom in close enough and programming in Go is nothing like programming in JavaScript.

It's all perspective.

Then you'll love Extempore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY1FSsUV-8c

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