> "To return to the question I posed at the beginning of this essay, that last point is one of the reasons I don't make Dragons Abound available and haven't tried to monetize it. Doing either of those things would be a distraction from what I consider the important work - keeping myself happy with interesting challenges and opportunities for personal growth."

Not sure I understand how monetizing it or open-sourcing it would necessarily turn it into a distraction... Wouldn't that depend more on whether or not you allowed maintenance, support, etc., to become a distraction?