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Addiction. From the endless edit-compile-test cycles.

Dopamine circuits go completely berserk.

I recently changed over to management after being a principal engineer. I miss my regular dopamine hits. Now feedback can take weeks, months, or longer. It is a change for sure.

That's the the good stuff right there though.

Addiction, by definition, causes problems in other areas.

Anything, in excess.

But, it seems that winning in life is figuring out how to get healthy addictions (to work, exercising, good diet, helping other people).

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