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> GitHub dispenses a lot of dopamine and it makes me change how I work to get those nice little green squares.

Yerwhat? This is not remotely my experience with GitHub at all. I never look at my green squares. In fact I rarely even look at anyone's profile page (why would I?)

I use GitHub every day and it has never once occurred to me that anyone could think of GitHub as addictive/gamified or a "dopamine dispenser".

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If the green squares were sufficient to give me a dopamine hit, my half-abandoned repos with stars, pull requests, and conversations would be a much higher priority in my life.

As it stands, responding to user requests on Github just feels exactly like work.

Yeah, if Github squares are affecting your health, a better policy is self-control. Otherwise your next issue might be unit tests displaying green checkmarks and repos showing coverage percentages.

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