I've been diving for years and I learned that the deeper you go, there is a higher chance some of equipment can malfunction. Because of that I have to always plan or consider some backup solution. And that started to reflect on my daily activities - e.g. when I book a flight or a route, I put everything on paper, just in case all my devices die (which happened before).

Incels are lonely first, then addicted to the screen. It’s a self-feeding relationship but a balanced teen will always have someone reaching out, while the incel is lonely. The addiction to the screen comes because there is a void (lots of interesting social studies here).

By the way, public announcement: Don’t forget to ring up your relatives, knock on your neighbor’s door and spend some time doing public service talking to weird people (after evaluating the risk). It goes a long way in releasing tensions.

"used to" - did you stop paragliding? I'm a mid - P3 now.

Not OP, but I'll take a swing at this. I suspect that programming causes people to view the world as something which can be controlled with algorithms, and problems solved with algorithms.

We joke about it on HN pretty regularly, how it seems like programmers have the most hubris of anyone, always thinking every problem can be neatly solved with a bit of logic.

A tendency to systematize, formalize, and delegate/abstract/automate portions (or entirety) of problems IMO.

A tendency to analyze and solve problems rationally. Even if unfortunately it is not at all a rational problem at the time.

A tendency to (successfully) deep dive in a recursive fashion on problems. Ex: contractor is doing something weird, talk to the city inspector. City inspector refers to building code. Read building code. Work with contractor to bring up to code, or sic the appropriate regulatory authority on them.

Etc.

Similar to debugging something weird in someone else’s backend.

I've thought about this a lot.

Short version, any sufficiently complex profession will have problems and associated solutions analogous to problems and solutions outside its domain. Therefore, the more deeply one understands a complex profession of that nature, the more likely one is to successfully apply lessons from that professional domain to problems outside it. Programming of course has peculiarities in that regard which color the kind of solutions one comes up with, eg a preoccupation with process and systems, linguistics, etc.

For the long version you can check out my book on the subject, shameless plug: https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Programming-Christopher-Henni...

I spend a lot of my life 'optimizing' processes. I got that from programming (about 30 years ago)...if I'm unloading the dishwasher, I'm stacking bowls and grabbing the plates because they're in the same cabinet and I can put away more dishes in fewer steps. I'll pick up the cutting boards and measuring cups because they're in adjacent cabinets...

Doing things systematically. Making use of any information as soon as it's available to minimize the number of decisions that have to be made at once. Organizing stuff into small, composable units.

To contradict a sibling comment, I do not believe the world can be controlled, or that algorithms are a solution to everything. One important element of mastering programming (a world largely of pure logic) is to recognize how it differs from our human world.