Every day when I wake up, I remember that there is a list with more than 400 tasks waiting. Those are hard problems that I have to solve. I have to organize chaos, service demanding customers, provide perfection-as-a-service.
It makes me feel as if there is an evil monster waiting for me, inside the computer.
Every morning, my brain is causing me distress, trying to get me to avoid the monster. It makes me tired. Gives me boredom. Sadness. Despair.
Almost everyone I know does the other thing. They get on social media to watch short 10 second videos of silly cats and people who fail to park their cars. They do that so often that they cannot tolerate boredom at all anymore.
They have become so weak mentally that they have to watch silly videos even in the restroom. They can't face the monster. They are too scared of it. They let it eat their life away. Losing time they can never get back.
But I've found the monster's weak spot. His cryptonite. He is scared to death of the sound of keyboards. As soon as I open my terminal and start typing, it runs away.
Every. Single. Day.
