In my case it was hypothyroidism. See a doctor.
Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?
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Re: Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?
#292Yes went through this. Early 30s my dad died, completely changed my view on what I was doing. He was self employed and successful. I started to hate working for someone else. I really started to dislike being a developer. Kept trying to find a way out. Was depressed that being a Dev eats my life, all free time I felt I should be learning technologies Anyway fast forward nearly a decade and I'm really happy in my job.…
Maybe what happened is that once you become good at being a developer, you derived satisfaction from that even if you were working for someone else, or maybe you thought your "passion" was elsewhere. This is the thesis of Cal Newport's book "So Good They Can’t Ignore You", summary here: https://fourminutebooks.com/so-good-they-cant-ignore-you-sum...
I think you have a point here, summary book marked thanks for this.
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#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you describe the vue 3 part more? As an outsider it just looks for me they just added another api with a different style, so people can choose what they like.
The official router and store were not ready when they released Vue 3, even kind of still not, and the store is moving to a new lib. Also there's now two competing APIs. The new one that they want you to use, and the old one that people like better. Also a lot of time your objects are actually proxies, which I'm sure there's good reason for but that's kind of annoying (personal opinion).
I dislike dealing with proxy objects because you have to serialize and unserialize to turn it into what it always was.
Re: Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a strong dislike of the modern focus on personal measurement and metrics. It implies a sort of mechanistic existence. It’s also often connected to a focus on productivity optimization, which given that the OP may be suffering from burnout, seems like it might be the wrong direction. My advice to OP: whether it’s burnout or not (and it does sound like it), you aren’t liking what you’re doing right now, so if yo…
If I could upvote your comment twice, I would. Measurement has become the be all and end all, and it's useful of course. But it's easy to make the mistake that you've captured the whole of something on your graph, or spreadsheet, and usually that is far from the case. The spirit of a thing is not easily captured.
I'll give him one on your behalf.
Re: Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?
#295Your problem is very simple: you are working on bullshit. Across your entire description of your situation you never once mentioned what it is you are actually working on but called out the income you hit and frameworks you are playing with. I humbly submit that your problem is that you have lost the plot. Hate to break it to you chief but the libraries and frameworks and techniques you use to work are not the point.…
Who cares what you build for someone else. Playing with frameworks and salary bumps can be fun.
You know what's not fun? Meetings.. caring about what you build will get you into many meetings.
Re: Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?
#296I hate engaging in surrogate activities which are only abstractly related to the things I need to survive. Even though I understand it's necessary due to the sophistication of manufacturing and the economies of scale of it all, it's mentally destructive. The worst part of software development for me is knowing that all of my work will eventually be thrown away or useless soon. I stopped caring about my work completel…
I agree about stop caring about my current work. I'm in my 50's and I was working for 30 years as CIO and programming in MUMPS, taking care about systems and networking.
Now, my employers put me in SAP support without any formation.
So hard and bored. I feel so difficult to learn this ..when in the past learning new things was easy for me if they were interesting.
Re: Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?
#297Your problem is very simple: you are working on bullshit. Across your entire description of your situation you never once mentioned what it is you are actually working on but called out the income you hit and frameworks you are playing with. I humbly submit that your problem is that you have lost the plot. Hate to break it to you chief but the libraries and frameworks and techniques you use to work are not the point.…
> Build something people want Ok, what if instead of yet another one "UberEats for dog treats" I want to build a novel rejuvenation therapy. Or a platform for building such therapies. What do I click, where do I sign? t. big tech worker
Something that doesn't exist? You build it.
Something that you know of you check similiar companies.
If you are just browsing for ideas visit angelist.
If you want a great job you have to search. If you don't want to search you'll apply to places you know like big tech.
Another piece of advice is to get involved outside of work and you will be first to hear about the interesting positions.
Re: Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?
#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
One look at the population pyramids of the developed world [1] is enough to conclude that a systemic shift is underway, and the old social order, at least in its current form, is doomed to be upended. The logic of dependency ratio is hard, you can't circumvent it unless you really do deliver widespread automation of labor, including social service labor. And even then you have obvious concerns of EROEI and "Labor Ret…
Western Europe population is only 2.5% of the total world population
Inverted population pyramids are forming almost everywhere, excluding Africa for now. If you read this 18 year old book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon%27s_New_Map you will see that it wasn't an unexpected development for the policymakers.
Re: Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?
#299I'll pile on to the burnout suggestion with my own personal solution to how I fixed that problem. I'm early 40s, started coding around 13 or so, so it's been 30 years of software for me. About ten years ago after living in the web programming world for a few years I got kind of the same feeling you have. I missed my forms and windows app development, so I went to another company doing what I remembered enjoying. You…
Thanks for sharing. I've been in the "wane" stage recently and your story gave me some things to consider.
Just remember the golden rule about advice (this advice included) is that it's all relative to one's own personal circumstance. What may work for me may not for you and that doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong or there's anything wrong with you or your approach.
If we could solve problems like motivation, drive, and perspective with a wiki or a readme.md file, we'd all have it bookmarked. Life's a learning experience, and unfortunately we all need different curriculum.
Re: Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?
#300Your problem is very simple: you are working on bullshit. Across your entire description of your situation you never once mentioned what it is you are actually working on but called out the income you hit and frameworks you are playing with. I humbly submit that your problem is that you have lost the plot. Hate to break it to you chief but the libraries and frameworks and techniques you use to work are not the point.…
Yup. Nailed it.
IMO the people calling this "burnout" have no idea what they are talking about.
Calling it burnout assumes you're working too hard and if you just rest a bit then come back to do the same bullshit work it will be ok.