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Starting to learn about art (aka going to Museums, art galleries, reading art books). It soothes my soul. By far the most intellectual challenging activity I've ever done.
Could you recommend some introductory books? I've always felt bad not having clue about art.
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Agree with this. Recently stopped (around 6 month ago), games just look boring now and they waste so much of you're time.
I don't even try to play multiplayer games anymore, as within moments I get the feeling of time wasted. I do however, from time to time, play single-player games (like Portal, or Modern Warfare series, or more recently, Bioshock) for their artistic / story value. The best games have stories much better and deeper than most of the movies, so I find them important intellectually and artisticly.
And if you like puzzles, there's spacechem.
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Having just quit my job for a contractor role in London, I am so glad to see this here.
Also a Londoner here and would love to go into contracting sometime in the not too distant future. Please keep us updated on progress
Programming: Focussing on the end product at least as much as technical elegance.
Programming: Not caring about trends. I've realized I can learn pretty much anything on demand. So I find interesting problems and try to solve them, rather than spend alot of time learning frameworks and languages and hope to apply them. And I've found learning on demand for real problems causes me to learn In a way that sticks better too.
Programming: Working on side projects that use technology I want to work with. It gets out that urge to do your own thing and employers love to see your side projects.
Programming: Committing to the idea that ideas must, must, must be expressed cleanly.
Programming: Learning Node. It got me excited about development again, which caused me to get out and meet other developers in my community. I was so enamored with it that I quit my day job in order to have more time to learn Node and many other new web technologies. As a bonus, I used the stuff I learned in that time to get a new job that I like more and make nearly twice the income at.