Burnout recovery leave, day 5:
A few days without any goals was good

I played some games until I stopped enjoying them. I wrote a diary to /dev/null. I ate the plums that were in the refrigerator.

High allostatic load sucks, but guess who has a resting heart rate under 50 again?

baseball pitch windup

What if

the "don't ever comment in code thing"

is mostly functioning as a strategic defense inside of a field with a climate that's so chilly that every disclosure of your thinking to anyone else just becomes a psychological attack vector

and people just have to come up with "it magically makes your code better to do this" explanations to justify it

sprints away