I really think we’ll discover that programming is toxic for the brain. Mechanisms:
- Intense loss of memory, inability to remember names and faces, since everything can be written down all the time,
- Periods of flow interrupted by compilation time, change of topic (looking at the web), within a lot of stress (want to deliver the feature, excited to set up the architecture),
- Long hours working, sometimes into the night, thus grave loss of sleep,
- Sedentary intellectual-only work, no use of the body, and more importantly no use of facial features, no smile, no talking for hours and even years long.
- Eventually, social networks top up all those with intense context-switching and dopamine addiction,
Leading to early onset of Alzheimer, or, as we’ll call it, Eastbound Disease.
Of course that doesn’t have to be your fate! But programming takes you into that slippery slope very easily.
To anyone downloading: Please argument too, because I don’t understand, thank you.
Since nobody answered you: intriguing argument but that's not a byproduct of programming but of alienation. You don't have to live this way even if you love programming.
- Intense loss of memory, inability to remember names and faces, since everything can be written down all the time,
- Periods of flow interrupted by compilation time, change of topic (looking at the web), within a lot of stress (want to deliver the feature, excited to set up the architecture),
- Long hours working, sometimes into the night, thus grave loss of sleep,
- Sedentary intellectual-only work, no use of the body, and more importantly no use of facial features, no smile, no talking for hours and even years long.
- Eventually, social networks top up all those with intense context-switching and dopamine addiction,
Leading to early onset of Alzheimer, or, as we’ll call it, Eastbound Disease.
Of course that doesn’t have to be your fate! But programming takes you into that slippery slope very easily.
To anyone downloading: Please argument too, because I don’t understand, thank you.