Researchers found that those who'd spent 15 minutes walking ended up significantly happier than those who’d spent 15 minutes waiting.
Busyness contributes to happiness even when you think you’d prefer to be idle.
A recent study has suggested that there really is such a thing as too much free time
– and that our subjective well being actually begins to drop if we have more than five hours of it in a day.
As a dev if you feel I dont know what to do, you don't even realize that idleness is killing your mental state & making you unhappy
Conclusion
To recap, the universe has been fundamentally altered by this revelation.
So dont stay idle for longer time,
Dont stay longer in dark places for longer time
Avoid procrastination
Otherwise your happiness will drop to 0
Linux is the underdog that's gonna steal the show
Nowdays Linux can be easily installed on
1. Windows -> WSL
2. Android Mobile -> Termux, proot-distro
3. Cloud -> Google cloud shell
4. VM -> virtualbox
Too much procrastination because idleness?? dont want to choose either options??
Go investigate the mysterious device lurking in the corner,
hint: it has blinking lights, and check if it supports OpenWrt and install it.
Most devs will go to random OTT/YT or keep on scrolling those shorts/reels
that is also killing your mental state & you dont even realize it is continuously disturbing you.
Technology is saving you from profound levels of boredom and its a problem
devs should keep themselves idle for sometime but no longer than 5 hours,
software development is 80% thinking and 20% summoning those digital spirits with your keyboard prowess
Don't keep yourself busy watching that ott or listening to that music
Just do nothing for sometime, just breathe, live in present,
understand your surrounding in detailed manner,
After sometime your mind will be filled with void
Let it happen, dont label it as boredom.
after random interval your mind will wakeup from deep sleep state and you will feel productive
and when you are at that state you can do the impossible. go do that impossible thing now!
PS: The author is not a software engineer, he is computer scientist
