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a central challenge I face in software and in life is the fact that I find creating thrilling, but maintaining tedious. starting a new project? fun! fixing bugs in an old project that other people use? tedious... setting up a new laptop? fun! tending to my laptop's failing battery? tedious...

creating things is fun, but maintaining things is incredibly useful, I would argue more useful than creating in the first place. I'm trying to be better about finding joy in maintenance.

byRamsey Nasser @nasser@merveilles.town • posted archived copycurrent

This is deep. I do feel capitalism plays a role into this (from a social aspect) where the act of getting something new or doing something semi-novel is celebrated but having to keep what you want/need around is slightly antithetical to it so we're conditioned to be disgusted about it. Not to ship/praise the company, but after getting a Framework laptop, though slightly constrained on the tweaking, I pop it open like once a week just to glance at the parts and appreciate the craftsmanship that's gone into it. There's definitely a cultural thing to just appreciating what we have that's missing.

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