I do like to see the historic use of non-conformist.
Non-conformists and free thinkers/ non-theists teaming up has produced some great outcomes. Think of the popular non-conformist support for Jefferson & Madison in VA in 1786.
The idea of baptists handing out copies of common sense has always had a certain beauty to it.
I love developing clever algorithms and writing elegant code. It's a hobby of mine and it makes me happy.
I love shipping tangible products because it makes others happy and makes me money.
Do what you love for work and you'll never love anything again.
Do what you love for a hobby and keep it pure.
Don't let either be your identity, you only diminish yourself and grow old in the doing.
I picked up inline skating at ~39, I realized that for all my cycling and lifting my balance and propreoception was crap and skiing once a year wasn't going to solve that problem.
I slapped on all the padding I could and it took me nearly a year to get my bodyweight outside of my feet and really carve at high speed. Why? Because my flexibility, strength and muscle activation all had weird gaps.
I ended up getting a slackboard as well about a year in.
I am basically impossible to knock over now, I can wear sperrys on ice, my legs and core are incredibly strong in a way lifting heavy never accomplished, I no longer have weird little muscle pains, all the muscles are strong.
When cycling I used to have occasional knee pain in my left exterior of my knee. No longer.
I've found 3 fast stretches to do after... I mean, rollerblading is basically yoga (which I find boring) at 15mph with pebbles and no ability to bail, it's fucking awesome and pretty damn hard.
I wear all the pads and it's glorious, I'm ~40 and I haven't felt this athletic since my late 20s.
I was getting sore before I started, that creeping old man shit, now I skate between 3 and 30 miles a week and its great. I skiied 3 days straight at 11k ft elevation and had no muscle soreness and no multi day fade, it was unreal.
Yeah, this is 100% an instant classic in the lies programmers believe series.
How long have we had browser auto complete for addresses? A long time, I assume it's devs like this one who just can't be bothered to support it and have to pretend their flawed approach is somehow faster than literal auto complete.