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The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency.
You rename a batch of files with a ten-line Python script, or you alias a common git command to shave off two keystrokes. I can see the patterns that I wish I couldn’t, find oversights that I can attribute to a certain understanding (or the lack thereof) of a certain concept and I can hear what has been echoing in the head of the computer illiterate person who conjured the program I have to debug. Like Camus’ Sisyphus, we are condemned to push the boulder of our own systems uphill—one fix, one refactor, one script at a time.
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