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		lovecg on Aug 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase For me it was the profound perspective shift from being a leaf node of a tree so to speak to becoming just one link in a long chain. It tends to relax the do-or-die drive quite a bit.

ambicapter on Aug 3, 2023 [–]

Maybe the do-or-die drive is relaxed because you (or your body) realizes that you've fulfilled your biological purpose and passed on your genes?

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