And ambitious projects are by definition close to the limits of your capacity. A small decrease in morale is enough to kill them off.

It takes quite a bit of time to get used to the idea that more thinking and less typing is a blessing rather than a curse. You don't stop typing for minutes at a time because you're not being productive. You stop typing because Haskell is incredibly expre

It's pretty easy to say what kinds of problems are not interesting: those where instead of solving a few big, clear, problems, you have to solve a lot of nasty little ones. The distinguishing feature of nasty little problems is that you don't learn anythi