I guess I have read this already, but did not remember it very much. Halfway through, I thought it was written by James Mickens. So, if you liked this, you might also like Mickens' essays like The Night Watch <http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatch.... All should be available at https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens And they are not only very funny, but also insightful.

> All programmers are forcing their brains to do things brains were never meant to do in a situation they can never make better, ten to fifteen hours a day, five to seven days a week, and every one of them is slowly going mad.

Yeah, this resonates. I've got in trouble with my wife more than once for being in "code mode" when I'm working and something happens, it seems to turn off my basic empathy for some reason. Programming changes people.