Your universe is what you make of it.

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I'm trying not to go over the copy of Richard Bach's Illusions I bought for someone recently with a pencil and speed mail it up to her. I finally broke down and bought my own hardcover not to be lent out. It's used and like it seems every copy I have ever run across has a hand written inscription in the front to someone. Like the one I received. I'

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Software engineering is, by definition, not about manifesting ideas into physical form. You are manifesting ideas into an abstract thing that makes money for random people you don't care about by means you don't really understand.

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Also: I'm sorry if this upset you. It's... a thing I need to deal with. I don't want to make it anyone else's problem, and I know this is not the time to make any sort of change. But I need to get through the next few months, years, etc, somehow, and I don't want to have to hide it from everyone else around me.

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It depends. I wrote an abstract thing that made 12000 people's lives a little easier at a campground in PA. For some reason they have not replaced the front end with Ruby and the back end with Excel, and Word with email merge. It's humbling to still have a student project running 11 years later

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Having challenging concepts placed in front of me makes me think. It also makes me realize where I came from and where I could still be.

It's not something you need to apologize for. I feel that his advice of telling you "It is what it is," is defeatist at the best, possibly lethal at the worst.

"I know this is not the time to make any sort of change." How so? This is not working. You have the flexibility to make a change.