A programmer’s loss of identity

As an aside, I received a lot of positive feedback on that essay, thank you! (And I’m sorry that I still haven’t responded to some of you. My inbox is a disaster for a variety of reasons.) The wild thing is that I received zero negative feedback. My pet theory is that it was simply too long and nuanced for casual drive-by critics and that anyone who stuck with it did so because they found something that resonated. What you’re reading now is much shorter and I guess I