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How To Always End Your Day On A Positive Note As A Programmer
There’s one or the other bad news every day. Either some news you’ve seen on the interwebs or some tough customer feedback at work.
If you’re not careful, cynicism will become a daily part of your life because you are in an environment that typically only highlights what’s wrong instead of celebrating the small wins.
As a programmer or a software engineer, you need to protect your morale by continuing to chip away daily, learning new things and having a sense of accomplishment each day.
If you do this on a continual basis, the momentum it creates over time is incredible. Irrespective of what’s happening in the outside world, your inner core is always enriched.
I share 3 ways in which I try to achieve this.
1. End the day by solving a programming challenge
The easiest way is to pick a challenge each day, after work, and solve it.
The challenge should ideally be at the edges of <what you currently know> so that whilst there are some elements of the challenge that you know how to solve/approach, there are other elements in the challenge that will…
