When I look at where I'm at today, it's impossible not to feel profoundly lucky. I'm married to a super-hip lit-craft goddess, I work for a company full of smart people I genuinely like, I enjoy the work I do (from the comfort of my home, most days), and I have cookies.

That's right. Cookies.

The trick, though, is that my work has slowly evolved from "Go to the office, code, come home" to "Wake up, work on stuff you enjoy, fall asleep." That's awesome in a lot of ways, but it also means that I've had to build new skills to keep life sane. Come evening, it's often tough to figure out how the transition from "work coding" to "play coding" happens, precisely -- let along the transition from "coding" to "family, reading, kittens, etc."  Continue reading...