I don't think poker is good for people either. The goal of poker is to win, taking money from other players by exploiting their weaknesses. It's a training ground to become ruthless, unempathetic, and deceptive.
Humbled to see the new official timeline of physics: Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and now... Grok in 2025 claiming a single bit-flip explains life, the universe, and everything. What a time to be alive.
Software development is rarely a solo activity. You will need to communicate with other developers, product managers, designers, and non-technical stakeholders.
The "Participatory Interface Theory" is not a scientific theory. It is a work of science fiction masquerading as physics. It uses the following techniques to create an illusion of credibility:
Poetic Language: Replaces rigorous explanation with evocative metaphors.
Jargon Salad: Mixes terms from physics, computer science, and philosophy to sound profound.
Reverse-Engineering: Builds a complex model designed to reproduce a known anomaly (MOND) and presents this as a success.
The "One Falsifiable Prediction" Gambit: Creates a single, specific (but logically weak) prediction to gain the appearance of being scientific, while ignoring a mountain of contradictory evidence.
While the vision it presents is beautiful and thought-provoking, it has no demonstrable connection to reality.
I built my own recurring task manager, Perennial Task, to overcome the limitations I faced with TaskWarrior. Both are open source, so it's not something I was paying for.
Recently I've been working on a project I call term-to-svg. It's a command-line tool that converts terminal session recordings into animated SVG images.