This philosophy can be applied for everything and unfortunately - for me - it's incredibly poisonous, I was very passionate about programming, coding, about this unique property of it that one can bring to life some abstract idea, concept that was only existing as thoughts
Unfortunately "not worth the trouble" mantra infected me and now I'm unable to do anything, most ideas are dismissed easily.
Want to write some kind of software? Makes no sense, it's probably written already and if not then will be replicated in the blink of an eye by more resourceful entity if it's worth anything, probably even open-sourced
Want to write novel? Makes no sense, authors with the help of GPT3 will churn out 20 times more, etc. etc.
I agree that it's easy to dismiss a lot of ideas like this, and the fact that there's so many people out there working on all these ideas can seem a bit daunting.
What has helped me is knowing that I am doing all of this for myself, and because it's fun and interesting to _me_. Yeah, sure, other solutions exist, but then I'd be trading more money for less fun, and that's not... fun.
I hope that you can get your spark back. It all depends on external factors and life events as well and with those I cannot help, but don't lose hope.
> Unfortunately "not worth the trouble" mantra infected me and now I'm unable to do anything
I'm sorry for your loss.
Personally i was spending 1-2 hours every day making sure servers were running fine, drives were good, backups ran OK, software updates, and checking logs. None of those tasks interested me the least bit. I've run servers professionally for close to 2 decades, so i get enough of that at work, and considering that i can actually save money by letting someone else do it, it means that for me it was simply not worth it.
Instead, I use my "additional free time" to dive deeper into areas that actually interest me.
This philosophy can be applied for everything and unfortunately - for me - it's incredibly poisonous, I was very passionate about programming, coding, about this unique property of it that one can bring to life some abstract idea, concept that was only existing as thoughts
Unfortunately "not worth the trouble" mantra infected me and now I'm unable to do anything, most ideas are dismissed easily. Want to write some kind of software? Makes no sense, it's probably written already and if not then will be replicated in the blink of an eye by more resourceful entity if it's worth anything, probably even open-sourced Want to write novel? Makes no sense, authors with the help of GPT3 will churn out 20 times more, etc. etc.