Stop adding business value and become an artist with your IT skills
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Argues that coding for pleasure boosts wellbeing citing a 2015 Journal of Social Science and Medicine paper on happiness and lifespan and urges a break from KPIs to make art. Shows concrete tools: p5.js for browser visuals and video processing (overlayed a logo and an interactive sketch), Sonic Pi and SuperCollider for live-coded music performances at algoraves, and Pico-8 for tiny games with 8×8 sprites. Ends by discouraging NFTs.
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