Growing old gracefully: on being a career programmer.
summary
Practical roadmap for a long software career: treat it as a marathon, pace work and save a pipeline of clients or three months of runway, and fight hiring ageism by looking outside the tech bubble. Use concrete tools — Time Out, Focus, RescueTime, Blocker X and micro.blog — to enforce breaks and eliminate distractions. Build visible, slow‑burn credibility via OSS (limit weekly time, get employer to sponsor patches). Habit advice boils down to three rules: be diligent, be prolific, be social.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:05FOWA The Future of Web Apps
- 3:53Apple Reinvents the phone with iPhone
- 10:42What if you just want to keep programming?
- 11:06Look outside the tech bubble
- 15:53Priority #1 Self Care
- 24:20What about the phone?
- 33:01Contributing to open source is stopping me from sleeping.
- 33:12Contributing to open source is ruining my health
- 37:16Get you employer to help
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