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Paraphrasing Stephen King's advice:

Life isn't a support-system for technology. It's the other way around. If there's no joy in it, it's just no good.

And my own thoughts:

"Get better at using technology" is a vast possibility space. You'll never be able to learn, use, or even appreciate all modern technology like a specialist. Be intentional and figure out what you want to get out of your technology use, and learn what you need (maybe from one or some of those specialists) to best achieve it.


For those new to the advice, it's a quote from "On Writing", I saw it first in a Zen Pencils mini comic, and it moved me deeply, it seems like very good advice.

https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/king/

Or just get a specialist to do it.

You just have to convince one that your thing would be more fulfilling than writing their own malbolge compiler or whatever they currently do in their spare time.

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