By Gretchen Rubin

Every Wednesday is Tip Day, or List Day.
This Wednesday: Five reasons for the joys of craft, or, Why is programming fun?

I recently read (sort of) Frederick Brooks's The Mythical Man-Month. As I understand it, this book is a cult classic, and I was very curious to read it. It's about software project management, and even though that's a subject about which I know nothing, I found the book very interesting -- that is, the parts I could understand.

My favorite section was a discussion of "The Joys of Craft," in which Brooks answers the question, "Why is programming fun?" This question interests me because it's such a good reminder of my Secret of Adulthood: Just because something is fun for someone else doesn't mean it's fun for me -- and vice versa.

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