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Comment on Ask HN: Are you as passionate as you used to be?

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Do you experience joy when you perform activities that brought you joy in the past? Do you find your capacity for joy and activities in general to have decreased? You might get checked out for depression or nutrition/hormone levels. In cis men, low testosterone can cause you to lose your passion for a lot of stuff. But so can not enough magnesium and other trace minerals.

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Not that much. Programming was much more fun when I was a kid. everything was new. Every single computer science concept used to amuse me. I used to think about how X works. how Y works. I feel like after finishing undergrad, I pretty much knew how everything in CS "basically" works. compilers, databases, machine learning, etc etc. I still like programming, but I'm not as passionate as I used to be about it.

> I pretty much knew how everything in CS "basically" works

Ha! You haven't gotten that old yet, or you'd never believe that!

Is it just programming or is it for anything else that brings you joy, e.g. any hobbies or media you consume.

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