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I'm seeing myself in the text, but one aspect that doesn't seem to be covered enough is the ego.

I find joy in receiving praise from my colleagues when they have good experiences with my tools.

Playing devil's advocate here, but is that simply validation that stuff you've written is actually useful? This could be seen as a proxy for self worth, which if something is useful, helps stave off that nagging anxiety in the back of your head? The question here is, is that a useful driver to build new things, or do we let things go? That's kinda similar to the article's premise.

(takes one to know one here)

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