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No joke, I've been wanting an introductory book on this.

Thanks for the correction!

I really hated lifting weights for the first 30 years of my life, but I've come to enjoy it. Well, I mean, I still dislike doing it in the moment sometimes, but overall I enjoy it.

Aristotle said something like it's a shame to focus only on the mind, and not bring your body to its full potential. Modern psychology says exercise leads to greater sense of well-being.

This isn't a magic bullet that will make stressors go away. Those have to be dealt with as much as you can. But it's nice to focus on other things than work and this is something that I do outside of work and find helpful for the same reasons.

I strongly recommend you temper your criterion `a` by how much the abstractions help or impede your understanding of the code later on, especially when trying to diagnose a bug.