I ve come to realize that doing projects in retire…

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I've been thinking a lot about why is it I enjoy writing software, working on the house, digging a trench, whatever it is. Why do I enjoy it so much now that I'm retired? And it was such a chore when I was doing it. Now, when I was writing software, in fairness, it was not a chore. I absolutely loved it. But I didn't really like having clients, meaning they had good ideas and a lot of my clients were super cool. But it was still like not 100% my decision on how to do things. And I didn't love that. But I mean, that's just business. You know, there's nothing to do about that. But what I realized is in retirement, I get to do it however I want. I'm not doing it for anyone. And it reminded me a lot of this video I saw with Rick Rubin, where he said, when I'm producing music, I'm not thinking of the listener. I'm not thinking of the audience. I don't care about the audience. I only produce music to come out the way I like it. And if a bunch of people happen to like that too, that's cool. But that's not how I do it. I don't care if anybody likes it. And I realized that's literally what makes doing things in retirement so much more fun. I was doing a little app the other day, just, you know, a fun app. I was doing a little app the other day, just, you know, a fun app. And I realized, you know, I was doing a little app the other day, just, you know, a fun app. And I realized, just for me, a little app goofing, I wanted it to work perfectly on mobile. Not just pretty good, not a pretty good trade-off between desktop and mobile. I wanted it to be perfect. I wanted it to do everything that I set out to do and easily and intuitively. And of course, I complicated it just horribly, but it came out exactly how I wanted. And I could have never probably done that if I cared about the audience. If I cared about the audience. If I cared about the audience.