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I usually have to either pivot a personal project (which can be hard as private projects rarely seem as interesting as the puzzles work can provide) or lean hard into a good multiplayer game with RPG elements. When I can land a personal project that fills the same space, that’s an easy enough fix. Otherwise, I find that a good RPG with friends kinda helps me transition to using maybe another side of my brain that eventually drones out the hungry curiosity from the work project
I find personally that it’s gotta be solved before I go to bed that night, though, or else I end up debugging in my dreams all night, and that never helps anything. Just wastes time (sometimes hilariously: “of course! I’ll just write my own version of json for that”) and breeds restless sleep