Solitude Deprivation A state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds. - Cal Newport

a philosophy that prioritizes long-term meaning over short-term satisfaction.

Recall our XP case study, where Greg Woodward noted that a lot of developers dislike the extreme environment and end up leaving after a few weeks. The aspect that most distresses them? The transparency. You’re either producing good code, or you’re obviously not. Some are simply not comfortable with this blunt assessment of what they’re actually accomplishing.

Beautiful code is short and concise, so if you were to give that code to another programmer they would say, “oh, that’s well written code.” It’s much like as if you were writing a poem.