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    Burn out and recreational coding with Jamis Buck

    CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Jan 25, 2019 · 1 h 00 min
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    A decade ago Jamis Buck was not loving his job. He was an important open source contributor. He worked for the hottest trendiest software company at the time, 37 signals, creator of ruby on rails. He was on top of the world but also he was burnt out. Today Jamis talks about how he overcame burn out. We discuss how his struggle lead him to write a book about generating mazes and another about…

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