Always stay in motion.
In 2014, I was reading a book a week, learning videography/editing, and doing outreach in the middle of class so I could sell those skills to clients. It was boring, there was no dopamine in it, and it took me years before I landed my first real agency client.
You don't get a lucky break because you were more prepared than everyone else, you get it by already being in the game when it shows up.
This is the mentality you need to succeed in business, giving up is never an option.
I'm 22 years old and Claude Code is deteriorating my brain.
Every single day for the last 6 months I've had 6 to 8 Claude Code terminals open, waiting for a response just so I can hit 'enter' 75% of the time. And it's doing something to me.
In convos with a couple of friends, it's been a point that's been brought up pretty frequently.
None of us feel as sharp as we used to.
I don't know if it's just us, or others in their 20s are feeling the same thing, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot.
P.S. I know this is a problem with my reliability/usage of it, not Claude Code itself, but the effects are real nonetheless