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# What interests me 2021-06-10 Programming interests me, though not as much as it used to. The longer I work as a programmer the more it becomes a job. An interesting, engaging job, but still a job. I rarely write code just for my own amusement. There's this excuse, that I spent all of my creative energy on writing code and don't have anything left for anything else - writing code for amusement, just writing or really anything else. It's probably bullshit. Bicycles interest me. I'm in no way an expert and never will be. I don't care about professional cycling and am not interested in becoming a bicycle theorist. I like riding for the sake of riding and exploration. One could even say I'm interested in the philosophy of the ride. I also somewhat enjoy tinkering with my bike, although I'd be happier if it just worked. I'm interested in guns. Have been for a long time. It's a passive interest. I haven't read any books about guns and never shot one. Still, I'm drawn to them. Part of it is the craftsmanship or technology. Part of it is "making things happen at a distance". There is no ideology in it for me. I can't imagine ever shooting anything living. I don't want other people shooting other living things. I just like guns. Drawing or sketching. I've always been doodling in my notebooks. I thought that I would like to learn to draw for real and even signed up for a sketching course. I interests me but I've found that I don't know how to get started. Maybe I should have signed up for a more "first-principles" class? I've put drawing to bed for now. I'm recovering my interest in being outdoors. I've spent a lot of time outside as a kid living in a small village. I've gone to so summer camps. I've went on hiking trips. Then I almost stopped for a while. Now I'm finding my way back. Love of the outdoors is what I would like to teach my child someday and that's why I want to start learning again. Politics, especially the left-wing kind, appeals to me. I would like to learn more about anarchism and other movements. I don't think I'll ever become really involved in it - I'm too cynical for that. Machining and manufacturing looks like something I could enjoy doing. I have this vague plan to get into it in the coming decades. Maybe it could be something I could transition into after I'm no longer able to write code? I've noticed a slight interest in languages. I speak several languages and I would like to learn one or two more. I would like to improve my knowledge of some languages I know and go beyond just business-speak in the one I'm currently using the most. Mathematics is a vague interest I have. I don't know much and don't know how to start but the subject seem to me like closes thing to magic (?) we have. Cinema is slightly interesting to me. More from the consumer side of things. I like watching movies. Prop-making and set design is one of the jobs I would choose if I could choose anything. Those are most of the things that interest me. I'm not particularly good at any of them. I'll should remember them more often and spend some time one them. And maybe explore other interests while I'm at it.