For me this manifests as changing jobs about every two years.
I also keep a Fred Brooks quote taped to the wall behind my monitors:
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. They build their castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time.
Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month
It doesn't fix alienation, but it helps. I particularly like to share it during interviews to get the vibe of the people I'm talking to and potentially going to be working with.
I also keep a Fred Brooks quote taped to the wall behind my monitors:
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. They build their castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time.
It doesn't fix alienation, but it helps. I particularly like to share it during interviews to get the vibe of the people I'm talking to and potentially going to be working with.