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Discussion on: Do you Know What Motivates YOU to be a Programmer?

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Michael Rice • Edited

Love your points! But one very simple, lizard brain thing to add to the list: dopamine. Every time you solve a hard problem, get the code to compile, tests to pass, Jenkins build to finish, etc... More dopamine :-)

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Danila Petrova

I agree with you, it is also a primary driver for productivity. I explored the dopamine effects in an article for Simple Programmer a few weeks ago. If you are interested you can check it out!