I'm Not Scared of the Pain.
I'm Scared of What Happens
If I Can't Type Anymore.
Three years. That's how long one programmer spent unable to code because his wrists gave out. No injury. No accident. Just eight hours a day, year after year.
He didn't have a dramatic injury. No fall from a ladder, no sports accident, no single moment he could point to and say: that's when it happened. It was just eight hours a day on a keyboard, year after year.
I read that account at 11pm on a Tuesday with my own wrists aching and a half-finished project on my screen. And something in me went cold.
"The fear isn't that it hurts. The fear is what happens to your life if you can't do this anymore."



