@sun Obviously it's hard to recreate the high of encountering socrates, nietzsche, @nousnaut or @annsterzinger for the first time -- and it's going to take more effort to really get a reward like that through the written word when you've got a large corpus in your head. But reading is like a muscle - if you're working out every day, it remains easier and the rewards are sweeter with less strenuous effort.

Of course the boundaries between software, reading and math are fuzzy sometimes, but i do think they use different parts of the brain somewhat.

Socializing might be too, I'm not sure.

basically: keep coding, pick up a book once in awhile that is outside of what you would normally read, but be aware that the kinds of things that keep you out of a rut like this are going to be things that involve other people at the end of the day. You only have to socialize or read enough to think of something worth coding of course.