Creativity: Mood, Motivation, and the Mindset of Learning

When I was sitting in my neighborhood café, I saw the waiter using a notebook to write down the coffee orders. I thought, “What? It’s 2025, and my neighbor is still using paper in his café.”

So, as usual, I opened my PC and Obsidian. It’s my project management tool, where I write my notes and tasks. Then, I started building my new project: a café dashboard.

This article is an example of my daily routine as a developer. I’m an extroverted person, so I talk to and meet a lot of people every day. That means I see many problems that need solutions. And this is exactly what I do — I build solutions for real reasons.

I think people need my solutions just as much as I need their feedback. We need each other. For me, instead of developing classic, well-known solutions, I prefer to find the real problem and address it. This is what being a real developer means to me.

Sometimes I make money from these solutions. Sometimes I do them for free. Because the first motivation is always the solution itself — at least for me.

When I was young, I wanted to be a doctor so I could solve people's problems. But sometimes life takes another direction. Today, I'm a developer. In a way, I still solve problems — just not in hospitals, but in code.

My perspective on IT might seem strange. But what truly matters to me is this competitive mindset. I realize it now: I’m greedy — greedy for knowledge. And this hunger pushes me every single day to be better.

I didn’t choose IT because of a plan. I chose it by accident. And that accident changed everything