I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku?
iamwil: Here's something from Aaron Swartz about the same topichttp://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivityI remember pg saying that if he had uninteresting programming work, he would try to make it interesting by making a language design problem.My dad's brother told him once that "Everything's interesting when you look hard enough."  I've found that to be true so far.But even if you find your work interesting at large, I think everyone has their cycles.  It helps to notice how you got out of the last one, and what you did to get out of it.  Even the coolest job and most interesting work has its lame parts that you have to slosh through.