"Come back to Recurse Center!" they told me. "You'll get to write all sorts of cool code!" they said. Well I just spent two weeks writing exactly zero lines of code. It's a great feeling, seeing everyone around you create beautiful 3D graphical masterpieces or fully complete web applications while you spend twelve hours a day struggling to read technical papers that you don't even understand. This is what happens when you attempt to do things with CRDTs.