This video really spoke to me.
"Making Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKTxC9pl-WM)
Or at least so far the first 8 minutes has spoken to me (aka identifying the Problem; not sure how the remaining 15 minutes will resolve it...)
Cliffs: MY BRAIN IS TIRED. ALL THE TIME. But now I realize why (and some of it is, admittedly, my own damn fault)