Because my code and project structures were causing me to do a lot of extra work, especially when I had to refer to older analyses I’d been doing. I knew there had to be a better way so i developer a habit of paying attention to how the job was done, not just getting the job done.

Switching to Python and seeing enough python code helped too, but I think other widely used languages would have been about the same like JavaScript. Seeing a lot more code than just googled matlab snippets was a big part of it.

Anyway essentially it had become increasingly apparent that “there’s got to be a better way!”