It pleases me sometimes to be a bit cryptic, but this I will expand on a bit, because it led to more ideas.
I have in mind Ecclesiastes, which is my favorite book of the Bible. The creed “Eat, drink, and take joy in your work” is quite functional, and I think sufficient to get most people through their lives.
To the point, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
One can take a pessimistic view of this, but here is my own take: whatever problem you have, whatever life challenges face you, whatever your WORK is for this lifetime: someone has successfully passed through where you are. It has been done. This means it CAN be done. History is on your side.
And obviously, failure is always an option. Someone has failed, too. But why look at your feet, rather than the horizon?
And this is eminently suitable for Best Case Scenario treatment. Why not just getting through, but transcending? Don’t use it as a club, obviously, but do feed it to your unconscious as a possibility, and one which has been realized somewhere, by someone.
And I shouldn’t need to say this, but I will: there is nothing unique about technology. There is no fundamental difference between trying to build a web app, and trying to build a better fence using your own ideas, and the materials at hand. There is nothing unique about feeling alone, alienated, detached from a sense of meaning, or surrounded by change. There is nothing unique about feeling love, feeling special, feeling a sense of belonging, and a sense of continuity with the past.
Even atheism has a very long history. The Carvakas of India pre-date Christ. It may be that every snowflake is unique, but this does not prevent us from talking about snow.