Ask HN: What do you think is preventing you from “thriving” in life?

I think the question is flawed from the get-go. Nothing is preventing you – there are blind programmers and amputee mountain climbers. You don't need motivation, what you need is discipline. Find what you want to do and then don't stop.

Yourself.

All of the new features I'm introducing are being called bugs. People just aren't appreciating the true value of frequent, random segmentation faults as alternatives to the Pomodoro technique

The time needed to build the amount of knowledge needed to act on my dreams.