Somewhere along the way, the pursuit of efficiency in machines has been replaced by its pursuit in humans. And we’re all lesser for it. #reflections
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Word. I just saw a thread where somebody was saying it was ill advised to refuse to code outside of work because you’ll lessen your chances of “success”. Sure- if you’re optimizing just for being a useful coder- you can maximize that success by throwing away everything else.
And I say “useful coder” because really- who are you doing this for...? Sounds like you’ll certainly make an employer happy but I doubt there’s some sort of trickle down from that to nearly anything else important. It’s
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It’s not an easy choice to know exactly how we should be spending our time and in fact this can be one of the most anxiety inducing things. But I do know for sure I don’t want to default to -just coding-. That’s so one dimensional and boring.
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Agree!! I saw that thread and had thoughts! 1) we define success too narrowly. 2) coding outside work for career success is essentially work and this optimising of our lives for a narrowly defined "success" is a burden we are all collectively carrying.
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