Interesting thread on HN about someone who worked for AppAmaGooFaceSoft for 6 years and is dealing with a sense of ennui and purposelessness. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961560 …
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serious Q: Why don't things like performance reviews catch "coasters"? I would think that's half their point.
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Partly because measuring productivity is hard and partly because one can coast while being acceptably productive relative to local norms. There are some narrow activities where I’m plausibly among best X in world, but I could also be an entirely acceptable bookkeeper, right?
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IMO larger orgs drive coasting by accident. They reduce risk by minimizing the impact of individual failure. Side effect is lowered expectations which encourages distraction and individual mediocrity.
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It's unsurprising that so many people in that thread, including the original poster, identify themselves as having depression.
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I'm pretty sure I just joined an "advanced stages" job search web site
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That’s scary
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Thank you for articulating this. Extremely helpful to me (and some relatives) just now.


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Brain constantly tries to minimize power consumption, it uses up ~10% of body energy in idle state, up to 25% at full use. Coasting at minimal absolute output is natural, and gives ability to respond to emergency states - illness, obsessive interesr, work fires etc
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