I have a few words that I use idiosyncratically. One is "boring", which I almost always use to mean "important to humanity."
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Better workflows for insurance onboarding of new employees are boring; cat photo sharing apps are not boring.
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(No judgment for people who work on cat photo sharing! You do whatever floats your boat! I use this as a heuristic for me & opportunities.)
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People sometimes apologize for bringing me boring problems about boring software. Those are the very best problems to wake up to.
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Why do I personally aim towards boring? Partly because of intrinsic interest in fractally detailed deep problems; boring stuff has them.
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Partially it's because the market prefers sexy to a degree which is exploitably inefficient, and I'm happy applying corrective capitalism.
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Replying to @patio11
I love this phrasing. PS it seems like you've been blowing up recently, awesome work!
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(Out of idle curiosity: how so?)
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