You have to be either young with nothing to lose, or rich with nothing left to prove, to enjoy luxury of working purely on tech challenges
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...Everybody else has to work through a thicket of people challenges to create room to work on interesting tech problems
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One way to measure your tech freedom is "mean focus time between people-related derailment/crash events". Was ~2-3 months in grad school.
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also, bare-minimum effort losers who look for these challenges outside of work? :)
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I'm doing it because I'm middle-aged with nothing to lose. None of us has anything to lose. None of us has anything. Ashes in the wind.
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