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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At postdoc typical streak was 2 weeks. At Xerox, 2-4 days. Now I only do hobby tech projects. Typical streak ~0.5 days.
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. nope, they usually have very good reason, otherwise you could just ignore them and plow through like a stubborn kid
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...story of my life. I'm always thinking, semi-aware of my own delusion, "next week's gonna be the week I get things done."
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