A lot of development work is boring, unglamorous stuff that pays the bills and can't be avoided. Passionate developers hate that. I've had to intentionally rec

A lot of development work is boring, unglamorous stuff that pays the bills and can't be avoided. Passionate developers hate that. I've had to intentionally recruit "boring" developers, who weren't passionate at all. They just get on and do their 9-to-5 because it's their job. Without their help, we'd have lost most of our A-players due to a lack of sufficiently interesting work. Relatedly, there's a difference between being motivated and being disciplined. Passion and motivation are essential wherever innovation is required, but otherwise discipline is what gets the job done. Turns out, in any team larger than a handful of people, you need a mix both.