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That's a great point. It's not specific to software but knowledge work and creative work are nearly impossible to do without intrinsic motivation.
by gideon_b 10y ago
That's a great point. It's not specific to software but knowledge work and creative work are nearly impossible to do without intrinsic motivation.
- dom0 10y agoThese comments here mostly speak for the fact that the commenters did, in fact, never experience burnout, depression or other heavily psychologically draining issues. Because you literally cannot do things. Which things is completely and utterly irrelevant. I don't understand why people still a) think that "knowledge professions" are some kind of unicorn job where special snowflake sauce is required, and it's obviously totally different from those gritty "manual labour jobs" and you have to constantly set yourself apart (how arrogant is that?!) b) purport this strange notion that psyche has little to do with the body. Digger won't dig? Just whip'em, it'll work for sure.
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