Enjoying some work, or deriving some kind of satisfaction from it doesn't make it not hard. That makes it satisfying and worthwhile. Stress, toil, and taxing t

Enjoying some work, or deriving some kind of satisfaction from it doesn't make it not hard. That makes it satisfying and worthwhile. Stress, toil, and taxing the body to the point of destructiveness can also make things hard. I don't even do web development, but the proliferation of standards and browser incompatibilities seem to make it hard. "Hard" means that other people can't do it easily. From this article, building a search engine as good as google wouldn't classify as hard, because other people would want to do it. I challege the author to simply build a search engine that beats google, since doing so doesn't qualify as 'hard' by the definition used in this article. (Or, at least, I suppose, the work of doing so doesn't classify as hard. But if you can't do it despite all of your efforts, how can it not qualify as 'hard work'?) I enjoy a counter-intuitive conclusion, and I agree with having a healthy degree of skepticism in the credit people give themselves for tasks and accomplishments, but I still feel that this amounts to saying 'satisfying or enjoyable work can't qualify as hard', and limits the definition of hard to simply 'doing what other people don't want to do'. Other people don't want to eat bugs. That doesn't make eating bugs hard. Some people want to climb difficult mountains. People want to do that, so no matter the slope or mountain or risk of death, that can't qualify as hard.