Indeed! I always cringe every time I hear the word in our industry. I suspect (and hope) that most who say it are really meaning committed/dedicated to their wo

Indeed! I always cringe every time I hear the word in our industry. I suspect (and hope) that most who say it are really meaning committed/dedicated to their work (and no, not in a committed/dedicated as code for sacrificing work/life balance). My belief is that most companies (excluding startups) should prefer dispassionate people. Why? Because it's too easy for the passionate to be emotionally attached to things (language, stack, framework, methodology), to where it can interfere with objectivity. I've worked with guys who would threaten to quit (and one Perl who did quit) if $favorite-language was not going to be used in the future. The other worrisome thing about the passionate is that they're more likely to burn out. What's wrong in our industry about being non-passionate? I don't get it.