Here are the sentiments that I took away from this article, even if it was not the intention. - “If I don’t have the time to be THE BEST, I won’t bother even t

Here are the sentiments that I took away from this article, even if it was not the intention. - “If I don’t have the time to be THE BEST, I won’t bother even trying to be great.” - “I am okay, even proud to be a mediocre developer. I don’t want to commit lots of time to programming.” - “I would rather have an employer who accepts me for being mediocre because I have interesting things going on in my life.” - “I’d rather work on a team full of mediocre devs as long as the company had a great culture” I’m not saying it is an “incorrect” attitude. Someone may want to put together a team of developers who don’t really care about their craft, as long as they like to hang out together. I feel very differently though. I would much rather hire a developer who is mediocre but wants to get better than a mediocre developer who has the attitude of ‘I don’t want to put in all that time to be good at my craft. Did I mention I had a dog business though?’ As someone who has interviewed developers, I can tell you that most candidates do not have side projects. If you have side projects, it is a huge bonus. Not having side projects is not a big deal. Plenty of people get hired who don’t have side projects. But, if a candidate said no they don’t have any side projects, and then followed it up with something like ‘Yeah, I’m not one of those people who really likes coding enough to do any in my free time, plus I care more about my dog business that I run’ that says to me 'I don’t really care about this job."