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I agree with Josh completely. It's unsustainable to focus 100% on your business. Our brains aren't optimized this way. We need hobbies, recreation, and diversi

I agree with Josh completely. It's unsustainable to focus 100% on your business. Our brains aren't optimized this way. We need hobbies, recreation, and diversions to be healthy.

perl4ever 8y ago
Then there's Elon Musk...who is apparently thinking about a new company to sell bricks made from the mud from his tunnel boring company.
- lintroller 8y ago
  I feel as if attempting to start a side business in an unrelated field could be considered as a hobby.
  - harlanji 8y ago
    Precisely, even at the micro level. Coding a video platform is different than coding an analytics system. 90% of coding is research and lots of that is done without as another commenter said money+deadline, ie. not a contract. Musk surely has lots of hobbies and Hammock Driven Development happens (Rich Hickey/Clojure style). If Musk ever starts getting chubby then I’ll worry—elsewhere in thread I qualify this.
- tomc1985 8y ago
  That is classical diversification: commoditizing a most-likely discarded waste product. Pretty innovative if you ask me.
  - Retra 8y ago
    How can something be both innovative and classic?
- throwaway010718 8y ago
  My hobby remained my hobby even when it started making money. It wasn't until I started focusing on profit where it ceased to be a hobby and started feeling like work. Elon Musk doesn't appear to be motivated by profit and therefore he doesn't need a hobby. Besides, what cooler hobby could there be than building rockets.
  - DmenshunlAnlsis 8y ago
    If he isn’t motivated by profit, why did he recently seek a $2.4 billion dollar raise?
    - steve_musk 8y ago
      So he can pay to develop the platform needed so he can retire on Mars
      - DmenshunlAnlsis 8y ago
        He’s a smart guy, he knows that the whole Mars thing is just PR for people who want to believe. Musk is a marketing genius, but when you strip away the money he’s in it for money and power.
        perl4ever 8y ago
        I think of it as axiomatic that nobody is really in it for the money, as that is just a placeholder for the ability to do things or comparative status. When you say he's in it for power, that sounds like you think of power as meaning power over other people, but why can't he be primarily motivated by seeking power over nature - which living on Mars might amount to the ultimate example of?

I agree with Josh completely. It's unsustainable to focus 100% on your business. Our brains aren't optimized this way. We need hobbies, recreation, and diversions to be healthy.

perl4ever 8y ago

Then there's Elon Musk...who is apparently thinking about a new company to sell bricks made from the mud from his tunnel boring company.

lintroller 8y ago
I feel as if attempting to start a side business in an unrelated field could be considered as a hobby.
- harlanji 8y ago
  Precisely, even at the micro level. Coding a video platform is different than coding an analytics system. 90% of coding is research and lots of that is done without as another commenter said money+deadline, ie. not a contract. Musk surely has lots of hobbies and Hammock Driven Development happens (Rich Hickey/Clojure style). If Musk ever starts getting chubby then I’ll worry—elsewhere in thread I qualify this.
tomc1985 8y ago
That is classical diversification: commoditizing a most-likely discarded waste product. Pretty innovative if you ask me.
- Retra 8y ago
  How can something be both innovative and classic?
throwaway010718 8y ago
My hobby remained my hobby even when it started making money. It wasn't until I started focusing on profit where it ceased to be a hobby and started feeling like work. Elon Musk doesn't appear to be motivated by profit and therefore he doesn't need a hobby. Besides, what cooler hobby could there be than building rockets.
- DmenshunlAnlsis 8y ago
  If he isn’t motivated by profit, why did he recently seek a $2.4 billion dollar raise?
  - steve_musk 8y ago
    So he can pay to develop the platform needed so he can retire on Mars
    - DmenshunlAnlsis 8y ago
      He’s a smart guy, he knows that the whole Mars thing is just PR for people who want to believe. Musk is a marketing genius, but when you strip away the money he’s in it for money and power.
      - perl4ever 8y ago
        I think of it as axiomatic that nobody is really in it for the money, as that is just a placeholder for the ability to do things or comparative status. When you say he's in it for power, that sounds like you think of power as meaning power over other people, but why can't he be primarily motivated by seeking power over nature - which living on Mars might amount to the ultimate example of?