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Meaning is something you create or find, it’s not intrinsic to the activity. Right now there is someone complaining about doing “boring front end crud stuff” -
by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Meaning is something you create or find, it’s not intrinsic to the activity.
Right now there is someone complaining about doing “boring front end crud stuff” - an established product - who wants your job.
There is also someone doing “boring detail level stuff” who wants your job.
To put it another way: why is a low level library more meaningful than yours?
- zapperdapper 8y agoI think you are right that it's not the work itself that imparts the meaning. The interesting question is why does some work feel so much more meaningful than other, similar, work? If you can figure that out bottle it please and send me some!
- startupdiscuss 8y agoOkay, here is my process: 1. Get a lot of sleep 2. Drink caffeine 3. Take a moment to think about the larger social impact of what you do -- it definitely has some impact 4. Focus on the problem just ahead of you, get absorbed in how interesting it is from a certain perspective And that's it. If you're doing anything remotely technical, these are usually easy. But this can be done even if you're trading commodity futures. (Trading commodity futures is an important economic activity, and you're rewarded for reducing demand when its not needed and increasing demand when it is needed).