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Joel Spolsky wrote an excellent article about these kinds of clauses in programmer employment agreements. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-

• caconym_ 8y ago
  > This ambiguity is meant to create enough of a chilling effect on the employee working in their spare time that for all intents and purposes it achieves the effect that the employer wants: the employee doesn’t bother doing any side projects that might turn into a business some day, and the employer gets a nice, refreshed employee coming to work in the morning after spending the previous evening watching TV. Nailed it.