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I can't even imagine having that kind of feeling related to my job. Especially not if it's about coding. At least not if it's about typical B2B or B2C software.

by kharak 8y ago

I can't even imagine having that kind of feeling related to my job. Especially not if it's about coding. At least not if it's about typical B2B or B2C software. What do you do for a living if you don't mind me asking?

pelario 8y ago
Not OP, but being a researcher in CS is a job that gives me that feeling (not always of course, but often enough)
- TelmoMenezes 8y ago
  I am the OP and I am a fellow researcher. I also love my job (most of the time). One of the reasons I love it so much is that it affords me freedom to think deeply about things that I care about without being in a straight jacket of constant schedules, meetings, two-week sprints or whatever else is prescribed this week by the High Priests of Productivity. Greatest "productivity" hack for me: having a door that I can close. My point is that "productivity" is a shallow value, and that turning yourself into a robot will not make you or the world any better. Speaking of academia, the "cult of productivity" and obsession with status is damaging science. It's not me who says that, it's Nobel Prize winners. For example: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2013/12/16/whats-wrong-with-science https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2013/12/16/...
skrebbel 8y ago
I run a company called TalkJS (https://talkjs.com https://talkjs.com). We're a toolbox that lets our customers build a proper chat feature in hours instead of months. This means lots of API design and I love to do API design. I get a deep sense of flow and purpose when dreaming up a tool (an SDK, a library, a language, a set functions or data types; whatever) that lets other programmers do a wide variety of things. Admittedly the other half of my job is business & marketing related. I like it too, especially since "sales" in our case mostly means talking to other programmers, and so does "management". But not as deeply as the code work. It also helps that since we're a remote-first company I can choose from where I work and I stop when I notice I'm too stuck or "my brain is full". We don't really do the typical startup-burnout-marathon.

by kharak 8y ago

pelario 8y ago

Not OP, but being a researcher in CS is a job that gives me that feeling (not always of course, but often enough)

TelmoMenezes 8y ago
I am the OP and I am a fellow researcher. I also love my job (most of the time). One of the reasons I love it so much is that it affords me freedom to think deeply about things that I care about without being in a straight jacket of constant schedules, meetings, two-week sprints or whatever else is prescribed this week by the High Priests of Productivity. Greatest "productivity" hack for me: having a door that I can close. My point is that "productivity" is a shallow value, and that turning yourself into a robot will not make you or the world any better. Speaking of academia, the "cult of productivity" and obsession with status is damaging science. It's not me who says that, it's Nobel Prize winners. For example: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2013/12/16/whats-wrong-with-science https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2013/12/16/...

skrebbel 8y ago

I run a company called TalkJS (https://talkjs.com https://talkjs.com). We're a toolbox that lets our customers build a proper chat feature in hours instead of months. This means lots of API design and I love to do API design. I get a deep sense of flow and purpose when dreaming up a tool (an SDK, a library, a language, a set functions or data types; whatever) that lets other programmers do a wide variety of things. Admittedly the other half of my job is business & marketing related. I like it too, especially since "sales" in our case mostly means talking to other programmers, and so does "management". But not as deeply as the code work. It also helps that since we're a remote-first company I can choose from where I work and I stop when I notice I'm too stuck or "my brain is full". We don't really do the typical startup-burnout-marathon.