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He did want to be a rails maintainer. Did you miss that part?He wasn’t willing to do the work for it. So where’s the lesson? What are we applauding? Changing g
by ulisesrmzroche 7y ago
He did want to be a rails maintainer. Did you miss that part?He wasn’t willing to do the work for it. So where’s the lesson? What are we applauding?
Changing goal posts is cheating yourself. Self discipline a sin now?
It’s the American stigma of failure, deeply flawed national trait
The argument is that hard work saps energy and can damage your self esteem so therefore it’s evil. No matter the benefits, they’re not worth it if they don’t come easy.
This is like bizarro Silicon Valley
- jodrellblank 7y agoSo where’s the lesson? What are we applauding? If your position is that changing your mind about anything ever is a sin, then what use is a 'lesson' to you? You can't learn it.
- jakemal 7y agoNo he didn't want to be a Rails maintainer. He wanted the improved job prospects of being a Rails maintainer but didn't have real interest in developing the product itself.
- eshyong 7y agoYep that's what I took away from it too.
- eshyong 7y agoThe author is not selling you anything. He is not saying that hard work is bad. His _whole argument_ is that we should work on projects that excite us and benefit us, as opposed to working on Rails because it's trendy and has lots of stars on Github. To be honest, I think you would agree with the author if you focused on the overall message rather than specific points in the post.
- kingludite 7y agohaha, I keep telling people to think of their performance as a training schedule. You monitor your health and overall well being, do as much as you should to gradually improve, not doing enough is as bad as doing to much. The response is that hilarious story how they imagine any amount of work to destroy them gradually.