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With web dev and marketing — and probably in many other areas — there is something equivalent of productivity porn that I don’t know what to call. It manifests
by gk1 6y ago
With web dev and marketing — and probably in many other areas — there is something equivalent of productivity porn that I don’t know what to call. It manifests in lengthy discussions with multiple stakeholders, endless iterations, and many thousands spent on tools that in the end mean nothing on their own. Like, cool, you shaved half a millisecond off your build time and your smartfridge sounds a ding at every successful deploy... What has that done for the bottom line?
- dexwiz 6y agoI think a lot of this stems from the idea that “I can do better,” trying to do better and failing, and finally trying to post hoc justify the work
- k__ 6y agoTo me, the biggest hurdle was that writing wasn't technical work. How can something like blogging, something that thousands of boring food and travel bloggers do, be real work or even of value for anyone? Coding, that's real work, that's what people pay good money for! So why not create your custom blog before you start writing.
- ulisesrmzroche 6y agoPeople pay good money for books too. I had a co-worker who wrote a sci-fi serial and self-published on Amazon, and now that's all he does. He says he's made more money with this than his whole life coding. Every day I think more and more I should do the same.
- k__ 6y agoI know, I wrote one that made me good money. But being a dev, I always had the feeling coding is the way. I'm not saying I still believe that stuff, but I did when I was a young coder right out of university and I guess that's one of the reasons why people build their own blog setup.
- ulisesrmzroche 6y agoI believe people build their own blog setup mostly out of ideology and a need to tinker. "How can something like blogging, something that thousands of boring food and travel bloggers do, be real work or even of value for anyone?" You gotta read something other than tech docs and forums.