Perhaps the authors, like many artists, are happy to have the perfect day jobs so that they can pursue interesting hobbies in their spare time. You know, hobbie

Perhaps the authors, like many artists, are happy to have the perfect day jobs so that they can pursue interesting hobbies in their spare time. You know, hobbies like blogging, or writing open source software. [1] There really is a limit to the amount of exciting original thinking that a person can do in a week. You need to sleep. You need to exercise. And you need downtime. If you've got an exciting, fast-moving, forward-looking hobby, it's kind of useful to have a pleasant, renumerative job to do in your off hours. And it's hard to develop frameworks for building maintainable software if you never actually have to maintain any software. Practice makes perfect. [1] I cannot believe that I just read a post suggesting that David Heinemeier Hansson might not be doing enough interesting things with his time. How much more code should the guy be giving away? I'm sure there's a non-empty set of people who wish he'd slow down.