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Background Work: Establishing credibility by indulging engineering curiosity
- leetrout 5y agoThis fits me to a T. I would imagine it fits most of us active on HN as well. Always an interesting set of content and usually an even more interesting set of comments.
- bsedlm 5y agoHe seems to be saying something very much along the lines of [1]. However, I don't like the work clock centric viewpoint. In my own experience this kind of pattern: > My own experience of background work, though, is that sometimes my curiosity gets the best of me at inopportune times, like 4 AM, and I need to just go do the work. is not a good thing IMO. [1] https://blog.bityard.net/articles/2019/August/rabbit-holes-the-secret-to-technical-expertise.html https://blog.bityard.net/articles/2019/August/rabbit-holes-t...
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