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It's not play if you're doing it for such reasons. To do it for play means just to do it for the activity itself with no ulterior motive (including career growt
by heisnotanalien 4y ago
It's not play if you're doing it for such reasons. To do it for play means just to do it for the activity itself with no ulterior motive (including career growth). Similar to kicking a ball against a wall - you do it because it's fun not because it will get you somewhere. The problem is everyone is trying to get somewhere these days (essentially to find security in a world that doesn't really offer any).
- rerdavies 4y agoPlay doesn't have to be useless. It just has to be inefficient. Efficiency in this case would be to just go and buy an $1800 guitar pedal instead of investing $40,000 worth of personal development time on a toy project for the sheer joy of it.
- monsieurbanana 4y agoWe need to hurry and invent a new synonym of play for profesional athletes, all this time they haven't been playing at all! More seriously, what constitutes playing is such a subjective feeling I personally wouldn't tell someone that's not what he's doing. Now using that to gauge someone in a interview is a much more tricky discussion.
- leetcodesucks 4y ago[dead]