This is probably an outcropping of the trend in '90s prep schools to force students to have pitch-perfect side projects for their college applications. That shi

This is probably an outcropping of the trend in '90s prep schools to force students to have pitch-perfect side projects for their college applications. That shit never sat right with me. Here are a few side projects I've found employers don't really want to hear about, but find hard to say no to: "I run a bitcoin casino" "I build genetic algorithms to hack the stock market so I can make fuck-you money and quit this job" "I distill my own whisky but I still go to the bar every night and get into passionate political conversations" "Waste a lot of time on HN"