> The problem with doing something pointless for accolades is that you have to do so much of it, for so much longer than you expect. Time flattens out like a sq

> The problem with doing something pointless for accolades is that you have to do so much of it, for so much longer than you expect. Time flattens out like a square stretched in both dimensions. First it feels like it's taking forever subjectively, because it's so damn boring, then it also drags out objectively because you are doing it so ineffectively, because it's so damn boring.