>Even things that were neither novel (academia), profitable (industry), nor impactful (nonprofits). You classifications are good but it's a bit simplistic. Gen

>Even things that were neither novel (academia), profitable (industry), nor impactful (nonprofits). You classifications are good but it's a bit simplistic. Generally across the spectrum people is looking for breakthrough (e.g. deep learning) and/or game changing (e.g. transformer) contributions regardless if you're in academia, industry, non-profit, government labs, etc. But for pure joy, it can be from any simple creative projects as you've mentioned or it can be giving up seats for the elderly in a crowded metro trains.