John Carmack was said to take a weekend and lock himself in a hotel room so he could achieve total focus on difficult problems. What surprised me about this ar

John Carmack was said to take a weekend and lock himself in a hotel room so he could achieve total focus on difficult problems. What surprised me about this article is that it's not the typical Hackernews fare of "Hi, we're Cerridwen, a transenby fox-weasel hybrid plural system and CISO of Eoana, a startup building enterprise static container verification tools in Rust." It was just someone with kind of a shitty job who does tech on the side because it interests her. There are more people like her out there working in "tech", by far, than there are Cerridwens, and yet the Cerridwens are the ones who bubble to the top of Hackernews. And so the thinking of Hackernews tends to be within the Cerridwen bubble, whether we're aware of it or not. So it's great to get a more ordinary perspective on this kind of issue.