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Some pressure to ship and to work on the things your customers actually need keeps you honest. It's satisfying to work on things which make a short term differe
by fancyfredbot 2y ago
Some pressure to ship and to work on the things your customers actually need keeps you honest. It's satisfying to work on things which make a short term difference to the bottom line because you know at least someone cares. In contrast to working on a speculative side project which may never see the light of day.
- sanderjd 2y agoI've come to believe this is just a legitimate personality difference. I really struggle to find joy when I'm working on something that I question the usefulness of. But I've worked with many people who find the work itself joyful and don't mind that at all.
- codr7 2y agoThat's not my problem at all. I can't work on something I don't see as useful, that's the whole reason I started programming in the first place. But building useful things is not what most software companies are up to these days, far from it.