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Some of my best work is done when I’m just dicking around.
by ok_dad 1y ago
Some of my best work is done when I’m just dicking around.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoCan you share any examples? We're you dicking around and created a new database?
- ok_dad 1y agoJust because it’s my best work doesn’t mean I created a database. I don’t work at Google so I don’t have access to their world class resources and knowledge. For me, my best work is furniture that I didn’t plan beforehand, I just had a general idea of the dimensions and purpose.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoI was talking from the perspective of working for an employer, where you would get paid to dick around and need to provide a profitable output at the end to justify why dicking around is valuable to your employer. Not about your hobby work in your spare time since we all do nice things in our spare time, FOR US.
- ok_dad 1y agoI should work harder for others than for myself?
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoWhy do you keep moving the goalposts towards you? The conversation was whether it's beneficial for the company to be paying workers to dick around at work in hopes they'll make something creative and highly valuable, not what creative things you do in your spare time.
- ok_dad 1y agoI mean, you asked about examples I had, so I was being specific. I’m not here just to answer your questions, but to have a discussion, I don’t know why you’re being aggressive. I don’t run a company, so I can’t tell you if dicking around would be worth it. I do know at the place I currently work they are making a new product based on some dicking around by another employee.
- rybosome 1y agoFeynman has an excellent write-up on this very point. TL;DR - some of his Nobel-winning work began as dicking around.
- rybosome 1y agoHere is a short link - http://pythonwise.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-importance-of-playing.html http://pythonwise.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-importance-of-play...