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This is messing with my head. I love Spinoza and Kafka and couldn't imagine them as anything else but being full-time thinkers and writers.

• throwanem 1y ago
  Who told you they weren't? Are you only a programmer or a thinker about programming while at keys?
  • volkk 1y ago
    i think by full time they meant sitting around in some dingy room, smoking cigarettes and positing/thinking rather than filling most of their days with other activities that have nothing to do with this craft (and i would say to posit well, you need life experiences and they did exactly what they needed to do to become legendary)
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    • throwanem 1y ago
      'Another county heard from.'
      • throwawayoldie 1y ago
        Thanks for dropping by. No need to hurry back.
        • throwanem 1y ago
          Thanks for that substantive contribution.
• nisegami 1y ago
  Personally, the line between 'administrator in an insurance company' and Kafka's works fits neatly within my mental model of the world.
  • throwawayoldie 1y ago
    Which makes me wonder what he called the kind of experience a person has when dealing with an insurance company: the word "Kafkaesque" didn't exist yet.
    • gjm11 1y ago
      "Inspiration", perhaps.