This is Category 5 douchebaggery dressed-up as an attempt to be "hip" to the fact that ambitious people often have side projects. It's revolting and way out of

This is Category 5 douchebaggery dressed-up as an attempt to be "hip" to the fact that ambitious people often have side projects. It's revolting and way out of touch. Not only is the moral high horse off-putting, but the advice is impractical. Article says you should be spending 1000 hours per year looking for another career. It also says that if any of those 1000 hours occur on "company time", then (using their words) "you are stealing". This is overprivileged nonsense at its worst. How many people can fit in 1000+ hours per year on a side project and the real demands of a typical day job without some degree of (taken if not given) overlap? Answer: not many, but it's a good assumption that these writers have multiple maids and nannies... Of course, it's worth it to be smart about overlap. Avoid using company resources, and the writing of code that will go into production should not occur during traditional company hours. If you're going to steal time from work, use it for reading, learning, and exploration-- not product code itself. You can lose if you do that.