Hard work. Boring work. Unfulfilling work. There is no relationship between these three things, but the author keeps saying "hard, boring work." I don't feel

Hard work. Boring work. Unfulfilling work. There is no relationship between these three things, but the author keeps saying "hard, boring work." I don't feel particularly bad about insisting that hard work doesn't have to be boring, and that boring, easy work is not hard. "The HN Generation doesn't want to put in their time doing boring, unfulfilling work" doesn't sound nearly as damning as "The HN Generation doesn't want to put in their time doing hard work." Anecdotally, programmers tend to work pretty damn hard.