Uncorrelated but perhaps relevant blog post I wrote this morning, on the value of time: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/if-youll-ever-die-dont-ap

Uncorrelated but perhaps relevant blog post I wrote this morning, on the value of time: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/if-youll-ever-die-dont-apply/ http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/if-youll-ever... The only people who care about excellence are the excellent, and we almost never get to call the shots (we're bad at politics). Since the people evaluating our work are in no way qualified to assess excellence or even slightly-better-than-mediocre-goodness, most of our work is just a commodity, and the price is set by the winner's curse: schmucks who haven't learned (either by raising children, or by having people close to them get sick and die) how finite time is. It's better to compete to excel than to compete to suffer, but the software/startup world is run by people who don't value excellence in the least, and who wouldn't be qualified to evaluate it even if they did. So that steers us toward "compete to suffer" dynamics, also known as "fish frying" (http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/).