I think this stems from so many articles about "passion" I see on HN. That and when I look at job posting they always want someone who has contributed to a sign

I think this stems from so many articles about "passion" I see on HN. That and when I look at job posting they always want someone who has contributed to a significant amount of projects on github. If you can't share your day to day work publicly like that (I can't) then it must be open source or side projects. To take on things like that I feel like you need to have free time, and then the drive to actually want to do those things after you've spent 10 hours or more at your day job. Then if you don't have a profound github profile I feel like you aren't taken seriously, at least as a developer. I don't think passion is a requirement to be good at something.