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I just want to code (2023)

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288 points SCUSKU | 1 comments | 27 Apr 25 20:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.371s | source
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alkonaut ◴[28 Apr 25 06:48 UTC] No.43818348[source]▶
Do many people hobby code with that entrepreneur mindset thing? Or sit down to play guitar thinking they want to make a hit and feeling bad if they just noodle some cover songs? What a miserable existence that must be. How do you get that way? Should we blame LinkedIn or what is it?
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1. makeitdouble ◴[28 Apr 25 06:59 UTC] No.43818404[source]▶
This is a reaction that I had for a time, until realizing that outside of just "some people are different", there is also the wider protestant work ethic putting work at the center of their life, and assigning a moral value to productive work.

I'm describing it in too vague terms to be appropriate, and most people might be thinking it in that way, but I genuinely think there's a part of it in a lot of the "I did this paid service as a weekend project" mentality.