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Ask HN: Why do you do, what you do?

5 pointsby lukasfischerover 3 years ago
Open question.

5 comments

azdleover 3 years ago
Money<p>Edit: if I didn&#x27;t need money to be able to continiue to live a comfortable life I&#x27;d quit my job (working for a cloud-based home IoT platform provider, which I hate at the moment) and do something more useful (at the moment, I&#x27;m thinking that&#x27;s a cloud-free semi-self-arranging p2p IoT system, I mean, that would be super cool right?).<p>Edit2 (I&#x27;m super drunk right now edition): I work for SmartThings (a subsidiary of Samsung) because 1. I had a diabolocial plan since before I started here to slowly change it into a local IoT intergration platform since before I started. (Which I&#x27;ve finally released stage 1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.smartthings.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;announcement-smartthings-edge-for-devices-and-automations&#x2F;229555" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.smartthings.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;announcement-smartthings...</a> ) and 2. I feel like this is.inconsequential enough that I&#x27;m at least not making the world worse than it already is. Also 3, I get paid $133900 a year base salary in Minneapolis which I thing is pretty good. (Lol, again back to money.)
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unearth3dover 3 years ago
Design industrial landscapes as I&#x27;m good at it, the only task I&#x27;ve found makes life make sense, allows me to work (mostly) alone. I need to make $ to live, and repairing Earth seems a constructive lifeway.<p>Currently learning to scale landscape architecture to regional, transbounday and planet scales.<p>If I didn&#x27;t need money? I&#x27;d still do what I&#x27;m doing now just more larger difficult sites, or become a full-time climate activist (both are very similar to me).
PaulHouleover 3 years ago
Beautiful home and family. Office that overlooks a baseball field. A viable product where I&#x27;m integrated in the team. Animals. Nature. Seeing another reflected (as if in a mirror) by the computer.<p>Interesting people on my floor.<p>I used to play a lot video games. I put down the controller and now I apply &quot;level design&quot; to the physical universe.
MattGaiserover 3 years ago
Interest or it was boring but the reward was big enough.
approxim8ionover 3 years ago
Food on the table.