He seems to be saying something very much along the lines of [1].<p>However, I don't like the work clock centric viewpoint. In my own experience this kind of pattern:<p>> My own experience of background work, though, is that sometimes my curiosity gets the best of me at inopportune times, like 4 AM, and I need to just go do the work.<p>is not a good thing IMO.<p>[1] <a href="https://blog.bityard.net/articles/2019/August/rabbit-holes-the-secret-to-technical-expertise.html" rel="nofollow">https://blog.bityard.net/articles/2019/August/rabbit-holes-t...</a>
This fits me to a T.<p>I would imagine it fits most of us active on HN as well. Always an interesting set of content and usually an even more interesting set of comments.