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Background Work: Establishing credibility by indulging engineering curiosity

41 pointsby KentBeckover 3 years ago

2 comments

bsedlmover 3 years ago
He seems to be saying something very much along the lines of [1].<p>However, I don&#x27;t like the work clock centric viewpoint. In my own experience this kind of pattern:<p>&gt; 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:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bityard.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019&#x2F;August&#x2F;rabbit-holes-the-secret-to-technical-expertise.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bityard.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019&#x2F;August&#x2F;rabbit-holes-t...</a>
leetroutover 3 years ago
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.