Real work is only real if you get paid for it ?
You do realise this is HN where quite a lot of us are building startups and not getting paid for it.
Well, you do realise that if you don't get paid for it it's not really your work. It's just an effort you might or might not turn into a work.
Re:The Failure of the iPad
by chrisseaton on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:39PM
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I think I see more normal working people using iPads to do their 'real work' day-to-day than I see using laptops to do their 'real work'. I think it may not be as much of a niche as you think it is.
It makes sense then to define "real work" by what the majority of "real work" is, not the exceptions, even if the exceptions are still real work.
Like the phrase "Nobody uses X" means "very few use X, so few that it doesn't matter", "Y is not good for real work" means "Y is not good for 90% of real work" (the most common types) not "Y is not good for any kind of real word at all ever period".