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A comment on Between Workaholism and Procrastination (2015).

Re:Between Workaholism and Procrastination (2015) by pizza234 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @08:33AM (#23779477)
This seems to me the idea(s) of a young person who's working (no pun intended) on the small picture, but missing the big one. In short, somebody who doesn't know yet what to do in life, however, not what to do in the planning or business sense (which is what described in the post), but more precisely, what they _want_ to do.

To me, rather the conceptualization(s) proposed, the words of John Carmack are immensely more powerful: when asked about what's the difference that being rich made to him, he replied "not much, I wake up in the morning, I go to work, and I do my best"¹.

¹=I can't find the reference. I don't think it comes from Masters of Doom.

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Re:Between Workaholism and Procrastination (2015) by MathCodeLove on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:01AM (#23779698)
> when asked about what's the difference being rich has made to him

I think that this quote, while well meaning, misses what being lower class is. It's about the constance worry and anxiety over being able to provide. It's being terrified of every accident or potential set back. It's about constantly sacrificing wants for needs. Being even upper middle class alleviates many of these, and being rich alleviates almost all of them entirely.

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Re:Between Workaholism and Procrastination (2015) by Chris2048 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:34AM (#23780701)
TBH though, Carmack gets to choose what work he does in virtue of being wealthy.
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Re:Between Workaholism and Procrastination (2015) by pizza234 on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:46AM (#23790110)
I don't really get this, but Carmack's wealth has been, and is, completely disconnected from his software career.

I can take that he may not have founded his aerospace company without plenty of money, but that's not what he's mostly known for, or even better, what he represents (one of the greatest software engineers).

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