John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips

Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by ramraj07 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @10:13AM (#32450080)

Many if not most productive academics have such insane schedules. They’re not necessarily asocial. I think the important distinction is in what I’d call “bullshit socializing.” A lot of what regular people do in the name of socializing is probably not helping them in any way. Academics get trained to not need this to relax necessarily.

I did my PhD in a lab that demanded it: we were expected to put 6 days, 12 hours a day. It’s possible for maybe 30% of population maybe? Especially if you’re privileged and don’t have to worry about other things in life (like kids, parents, money, physical health, chronic issues, mental health, etc). So in some ways the ability to train and be able to adopt this more “productive” life is a bit exclusionary and even discriminatory. In the end I chose not to continue in academia primarily because of this demand, I just didn’t feel like it was worth it.

Now I’m in tech and I do get bored, but happy that I have the choice to set my hours.

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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by baby on Saturday August 13, 2022 @03:24PM (#32452943)

> bullshit socializing

damn, I can only feel bad for people who use that term :( it seems like simple human interaction are being optimized out.

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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by ramraj07 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @08:00PM (#32454952)

You say it but I argue otherwise. I am not saying don’t socialize, but think hard about what you get from many of those events. You’re drunk off your mind, you meet and hang out with people you really don’t care that much about, and often you are left with a hangover or worse, a sense of not having had a good time. Just those types of events.

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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by baby on Sunday August 14, 2022 @03:50AM (#32457344)

I think everyone learns to outgrow these events

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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by Karrot_Kream on Saturday August 13, 2022 @09:15PM (#32455399)

Carmack mentions not being the kind of person who can go on long work binges. I love sloppy socializing and I also love to zone in on work and get immersed for 20 hours at a time then crash. Everyone has different habits.

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