Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job
by wonder_er on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @01:03PM
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I've done a lot of service jobs, and commercial construction jobs, and have a deep appreciation for a clean and well-organized space.
I love to sweep. If I could get paid as a SWE to just speak and "garden" our office, to make it a more pleasent environment, conducive to peaceful thought and pleasent interactions, I'd take that job in a heartbeat.
He believes that all work on something new starts with "repairing" the environment in which that new thing is being created. (The codebase, the room, the block).
The first step of repair is to tidy and clean.
Sooooo I can weave a compelling story to others about why cleaning and tidying is in fact _very_ reasonable to do, and some could argue it's some of the more important work someone could do.
I love to sweep. If I could get paid as a SWE to just speak and "garden" our office, to make it a more pleasent environment, conducive to peaceful thought and pleasent interactions, I'd take that job in a heartbeat.
Christopher Alexander is a bit of a god-father of object-oriented programming, and architecture: https://dorian.substack.com/p/at-any-given-moment-in-a-proce...
He believes that all work on something new starts with "repairing" the environment in which that new thing is being created. (The codebase, the room, the block).
The first step of repair is to tidy and clean.
Sooooo I can weave a compelling story to others about why cleaning and tidying is in fact _very_ reasonable to do, and some could argue it's some of the more important work someone could do.