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Re:John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016) by zerr on Friday June 16, 2023 @07:34PM (#36365426)
The difference is that while most try to do their hobbies (e.g. game dev) after 8 hours of CRUD/boring/exhausting employment (working for others), Carmack had his hobby (game dev) as his day job, and also, he worked for himself - he never was an employee.
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Re:John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016) by intelVISA on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:22PM (#36366221)
Big fan of Carmack but yes, he was blessed to have his interests, abilities and 'job' align near perfectly.

Being able to solve interesting problems all day and directly reap the rewards is positively alien to the avg SWE enduring their 9-5 grind on 'business problems' in a CRUD gulag to pay off their boss' new yacht.

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Re:John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016) by bluedino on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:25PM (#36366589)
The id guys took their work computers home to create Commander Keen while they still were employed at Softdisk
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