I had never seen that cartoon about the "dream job" before, but it's something I've thought about so many times as I've listened to people talk about their dream job or dream employer. It always struck me as strange to dream of labor / dream of being an employee - must be a cultural thing.
Programming is a "dream job" for me. I'm getting paid to do (approximately) the same stuff I would be (and am) doing on my own time, and I have entire departments whose job it is to handle the boring drudge work, like accounting, taxes, billing, client meetings, etc. etc. Sure, there are trade-offs. I have to use a language that I'm not entirely happy with, infrastructure choices I don't fully agree with, pre-existing code, and meetings that I find irrelevant, but, overall, I'm happy with the tradeoff.
And besides, it's not as if you're free of those things as a freelancer.
On the other hand, working is what most of us spend 8 hours a day on. It makes sense to make the most of that time, and not all jobs are equally interesting/fun/rewarding.
A dream house is another example of this. Let's face, housing is awful. The pie in the sky dream would dream of not needing housing at all, but more realistically I can also dream of a house that makes some things slightly less awful. Dreaming about that house provides me with information that I need to move towards it.
More likely it is a semantic thing. I imagine everyone does something like that, but may not call it dreaming.
the "what do you want to be when you grow up" question kids get asked usually involves something involving labor (unless astronauts, firefighters, teachers, and police work for free!)
Especially when you look at the majority of startups getting funded or posting in "Who's Hiring" and the descriptions of what they do boils down to.. trying to solve some trivial problem.
Brian Kernighan is the type of nerd that you dream of working with AND having a casual drink with. I wish I had some friends like this (I don't actually know Brian, but have read/listened to a lot of his stuff).
Surely many companies have no idea how to accurately measure "productivity", or simply have no good way to even go about it. If net income is increasing then stop whining about people working from home.
I definitely feel like I'm at a point of no return (to gas engines) after driving a Tesla for a couple of years. I drove a nice gas powered car the other week and the experience was akin to going back to my flip-phone after experiencing the iPhone. I do look forward to more, better electric cars on the market, but I've completely moved beyond the desire of owning a legacy gas powered vehicle.
Also, I do want to say it's not like I hate spending time with my kids (setting aside the usual annoyances of dealing with misbehaviors), but in terms of pure hedonism, there's plenty of things I enjoy more that I don't do as much because it would be shitty of me to never be around.
I have no faith that Facebook knows what it’s doing, but I need to point out that COVID is going to absolute cripple the population if we don’t all learn to get virtual for anything truly optional real quick. And if it does cripple the population, a lot of stuff will have to be virtual to be attended at all.
Most of Europe and the America's are winding down lockdown measures. mRNA vaccines are highly effective. if you try to book a plane or concert ticket you'll see that people are racing to get out of their homes after 2+ years.
My entire family got Covid last week because we let our guard down and went on vacation on an airplane. all vaccinated, but still put us out for over a week and counting. it may not kill us, but I definitely don’t want to get Covid again if I can do something to decrease my risk, like choosing zoom over in person.
i dont think it's even habits - the technology of VR is just not mature enough, and convenient enough. I don't see it becoming better by an order of magnitude, which is what's needed for it to be competitive with real life attendance, any time soon.
They're both American. Su Zhu looked to have a nice apartment in Singapore based on his now notorious UpOnly episode. It seems 3AC is kaput now, and the two will be reduced to whatever money they invested outside of the company, which for all we know is a fantastic amount of real estate, equities and cash.
