>And we on HN could do better than merely dismiss it.
What, embrace it? I'll take self-deprecation over rejection of self-deprecation.
>We could try to dig into the underlying forces ourselves. E.g. not all hobbies consist of making the Apple I. So which do, and why? Are the things called hobbies merely two different types of work that are conflated by clueless observers simply because they're not the worker's day job? Or is there some amount of crossover between inventing the future and merely playing around?
Maybe if the article did that it wouldn't be so fluffy. It's fluffy because its terminology is closer to "Rock Star" than "Guitar Lesson."
If you are still inclined to view
jacques_chester's post as fluff, consider at least that _submission quality affects comment quality._
I know you're not likely to respond to my comment. I'm partially just wondering why you're wading into the field personally to address a meta point.
No, not to embrace it. But to ask and answer the more interesting question: "How do we differentiate between hobbies that changes the way the world does things, and hobbies that don't?"
Let's say jacques_chester was right. It was fluff and self-congratulatory. What comes of it? There's nothing to take home there. But if we had moved the discussion to the more interesting question (that the OP failed to cover, but we also failed to discuss), then that has pretty wide implications of how we might tackle our life's work.
>And we on HN could do better than merely dismiss it.
What, embrace it? I'll take self-deprecation over rejection of self-deprecation.
>We could try to dig into the underlying forces ourselves. E.g. not all hobbies consist of making the Apple I. So which do, and why? Are the things called hobbies merely two different types of work that are conflated by clueless observers simply because they're not the worker's day job? Or is there some amount of crossover between inventing the future and merely playing around?
Maybe if the article did that it wouldn't be so fluffy. It's fluffy because its terminology is closer to "Rock Star" than "Guitar Lesson."
If you are still inclined to view jacques_chester's post as fluff, consider at least that _submission quality affects comment quality._
I know you're not likely to respond to my comment. I'm partially just wondering why you're wading into the field personally to address a meta point.