On: John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)

[coryrc]

I can do tons of work if it's motivating. Most of what's available is tedium and incremental bullshit.

Actually I'll go further and say most of our work is a net negative for society. Ads are just psychological manipulation to trigger feelings of jealously and greed. Or producing new mixed plastic silicon junk with a 3-year supported software stack but could run for a decade but then millennia in the trash dump. PFAs in all our water supplies.

Okay even more demotivated now.

[TotalCrackpot → coryrc]

You may be interested in reading Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, he wrote about that: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullsh...

[vasco → coryrc]

Maybe change your perspective to be less sour about life, stress kills!

[aik → coryrc]

Then do something about it. Or if it bothers you too much but you’re not motivated enough to do anything about it, then it’s misplaced energy.