On: Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990)

[asah]

He buried the lede: "Drawing comic strips for five years without pay drove home the point that the fun of cartooning wasn't in the money; it was in the work."

My advice is similar: don't do what you love, do what you can stand doing for 10 hours a day.

When people ask about software development, I say: can you debug one line of code for 10 hours straight? if so, then you can be a software engineer.

(actually, I've had to chase bugs for 3+ days straight, but I don't mention this lest it scare the kiddies...)

[dkqmduems → asah]

3+ days is standard for code in academia hahah.

[algeom → dkqmduems]

Academic mathematician here. I’ve been stuck on something for the last 20 years.

[blast → algeom]

Can you tell us what it is?

[KRAKRISMOTT → blast]

Prove this, and the Fields is yours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture

[kwelstr → KRAKRISMOTT]

I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)