Metadata
- Author: Slava Akhmechet
- Full Title:: Surviving disillusionment
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://www.spakhm.com/p/surviving-disillusionment
- Finished date:: 2023-09-10
Highlights
One reality is the atmosphere of new technology, its incredible power to transform the human condition, the joy of the art of doing science and engineering, the trials of the creative process, the romance of the frontier. The other reality is the frustration and drudgery of operating in a world of corporate politics, bureaucracy, envy and greed— a world so depressing, that many people quit in frustration, never to come back. (View Highlight)
Develop a routine to keep drudgery away and the romance of technology close (View Highlight)
Maybe it’s an emergent property, maybe it’s an accident, maybe it’s by design; it doesn’t matter why, but the industry burns through people. If you leave your love of programming and the feeling of the computer revolution romance on autopilot, the industry will burn through you. It’s your responsibility to know exactly why you’re doing the specific job you’re doing, what your long-term goal is, how to develop a credible plan to achieve it, and what you need to do (and not to do) to keep your underground spring of creativity alive.