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Background Work: Establishing credibility by indulging engineering curiosity (medium.com/kentbeck_7670)
41 points by KentBeck on Dec 10, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



He seems to be saying something very much along the lines of [1].

However, I don't like the work clock centric viewpoint. In my own experience this kind of pattern:

> My own experience of background work, though, is that sometimes my curiosity gets the best of me at inopportune times, like 4 AM, and I need to just go do the work.

is not a good thing IMO.

[1] https://blog.bityard.net/articles/2019/August/rabbit-holes-t...


This fits me to a T.

I would imagine it fits most of us active on HN as well. Always an interesting set of content and usually an even more interesting set of comments.




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