A little blog of questionable wisdom written by a builder of little games. I do a lot of little things these days. I hope some of them do a little good.
These posts are old and new, serious and absurd, technical yet philosophical. I’ve kept even the questionable bits—partly for nostalgia, mostly as proof that wisdom arrives slowly, if at all.
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hus·tle cul·ture ˈhə-səl ˈkəl-chər
noun
- the performance of results when actual results are missing; specif.: a workplace ethos where the appearance of extreme effort is rewarded more than the achievement of tangible outcomes.
- a management technique characterized by demanding longer work hours to compensate for a lack of strategic direction or a lack of management domain knowledge.
- archaic: the belief that professional success is directly and exclusively proportional to the time spent engaged in work-related activities.
See also: performative work, burnout culture, toxic productivity
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In the early 2000s, I worked for a digital video processing startup that Autodesk acquired. We were merged with another acquisition. Our team became the developers, their team (the “others”) became management. The others were clueless. They didn’t understand the technical domain, our customers, or the product. Naturally, I hated them. Their meetings were always pointless; I learned to skip them. Their product plan was a disaster. We secretly built our own, supposedly better version. We believed once upper management saw how superior ours was, we’d finally get rid of the others and everything would be good again.
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