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  • mr_daemonmr_daemon@untrusted.website
    Aug 30, 2026, 7:24 PM

    I've always compartmentalized work. I like the work, I don't always love the _job_, which is the context in which I do the work, and those are two separate things.

    There always were communities where you could find people like me who just, you know, really really like what they do and it's their whole thing, trying to make things they find beautiful.

    Lately I don't feel like like that's true anymore, and I sit there uncomfortably, with a sense of "well, where do I go then?"

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  • mr_daemonmr_daemon@untrusted.website
    Aug 30, 2026, 7:38 PM

    I've been doing this shit for over 30 years at this point, and watching the last refuges away from corporate nightmares run full speed towards the same, on purpose, has been disheartening in a fundamental way.

    Without a place to remember "oh yeah right, I actually love everything about this" periodically, I genuinely find myself not knowing how to deal. Maybe I'm blowing it out of proportion for myself. Maybe poking at my lab and my own projects is enough. But I worry.

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