If you had the choice to sculpt a leg chair out of wood or write a full-fledged audio engine, complete with kernel drivers and whatnot, inside an app for controlling monitor brightness, what wou… Wait, no, that's not a question, you would do the leg chair for sure. There's no way that other thing makes sense.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15205399

Really cool blog post with beautiful photos and starts with a fun and interesting intro, here captured in an image for the the tl;dr but-want-to-comment-anyway among you :

  • @[email protected]English
    -6•2 months ago

    There’s satisfaction to be found when labour results in a tangible and lasting result.

    Nothing human is eternal. But you’re speaking in absolutes and I challenge that. Give me intellectual challenges, I couldn’t care less about making a nice chair or a sculpture.

    Too many jobs at startups

    That’s the problem. You can try elsewhere, maybe?

    • @[email protected]English
      6•2 months ago

      You’re probably an asshole to everyone around you if you think the only intellectual jobs are ones that are done sitting at a desk.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•2 months ago

      If you don’t think building chairs or sculptures requires solving “intellectual” challenges you’ve never tried building a completely wooden multi-axial interlocking joint furniture…