Tom Says: Code something crazy every day you feel like it!
These are strange ideas to some people.
I think that what I love changes too often to do it full-time for money and enjoy myself. I will end up doing what I only like, so I don't want it to take up too much of my time. That time could be better traded for doing what I love. Work is work. Computer science is play.
Jeff is going to head off for the real business world. He will get paid to do programming, straight-up computer science, the stuff we love. I think that he will always love computer science, but I cannot tell if he will love the work which tries to be it, because work is work.
He and others do not understand my drive to work at a tiny company. I want to work enough to be able to do the things I want to do, and no more. Most people want this, but don't know how to get it. I will make sure I get it no matter what. A tiny company forces the people who demand longer hours to be the people who have to work them. I would not demand too much of myself.
If I weren't a computer scientist, I would be an artist. I would probably be hungry a lot.
Posted Dec 21, 2007, in the early morning.