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Friday Apr 11, 2003

But, being productive is fun.

Comments[3] by Dave in General

Matt made some insightful comments about what he calls America's obsession with productivity. I'm not sure this is only an American phenomenon, but it is a truism. If you are lucky enough to love the work you do, as is the case for many software developers and especially open source developers, then this is not necessarily a sad phenomenon.

Being productive means different things to different people. For me, it means designing and developing software. I've found that when I'm designing or developing something interesting at work, I have much less of a desire to work on side projects in the evening. I seem to have a need to develop software and if that need is not fulfilled at work, I have to do it after hours. My wife has noticed this and once caused me a little embarrassment. One year, at a company christmas party, she told the VP of development "why don't you give Dave something interesting to do, so he doesn't have to write code all night."

One year blogaversary!

Comments[1] by Dave in Blogging

As of today, I've been blogging for one year. I wrote my first post (also duplicated on this site) using Radio, and I didn't move over to Roller until June.

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