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Another, less colorful, way to put this is "don't put anything on your resume you don't want to do more of".

I know folks who have taken old technologies (perl, ASP.NET) off their resume so that they don't get approached by employers looking to hire for technologies they don't want to work in.

This blog post is interesting in that it could be a tweet. The title is the whole thing.
Vibes seem off with some of the stuff doing well on hn today
There are a couple of reasons to do well on the job: it might be a joyful activity, it leads to better opportunities, it teaches a lesson that can be used starting something, or it ensures employment.

If none of these things have appeal, then one should carefully think about being in that job.

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"The reward for good work is more work."

- timm chiusano

This is the sort of thing that sounds like insight to a creative 12 year-old who swears he will never settle for a “desk job.”

A career is actually a contest where the prize is money that you can buy things with, including pie.

This is just a phrase repeated 3 times in a page?
The whole post is the same short thought repeated over and over.

My recommendation to the author is to read and reflect on “Atomic blog posts”¹, by Mike Crittenden. I’ll reproduce it here in its entirety:

> There’s no law that says a blog post needs more than one idea or more than one sentence.

¹ https://critter.blog/2021/01/06/atomic-blog-posts/

While the concept of atomic blogposts is a nice one, I think this characterisation is a bit unfair in this case.

In my view he put four separate but related and logically linked nice thoughts together, and tried to link them all thematically by restating the pie analogy briefly each time.

And the post was otherwise quite short and punchy.

I read this comment before the post itself and I expected to read some sort of lengthy AI slop repeating the same idea ad nauseam, but it was nothing of the sort.

People forget that in the long history of human civilization, the idea of working as an employee of a big company only goes back about 150 years, the idea of white collar office work in that context only goes back about 75 years, and the idea of a "career" (as opposed to just doing the same job forever) is even newer.
"If you want to get something done, give it to the busy person"
Evidently this post is excellent in its brevity, redundancy and effectiveness in getting its point across.

And flawed for the same reasons, if not for my suspicion that this is a fragment of a greater point that the author is trying to make that can be further contextualized against the posts adjacent to this one, except that there is no date on this individual post nor are they any on the main “blog” index that would allow me to orientate myself thereby.

So I’m loving the mixed reactions that this is getting. And I reckon that the author could elaborate better through either a change of format (like a book) or UX revisions.

The prize for winning is two people who both want you to eat their particular pie and you say you’ll eat for the one who pays you the most.
Or you get to stay employed. If you don't like it, start a company or become a contractor/consultant. I've only been contracting for the last decade.

A company just gave me more work. It nearly doubled my income.

I don't understand. Pie = money. Yeah and we go around the sun?
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Life is like that. The reward of a successful marriage is staying married.
I'm reminded of the episode of the Strange Planet television series in which a "flying machine comfort supervisor" (flight attendant) is called before Being Resources, where she is promoted to comfort supervisor supervisor. "Our data show you handled your responsibilities well. Your reward is more responsibility."
A career is a pie eating contest where the prize for winning is money you invest so you never have to work again.