Ask HN: Why do you do, what you do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28420172

by lukasfischer • 5 years ago

5 8 5 years ago

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Open question.

azdle2• 5 years ago

Money

Edit: if I didn't need money to be able to continiue to live a comfortable life I'd quit my job (working for a cloud-based home IoT platform provider, which I hate at the moment) and do something more useful (at the moment, I'm thinking that's a cloud-free semi-self-arranging p2p IoT system, I mean, that would be super cool right?).

Edit2 (I'm super drunk right now edition): I work for SmartThings (a subsidiary of Samsung) because 1. I had a diabolocial plan since before I started here to slowly change it into a local IoT intergration platform since before I started. (Which I've finally released stage 1: https://community.smartthings.com/t/announcement-smartthings... ) and 2. I feel like this is.inconsequential enough that I'm at least not making the world worse than it already is. Also 3, I get paid $133900 a year base salary in Minneapolis which I thing is pretty good. (Lol, again back to money.)

Minor49er2• 5 years ago

AG, is that you?

azdle2• 5 years ago

I don't know what that would stand for, so, uh, probably not?

MattGaiser• 5 years ago

Interest or it was boring but the reward was big enough.

PaulHoule• 5 years ago

Beautiful home and family. Office that overlooks a baseball field. A viable product where I'm integrated in the team. Animals. Nature. Seeing another reflected (as if in a mirror) by the computer.

Interesting people on my floor.

I used to play a lot video games. I put down the controller and now I apply "level design" to the physical universe.

approxim8ion• 5 years ago

Food on the table.

unearth3d• 5 years ago

Design industrial landscapes as I'm good at it, the only task I've found makes life make sense, allows me to work (mostly) alone. I need to make $ to live, and repairing Earth seems a constructive lifeway.

Currently learning to scale landscape architecture to regional, transbounday and planet scales.

If I didn't need money? I'd still do what I'm doing now just more larger difficult sites, or become a full-time climate activist (both are very similar to me).

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