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

5 pointslukasfischer8 comments

Open question.

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.)

AG, is that you?

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

Ah, nevermind. I worked with someone who now works at SmartThings (at least as far as I'm aware, they're still there). You sounded like you are at the same level as where they would be, so I mistakenly guessed that you were the same person.

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).

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.

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

Food on the table.

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