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I gotta disagree here. Boredom is where all my ideas come from. Boredom is the catalyst to wondering how Xyz works.

Boredom is taking an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and then realising you can put a front end on that and do it as a service for people who don't have that skillset.

No boredom, no hacking.

The second para though is not part of boredom.

The second paragraph was a HN-jokey way to describe hacking a project from a personal itch to a service with a target market

Well, some hackers are also Buddhists, which don't tend to view boredom like that.

And that is how we get Bodhi Linux. ;)

Not my experience. I'm happy to hack things so I have more alone space and time too. I don't see the two opposed at all.

This sounds like a quote from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

Motivation to explore/create <> motivation to avoid boredom.

"enemy" ... "at war with" ... "death" ... such metaphors.

As a hacker, boredom is a powerful motivator and creator.

As a hacker,