That’s an important point. In 2016, John Carmack is speaking as a manager who doesn’t even have to show up for his job about wanting to extract more value from the employees working under him on his hobby project. He wants them to work harder on his stupid VR goggles fetish.

It had been more than 20 years since Carmack pulled an all nighter working on Doom, and he’s been coasting along ever since.