(Self review) I stand by this essay and think more people should read it, though they don’t need to read it deeply.
I think some people knew this kind of work and so this serves as a pointer to “yeah, that thing we did at my last company” and some people did not realize this was an option. Making people aware of potentially exciting options they could choose in life is (in my opinion) a good use of an essay. In my ideal world everyone would read something describing the One Day Sooner mindset as they were choosing their first careers so they could have it in mind as a possible trait jobs could have. Is that trait positive or negative? Depends on the person!
I don’t know if it’s LessWrong Best Of material, but given the number of people who work in this manner that work in the community I think it’s good to have some term for it in the water supply.
(Self review) I stand by this essay and think more people should read it, though they don’t need to read it deeply.
I think some people knew this kind of work and so this serves as a pointer to “yeah, that thing we did at my last company” and some people did not realize this was an option. Making people aware of potentially exciting options they could choose in life is (in my opinion) a good use of an essay. In my ideal world everyone would read something describing the One Day Sooner mindset as they were choosing their first careers so they could have it in mind as a possible trait jobs could have. Is that trait positive or negative? Depends on the person!
I don’t know if it’s LessWrong Best Of material, but given the number of people who work in this manner that work in the community I think it’s good to have some term for it in the water supply.
Best when paired with Never Drop A Ball.