Interfacing with Zig, a BDFL-run project

Loved the embedded tweet:

“If you bond with others over how bad things are, you create incentive to maintain badness.

If you bond over how cool things could be, you create incentive to improve and learn what else is possible.”

Find myself recommitting to live by this on a personal level.

I also note (with a sense of resignation) that some organizations create structures/roles that make it harder for some individuals to be able to embrace such a mantra. I wish the quote wasn’t just for individuals, but for groups to aspire to.

This led me to the water-cooler complains video https://youtu.be/9E_rtUgUF58 and it is a good point. We somehow tend to find solace in engaging in water cooler complaints. If I were to change one thing about my professional career, especially in the early days is avoid the water-cooler complaints and people who are engaging in them as well. It is definitely a time sink and no one is benefiting from it.