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Back in my day, "easter eggs" used to be cool.

How is this pdf cool?

Back in my day easter eggs were fun.

Tech isn't about fun any more. It's about making huge stacks of cash. We used to build things because it was fun and half-way artistic. Now we only build things if we think we can convince a VC to give us cash for it.

Though... I suppose this isn't exactly the venue to encourage people to do things simply for the joy of it.

[Also... you kids get off my lawn!]

> Now we only build things if we think we can convince a VC to give us cash for it.

Huh? Just because some person A somewhere builds something for cash, doesn't mean that there's no person B somewhere else building something for fun.

what was the last thing you built for fun?

I wouldn't work in tech what you said were to be true.

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