The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
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#2Is it generally easy for people to get permission from their day job to code on the side, without assigning all rights to the employer?
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#3This is excellent advice. Just by doing something, the habit gets created and the longer it gets, the easier it is to get started.
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#4Excellent advice.
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#5Joel Spolsky said something similar. Paraphrasing: You find motivation by just committing a little bit every day: 10 minutes, 30 minutes. Once you get into it, you'll most likely do more.
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#6Is it generally easy for people to get permission from their day job to code on the side, without assigning all rights to the employer?
Depends on the state. You definitely shouldn't use work computers or do it on work time.
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#7Is it generally easy for people to get permission from their day job to code on the side, without assigning all rights to the employer?
Depends on your specific contract. Mine just bans me from machine learning related work.
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#9Is it generally easy for people to get permission from their day job to code on the side, without assigning all rights to the employer?
Depends on jurisdiction. In places with reasonable copyright laws, you'd have to do weird things to end up in the “employer takes rights” situation in the first place.
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#10Is it generally easy for people to get permission from their day job to code on the side, without assigning all rights to the employer?
These days, many companies are cool with it as long as you use your personal machine, on your own time, avoid using any work resources, etc. Usually it's baked into your employment contract.