Please Let Me Monetize My Hobbies
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Please Let Me Monetize My Hobbies
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#2Somberness and relevance aside, I can feel the disappointment in it, the writing is beautiful and a work of poetry.
Also I like how there is a counter on the github site.
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#3A story and cautionary tale of what happened to YouTube, and indeed all extant social media platforms that have been around for a while.
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#4I’m sure there is a trade-off here:
- going hard on monetization will train you in how to… well, monetize and run a business
- just enjoying yourself is the most sustainable way to build things quickly and strike upon your magnum opus
The ideal is to have something fantastic you can live off.
The extremes are both “poor sap grinding away at mediocrity” but one poor sap is happier than the other.
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#6Sounds like this was written by someone who already has plenty of money. Lots of creative types are great at what they do and would like to make a living at it, only to discover that they’re way underpaid compared to STEM.
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#7I heard from n Planet Money story that 1 in 4 gen-z-ers want to be an influencer because they want to receive free products or play videos games and get paid. Which is great but the thing they don’t realize is they would be running a business and everything, including the parts they think is the main focus of the business, becomes second to actually maintaining the business.
Not trying to be disparaging to Gen-Z, that’s just an example of a mental trap we fall into. We tend to underestimate the time and effort of the things we don’t want to do and overestimate the time we will spend and then resulting enjoyment of the thing that we fine the most pleasurable.
This is why certain hobbies of mine will stay “pure” hobbies for me. The moment I start doing it for money and I’m the one doing business opts too, it becomes so much less fun, which was the point of me getting into that hobby.
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#8I heard from n Planet Money story that 1 in 4 gen-z-ers want to be an influencer because they want to receive free products or play videos games and get paid. Which is great but the thing they don’t realize is they would be running a business and everything, including the parts they think is the main focus of the business, becomes second to actually maintaining the business. Not trying to be disparaging to Gen-Z, tha…
Gen Z seems more anti-work than most generations, and I really hope that pushes them to be less apathetic than Gen X/Millenials with regards to worker's rights, reduced work weeks, universal healthcare, and possibly even UBI.
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#9> Please, let me turn my relaxing gaming sessions into high-pressure performances with commentary. Who wouldn’t enjoy transforming a leisurely pastime into a taxing job, complete with an audience to please?
I have recently started uploading videos of myself revisiting two of my favourite games of all time to YouTube.[1] I have found the experience to be a lot fun, still relaxing, and not at all stressful, high-pressure or taxing. In fact, it's been a great experience to finally express my thoughts about these games and the themes they cover out loud.
I'll probably continue recording and uploading the games that I play, I am interested in watching back my first playthroughs of games in the future, watching back my reactions when my mind was blown by a plot twist, a new boss, or a new mechanic. I really wish I had done this the first time I played games like Elden Ring or Zelda: BOTW.
Maybe my wife, my children and grandchildren will watch these videos of one of the most childlike sides of me when I'm long gone.
Perhaps more relevant to the tone of the post, I am starting to feel this way about programming. Programming is perhaps my most creative hobby, and as more and more time passes I feel similar feelings towards writing code to massively enrich execs and investors, working on codebases for products I couldn't care less about.
[1]: Sekiro and Cloudpunk (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeai3-do-9O4MNy9_xjO6mg)
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#10I heard from n Planet Money story that 1 in 4 gen-z-ers want to be an influencer because they want to receive free products or play videos games and get paid. Which is great but the thing they don’t realize is they would be running a business and everything, including the parts they think is the main focus of the business, becomes second to actually maintaining the business. Not trying to be disparaging to Gen-Z, tha…
Gen Z seems more anti-work than most generations, and I really hope that pushes them to be less apathetic than Gen X/Millenials with regards to worker's rights, reduced work weeks, universal healthcare, and possibly even UBI.
As a Gen Z I can vouch for this statement. There are so many times where I just look at what alot of my peers spend their time doing and I think I'm so out of place...Where is the work ethic?? the desire to improve.
However I can also say that there are always some good apples in the midst of the bad ones and that we aren't all that bad!