Grindhouse – A developer community for embracing the grind
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Re: Grindhouse – A developer community for embracing the grind
#2What does the title mean? Being on social media is the opposite of "grinding" unless you run an direct to consumer business or an mlm. And if you run a direct to consumer business then this site is only helpful if your target audience is developers.
Re: Grindhouse – A developer community for embracing the grind
#3Seems like an attempt to re-define "the grind". According to Urban Dictionary[0], this has connoted:
staying "on the grind" means to work hard, always be hustling, or otherwise engaged in money-making or woman-procuring activities.
I'm not sure if this really ailgns with the mission statement. It's a phrase that's synonymous with "ambition", which historically had negative meanings[1][2]. Passionate artists for example usually suffer a lot, while the "ambitious" ones go too far in either trading the soul of their art for money[3] or try to restricting others from engaging with it is meaningful ways[4]. In many domains, not only art, prioritizing the grind over production creates a hostile environment where others have to lose. It's not possible to achieve without doing moral injury[5] to one's self.
[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=on+the+grind
[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/ambition
[2] https://reference.jrank.org/governance/Ambition.html
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817713