What it means is that working on Dart is my job. It's a great job, and I love it. Like other good jobs, I get lots of both extrinsic and intrinsic reward from it. (In fact, a curious facet of being at Google is that the intrinsic rewards of being at the company feel like they overshadow the extrinsic ones. I'm constantly in this "and you pay me too?!" fugue of astonishment.)
But it also means that working on Dart is work. I do some extra-curricular activities related to it: I've spoken at a couple of conferences. But even then, I'm getting time off from work for free to go there, so in some sense I'm still being compensated.
I spend time answering questions about Dart online outside of work hours, but that's because, through some Hermione-like mental affliction, I will spend time answering questions about anything I know (and several things I don't).
But, aside from that, I actually don't do much of anything Dart-related when I get off work. Dart is what I do 40 hours a week. It's a happy 40 hours, but when I go home, I stop working on it and stop thinking about it.
Would I hack on it until the wee hours if I wasn't getting paid to do it while the sun was up? I don't know.
I've been grappling with this question because I, myself, have been paid to contribute to OSS for the last few years. I think my experience is much more blurry than yours is, at least with work/life separation.
I think my experience is much more blurry than yours is, at least with work/life separation.
Well one thing that definitely helps is having two small kids. :)
I basically have to have a strong work/non-work separation now because most of my evening is booked solid with dinner/clean up/pajamas/brush teeth/vitamins/books/stories. Back before I was a family man the boundary between work and the rest of my life was a lot squishier.
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Aren't you paid by Google to work on Dart? Apologies if I have the entirely wrong person.
How is that different?
I am, this is a great question!
What it means is that working on Dart is my job. It's a great job, and I love it. Like other good jobs, I get lots of both extrinsic and intrinsic reward from it. (In fact, a curious facet of being at Google is that the intrinsic rewards of being at the company feel like they overshadow the extrinsic ones. I'm constantly in this "and you pay me too?!" fugue of astonishment.)
But it also means that working on Dart is work. I do some extra-curricular activities related to it: I've spoken at a couple of conferences. But even then, I'm getting time off from work for free to go there, so in some sense I'm still being compensated.
I spend time answering questions about Dart online outside of work hours, but that's because, through some Hermione-like mental affliction, I will spend time answering questions about anything I know (and several things I don't).
But, aside from that, I actually don't do much of anything Dart-related when I get off work. Dart is what I do 40 hours a week. It's a happy 40 hours, but when I go home, I stop working on it and stop thinking about it.
Would I hack on it until the wee hours if I wasn't getting paid to do it while the sun was up? I don't know.
Thanks this makes total sense.
I've been grappling with this question because I, myself, have been paid to contribute to OSS for the last few years. I think my experience is much more blurry than yours is, at least with work/life separation.
Well one thing that definitely helps is having two small kids. :)
I basically have to have a strong work/non-work separation now because most of my evening is booked solid with dinner/clean up/pajamas/brush teeth/vitamins/books/stories. Back before I was a family man the boundary between work and the rest of my life was a lot squishier.