The hacker ethic
by Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds · first published 2000
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Yes. See also a great little book from ages ago called "The Hacker Ethic" by Pekka Himanen, which examines and critiques this "Protestant work ethic".
on “How people learn to become resilient (2016)” ↗See also the classic book "The Hacker Ethic" by Pikka Himanen (foreword by Linus Torvalds). https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4690
on “Work Hard (2007)” ↗If you're honestly asking this question, I think you've missed the point of a lot of what's said here on HN. You might even want to pick up a copy of "The Hacker Ethic" by Pekka Himanen.
on “Y Combinator is prohibited” ↗…typo in the quote attribution; "Hacker's" should be "Hackers" The Open Library page for the book in question, where you can borrow a digital copy to read, is https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7921693W/The_hacker_ethic
on “Rich to Open Source” ↗…lifetime and not to expect to be with the same employer throughout my career as my grandparents were. I just see it as the new normal; a symptom of a network economy as Pekka Himanen describes in The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. A bunch of people get together, build something cool, make some money and move on. We're not in the business of building widgets on an assembly line after all. But…
on “Ask HN: What do you think of job hopping?” ↗The Hacker Ethic by Pekka Himanen ... TL;DR
on “Four days in the life of HN” ↗