"Only free, meaningful labor, performed for a purpose that in itself represents an undying value, can be joyful."1
It is a great happiness to have one Goal for a whole lifetime! The path is clear, even if shrouded in mist; you wake up and you go. A Lighthouse burns ahead. Not peace, but certainty, harmony with yourself, and much joyful Labor.
How do you discover your Goal, what you were born for?
What philosophy lies at the foundation of LaborGit? What are we building? What is our faith?
The answer is simple: "Each person lives many times, and each of their lives is labor, labor from century to century."
This is a quote from the second volume of the wisest book "Two Lives" by K. Antarova (http://vedin-svet.narod.ru/kn/3_dve_jizni.htm).
In the book "Memo: Secrets of Creating Characters in a Screenplay" (https://alpinabook.ru/catalog/book-memo), authors Vogler and McKenna teach that for a good story, you need to define the main theme of the work and answer the question "What does the protagonist want?" Without this, the story won't begin.
So what does our protagonist—the faithful LaborGit user—want?
We need to explain the motto of our labor philosophy in more detail.
The first and main objection we encounter.
"What about work that makes you sick? What about imposed, alienated labor and its extreme form – slavery? Is that also not in vain? Would you like to try it yourself?"
Labor and Joy – the exhaustive components of a full life. More on Labor later, now about Joy.
"— What's there to especially rejoice about?
— Well that, brother, I don't know. If you know how to rejoice – rejoice, if you don't – then sit there. They don't ask about that..." (https://vkvideo.ru/video-20286388_456240046?sh=4&t=5m50s)
Do you observe yourself when communicating with people? What exactly do you observe? Do you criticize yourself? For what exactly?
Let's say you're on a development team and you practice a daily standup. At this short morning meeting, everyone talks about what they did yesterday and what they will do today. So, do you observe yourself at that moment? How do you usually phrase things? "I did, I thought, I, I, I." I, me, mine (https://vkvideo.ru/video72349732_456257000?sh=4)
"I am Working" — a phrase that justifies everything. We humbly disagree.
Hiding behind "I am Working." What is Work? What is Labor?
Work is a facade. Labor is the boost of your soul along the chain of Lives.
A slave on a galley. A real slave on a real galley, 500 years ago. Is that Labor or Work? If done with humility, it is Labor. And it is not in vain. If done with "I hate this," then it is Work.
No labor is ever done in vain.
2022-01-09
Yegor Bugayenko (@yegor256news) believes that "there should be pay for results, not for time".
Microtasks, micropayments, "8 blocks of results to get paid for 8 hours," people as a function — pure @Zerocracy.
This is a crystal-correct but Nietzschean philosophy. With no regard for the Human.
Recently on Hacker News there was a post where a guy showed some interesting graphs from logging 10 years of his life.
The guy is 27 years old, American of Asian descent. Since age 17, he logs everything, even the mode of transportation he uses. He doesn't use social media. He plays 9 musical instruments. A programmer at Duolingo. There's an excellent life-graph on the front page of his site (https://chaidarun.com).
