Daily Dose of Curious

Curiosity is not a break from the work. On the good days it is the work.

13 SEP 2026CURIOSITY

It gets treated as the thing you do once the real job is finished. Almost everything I have been paid for started as someone wondering how a thing worked, and almost everything I have built started as someone being unable to leave it alone.

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