How do you position your FoC interest in your work/life? Open Slack to cast your vote in this Simple Poll Open Slack to cast your vote in this Simple Poll Simple Poll Edit Settings

Just really curious how everyone identifies, from what I see most people somewhat feel they can only work alone / on-the-side for their FoC interest

I put 2, but I'm really somewhere between 2 and 3.

I was doing FoC full-time in academia, and probably wouldn’t have left if this Slack had existed.

@Daniel Hines Same here, employer are fine with me exploring things, but it's probably unrealistic to expect enough work time to turn those explorations into production ready, polished experiences. And I feel without that many users wouldn't take those "experiments" very seriously 😞

The tool I'm making (Hest) is for my coworkers first and foremost. On the plus, that means I get to spend a lot of time on it. On the minus, it means I can only pursue ideas that fit our needs, and that I can implement myself relatively quickly.

@Pine Wu It wouldn’t have been as isolating. The only person nearby who talked about this stuff was my advisor. There’s a lot of interesting viewpoints here. :)

I put 1 but I'm quitting my job next week so i will shift to 7 soon 🙂

@Scott Anderson if industry allows you to pursue your FoC vision full time, why quit?

@Ivan Reese Saw your pinned tweet and hest seems pretty cool! Currently I'm trying to teach someone programming and I feel with hest it'd be much easier to explain loops (I'm showing her python tutor, but animation is always more intuitive)

@yairchu a lot of reasons, mostly boring work\office things that cause people to leave jobs (long commute, team culture, etc.) From an FoC vision standpoint ultimately I tried to sell my vision and ended up with a relatively compromised version. That in combination with not really being excited about the product I was implementing the system for. At some point I decided I'd rather pursue my actual vision (VR fantasy console) than try to build systems for ill-defined Facebook products.