[lucasnemeth]

Interesting article.

Just a note on the biblical reference: The moral angle that thinks it is important to love your work comes from a more protestant view of the Bible. Martin Luther defined that wordly work is a duty that benefits the individual and society, it is an extension of the concept of good works in catholicism. From a protestant perspective, work ethic is very important, because the "good works" are not only charity work, our wordly daily work is a work of mercy as well. It must be done in benefit of society. Even though it is a more lutheran concept, it is very influential in the states, the "self-made man" myth, the importance of the person that goes up the social ladder on perseverance, is very influenced by this protestant ethic. So, the view of love thy colleague, but not your work, is more akin to a catholic thinking. Countries that have a very strong catholic tradition such as spain or ireland, tend to have different work ethics than germany or the netherlands.

[_yosefk]

I've never lived in either a Protestant or a Catholic country (I've lived in an Orthodox country and a Jewish one), so the following guess isn't based on much first-hand experience, but I'd guess that "love your work" in the Protestant sense is probably closer to what I mean by my tongue-in-Bible "love thy coworker" than to "program for free during your weekends and publish code on github." That is, "work ethic" - yes, but because that's the proper way to get things in return for things in a society, not because nothing is more fun than neural monadic closures.