[crispinb]

I'd like to push back a bit on the 'hobby' terminology. It seems to rest, or at least lends fuel to, an assumption that work is of primary value. That may be true for some, and probably more in a field like tech than many, but it's not universal, and certainly not structural.

In my case many of the things I do (reading, sailing, running, political activism, meditating, etc etc) are each far more important to me than work, which is just a (somewhat reluctantly engaged in) physical necessity. It handles the bottom level of Maslow's hierarchy. The upper levels are more than hobbys!

I realise you probably just grabbed word out of the lexicon without necessarily meaning as much by it as I'm making out. Still, I dislike the word.