| I don't have any business side projects or anything that earns money but my motivation fluctuates like the author of this article. I am super grateful for Python, Java, JavaScript, C, Rust, Flask, Firefox, Google Chrome, the Java Virtual Machine, Google's V8 engine, GCC, Postgresql, Clang and other open source projects. They allow me to write software and get paid money in jobs. And they're completely free. So good. People like choosing what they work on and what they spend their time on. But there's business necessity that means we often need to do tasks we secretly don't want to do. Or feel forced to work on technology we don't agree with. I think it is unfortunate that amazing products go the financial path and then lose their energy and become monetisation over quality or passion such as Heroku But I said that we cannot force people to work on things we want them to. I feel we need to determine the properties of a product that guarantee monetisation AND quality and passion of its developers. Are Jetbrains the example of this? |