[raphaelb]

For me, DWYL has always not meant "forget about whatever else is going on in the world and do your own thing", like their example of forgoing finance & law to study Norse mythology.

I always figured it was a perhaps incomplete counter to a previous time where there was an expectation you should not enjoy what you do. Many people talk about hating their work, etc. Perhaps it goes too far in the opposite direction and implies a selfish view, but in my opinion we needed a little bit of that move in this direction. Maybe we went too far and it needs to be adapted to something else, such as "Do what you love, that also has value to society" or something.

I definitely agree with the digs against off the clock "well you should love what you do, so keep doing it for free!" stuff though.