[davi]

Let me offer a different summary:

The greatest satisfaction to a hacker is to produce output that gives the hacker pleasure to look at, think about, and use.

Achieving this satisfaction is an iterative hill climbing optimization. Each iteration depends on making something. By making lots of shit (there's that word), you get to see what output gives you satisfaction; and you feel some satisfaction, which gives you the energy to make more. Notice what you made that gives you pleasure, and how you made it. Repeat until you are a satisfied Hacker.

(I agree that the word got so overused I couldn't parse the writing very well -- like if you say the word 'apple' 100 times, you start to forget what it means -- or like the way if you eliminate microsaccades, foveated objects start to disappear [1].)

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16423702