#Attention this is about #Facebook: The #Hacker Way vs Forced Happinesses
To really drive the point home, let’s consider an example entirely outside the realm of engineering: happiness. We all know that we smile because we are happy. That is a causal relationship. What is surprising is that if we #force ourselves to smile we can actually improve our mood. Smiling more makes you happier whether or not the smile was natural. The #brain is a complex system which apparently struggles with causality and we can take advantage of that to achieve a better result for ourselves. It is cheating. It shouldn’t work. But it does. Hacking can literally make you happier.
So they hacked themself - no shit Sherlock :( First of all, this really works. I use this trick when I'm totally bummed and don't want anyone to know. But how inhumanly broken must the exploitation machinery in commercial software development be, if this is part of the standard for the staff. Please promise me that you will immediately run away if your project management ever asks you to do something like that.
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