Modified: April 04, 2022
fun is good
This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.Should I give up having fun in order to do impactful things? It'd be tempting to think that it'd be more virtuous to be serious and mission-driven. There's a place for those attributes, but at the same time it's important to have fun even (especially!) when working in pursuit of serious causes.
Fun is contagious and positive sum: your lightheartedness brightens the days of the people around you. People want to work with people who are enjoying themselves. If I'm having fun, that will attract people to work with me on things that I think are important. In that way fun is a productivity multiplier.
Finding a way to have fun doing what I want to do is also a way of ensuring that I myself will stay motivated to do it.
Churchill admitted (paraphrasing) that it was fun and exciting to direct the conduct of a war. He admitted that war was tragic, but since it needed to be fought, he might as well stay in a good mood to fight it as effectively as possible.TODO: reference quotes, from WW1 Admiralty era?