It’s 11:43pm on a Monday night. My 6-week-old son is asleep in my office so my wife can get some uninterrupted rest for the first half of the night. He’s finally asleep now, and I probably should be also after a full day of work. But I’m not done for the day. Even though I’m a software engineer by trade, I’m also a computer programmer by hobby and passion. So I do what I’ve been doing for well over a decade now: I boot up my computer to write some code.
The time wasted writing that whinging blog post could have been used to write working software.
Or enjoying life.
Or literally doing anything else
Such as whinging about someone’s blog post apparently.
Or comment on someone’s comment about a blog.
I wasn’t the one judging someone for posting complaints on the internet, while posting a complaint on the internet.
We’re all here “wasting time”.
Indeed, some people prefer to do something productive with that wasted time, though. And most of us are quite grateful to them.