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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2025
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As a dude that has walked away from tech madness... I reflect now, and as much as I did some insanely challenging and rewarding stuff in my career, and as much as I was addicted to solving those problems, I seriously do not envy anybody having to do novel research in this area. The amount of work to realize a dead end would be existentially draining to me. But there's also something about being on the bleeding edge...
I am a mathematician, and yes to everything. I had a couple of research lines that, after months or years turned out to be useless/inapplicable/… and it is a rough blow to handle when that happens. Usually compensated by the other research lines or the thought of all you learned along the way. Overall, I am still in love with research, but it’s not for everyone.
Thank you for sharing your personal story! I relate so much!
I was a major contributor to the underlying technology and game systems that drove the world's first internet-enabled touch screen game network. We had crazy score comparison patents, all kinds of shit going man - we were hitting on all cylinders. Partnership with American Games, AMOA, Monolith, major PC distributors like Compaq, tie into in-house developed probability contest back-end ... we were exhibiting at the computer game developers conferences.
After three and a half years, it alllllllllll ended up in a puff of smoke. Although I developed some amazing technologies, not one of those things ended up seeing the light of day. Fuck. Me.
I worked on so many firsts in the gaming sector and the truth is, 90% of them at minimum were a complete waste of resources in terms of bringing a product to bear.
But through it all, it was the passion to find problems that needed solving, and then solving them that really drove me so at least I had that!