For most of us it's an indisputable fact of life: You gotta work. Unless you're born into money, it's a solid bet that at least five days a week you spend at least a third of your day doing something that results in a paycheck. And it's just as solid a bet that you spend a good deal of the rest of your time either preparing for work or recuperating from it. It's the trade-off most of us learned to make when we first realized that at some point mom and dad were going to stop paying for everything: You do what you HAVE to do in order to do what you WANT to do.
Somewhere only a few steps back along civilization's path of progress we accepted the notion that what we have to do and what we want to do are mutually exclusive concepts. Fortunately, we didn't stop at that point in the path, and that's exactly what Pekka Himanen's THE HACKER ETHIC is about.
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