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xkcd #2946: 1.2 Kilofives (xkcd.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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'Oh yeah? Give me 50 milliscore reasons why I should stop.'

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm just now realising he's much closer to my age than I thought, may there be many decades of xkcd to come

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I should email him and ask if three days a week is infrequent enough to avoid burnout. That’s pretty often to maintain such an incredible level of quality. (Tom Scott had enough after 10 years.) But maybe since it’s his full-time gig, it’s optimal - he can spend most of the week reading cool stuff that gives him tons of good ideas and he actually wouldn’t want to publish any less frequently.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I mean Randall has been doing the comic since like 2004 or something so I feel like if he was going to burn out, he would have by now. At this point him burning out would just be him retiring.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I used to frequent the same IRC channels as Randall; I always got the impression it's a case of "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life"

Edit: semicolon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Hell yeah