Bored People Quit
Axiom: Boring work can never compete with Hacker News.<p>Axiom: Hacker News can never compete with interesting work.<p>Theorem: The interestingness of my work is inversely related to my Hacker News participation.<p>Supporting data: Today I'm regression testing. I'll be here all day, folks.<p>Idea: Employers, monitor your logs for Hacker News. Occasional spikes probably indicate boring, but necessary tasks. Chronic use probably means your devs are bored. Bored devs probably means you better take a deep hard look at everything else.