I feel like these types of articles where the author attempts a deft explanation as to why work isn't work when you enoy it, are just annoying.
Surely as engineers, hackers, tech-minded people, we all know what the definition of work is. Nowhere in the definition of work does emotion come into play (unless your job description is to achieve a specific emotion).
This reminds me of a high school teacher of mine who used to heckle the football players asking them why they lifted weights and would say they're not actually accomplishing work(unless you're deadlifting, I guess). Most of them didn't understand which made it even more amusing.
I'd imagine most high-school level physics teachers make those kind of jokes, I know mine did. I never really liked them, or things like this: http://xkcd.com/123/ Regarding the jocks, they're still struggling with the fact that words don't have meanings, as properties of the words themselves; let alone the secondary problem of the same word having drastically different meanings.
Surely as engineers, hackers, tech-minded people, we all know what the definition of work is. Nowhere in the definition of work does emotion come into play (unless your job description is to achieve a specific emotion).
This reminds me of a high school teacher of mine who used to heckle the football players asking them why they lifted weights and would say they're not actually accomplishing work(unless you're deadlifting, I guess). Most of them didn't understand which made it even more amusing.