In many ways I think the motivation for doing stupid work emanates from fear.

我觉得在很多方面，做愚蠢工作的动机来自于恐惧。

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Depending on your field of expertise your idea of stupid work might be different from mine.

由于专业领域的不同对愚蠢工作的看法也可能会有不同。

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“Stupid work” happens when you give into fear, give up creative control, and stop doing work that matters.

当你向恐惧屈服、放弃创造的自由度并停止做相关的事项的时候，你通常会做一些“愚蠢的工作”。

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You can very quickly drive yourself nuts by sitting down, thinking, oh, I can write this program, no sweat, and then you write it and then there's a tiny little mistake here, but then there's a tiny little mistake here and here, and all of these stupid little things cascade until you try running your program, and the thing just doesn't work.

如果你只是仅仅干坐着，不费吹灰之力，凭空幻想着我可以把这个项目搞定，你会想地发疯的，也许你会写出一点东西出来，可能会有一点点错误,紧接着这或那又出现一点小错误，这些小错误一点一点地堆积了起来,直到你开始运行你整个项目，你会发现这堆东西根本就不工作。

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