stackyFACTSIgnoring your employer is the secret ingredient to inventing the first-person shooter genre.
Ignoring your employer is the secret ingredient to inventing the first-person shooter genre. While employed by Softdisk to make boring, monthly software updates, John Carmack and his id Software co-founders started quietly borrowing company computers over the weekend to build their own 3D tech. Their side-hustle eventually birthed Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, proving that slacking off at work can sometimes change the world.
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