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Ask HN: What's You Life's Work?

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Re: Ask HN: What's You Life's Work?

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While I’m unsure I’ll be using Swift for the rest of my life, I’ll continue to work on my little tool to detect unused code for as long as I can. It’s my most popular open-source contribution, and it brings me joy knowing others find it useful. https://github.com/peripheryapp/periphery

Thanks for your work on this I had no idea it existed, definitely going to try it out.

Re: Ask HN: What's You Life's Work?

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happiness, i want to master happiness, i want to enjoy my life, be the happiest i can be, for as many prolonged lenghts i can have, recently i was happy for whole month while doing my skydiving course, i plan on doing more of that, once i get bored of it i will find something else but yeah

personal happiness

Re: Ask HN: What's You Life's Work?

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I suspect https://buttplug.io is gonna keep me busy. I’ve already been working in the intimate haptics field for ~18 years and it’s remained interesting the whole time, so no plans on stopping.

Don't you get numb at some point?

Sorry, this subject is too funny. :-)

Re: Ask HN: What's You Life's Work?

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My life's work is surviving. Everything I do and have done has been to keep myself alive to some degree or another. Everything else is just a bunch of distractions and abstractions that boil down to same thing at the end of the day.

Re: Ask HN: What's You Life's Work?

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My life's work is surviving. Everything I do and have done has been to keep myself alive to some degree or another. Everything else is just a bunch of distractions and abstractions that boil down to same thing at the end of the day.

Love this answer. Sometimes I feel like "merely" surviving is looked down upon, but the art of survival is the only lasting thing we can hand down the generations. The environment changes so rapidly (especially in the Anthropocene) that usually the best we can do is figure out how to survive right now. Anything else is superfluous if we can't do that.
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