Take a bike ride around Tokyo to find a not-so-well-known park, set up my hammock and read while drinking a few craft beers.
Ask HN: What's your greatest enjoyment in life?
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#122Those are so very clichéd but that’s how it is.
1. Travelling - just going somewhere, taking a train ride, just being on the move, a trek, or a place even 80-100km from the city or sometimes closer; for 1-2 days, or few months at a stretch. I really feel I’m breathing more, feel like I am “alive” (I don’t know how else to say this), I feel genuinely and effortlessly happy when I’m travelling. I sleep better (!!), I write when I travel.
2. Playing sports - my daily badminton or cricket used to be by daily battery charges which came crashing down at the start of the pandemic. Or running (I count that as sport - I really like running)
3. Literature and world cinema
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#123Cliche, but good family time. Nothing beats a weekend where all my cousins, nieces and nephews are together. Its particularly fun now when all my cousins and siblings have kids and they’re all under four. It gets chaotic but also so much fun
You can go and live in the woods enjoying your solitude, but there is always that part in your heart that needs to be filled with being around loving human beings.
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#124Enjoying the effortless clarity and immersion that comes from not drinking coffee.
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#125Roaming around the city and visiting places with my friends.
Being cared and loved by the person you like.
The feeling of contentment before sleep when I was productive on that day.
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#126Easy one for me. Dancing to reggae music in front of a very good sound system. It's a fantastic sensation. Your entire body vibrating, compelling you to move in harmony with everyone else in the dance. It's the closest to a religious experience I ever get. This video pretty much sums it up: https://youtu.be/AvKTMv4E09Y?t=99 Yes you need ear plugs.
Yep. When the vibes, sound system, tune and drop hit just right...
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’d love to hear more. This sounds good to me. How did you end up in Japan?
> How did you end up in Japan? Quite simple. US became a nightmare towards the end. As an immigrant grad student without much means, I couldn't support myself long. After my advisor cut off funding, I tried finding a job. I didn't have money to pay the bills soon after & US job process was getting long & convoluted with internal referrals, pointless rounds of interviews, HR meetings. I needed money to feed myself - I…
I appreciate your grit. May I DM you for some guidance?
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#128procrastinating.
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#129procastrinating.
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#130Getting a little stoned and either turning on my audio synth stack or getting into unity 3D or bridging the two and fiddling with no goal until I find a groove and flow state and dig into turning different knobs and buttons and making sounds and images fold on themselves for hours until I'm in kind of a fugue state all the while bouncing audio and/or binary builds because even if I save the project well (which I do) I'll likely never be able to get the same output from the machines again because I don't know how I got to where I get to.
This hobby has it's seeds in creative habits I've had for most of my adult life but in the last six years or so I started to realize that it was the thing I enjoyed the most and it was really beneficial to my mental health and well being so I started making the efforts more deliberate and investing in gear and infrastructure to get closer to the dreams that have been in my head forever.
In a few weeks I have some long time collaborators flying in for a week long thing where the fruits of that effort are going to be explored hooking the 3D space to the musical stuff with some depth scanners, projectors, and fancy HD cameras and also two giant FANUC industrial robots controlled by the software stack and synths in tandem.
Follow your dreams kids! You too can make art that likely no one will care about but you and it will be awesome the whole time! It will be expensive and you'll never recoup the money spent... but if people don't look at you like you're a raving psycho when you tell them about your dreams, you probably have some room to have your dreams be more ridiculous. Also, it beats the heck out of remembering that people want me to build them web applications and my chosen profession is mostly a joke.