Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

I have been focused on many things through the years, but my only true passion is making music. My current passion is the 1960s Martin Style 0 I picked up at goodwill for $0.50. I enjoy playing it and am looking forward to setting up my PC after a recent move to record music. I generally cannot play well without others, so I desperately need to lay down a track and play off of that. I play by ear. I could play for years on an instrument by myself and create some beautiful things, but with another person or a track a lay down myself, my fingers play a totally different tune. I played a cello tonight for the first time and it was wonderfully fun. I think one day I may just give everything up to be a musician. It is the only thing I truly love.

The early days of internet for me were mIRC, ICQ, yahoo groups, geocities, MSN Messenger. Thanks for reminding me of that special feeling. I hope you have a great day too.

Thank you for posting this. Really resonates.

I'm passionate about building the best (technology-based) products I can imagine, using all of the tools I've learned in my life so far, to the max, mainly intuition ("gut" over "brain", perhaps) (love making amazing decisions that hold for a really long time!) and imagination. Steve Jobs and Elon are probably the two biggest inspirations, and so are the respective companies they've built.

At the same time I'm also passionate about being kind, being myself as fully as I know, keep growing and enhancing that. I'd love to get the chance to build these things fully into new companies I imagine creating.

I'm also way into "woo-woo" (some might call it, especially on tech-/regular science-focused sites like HN) stuff like channeling. And all kinds of personal expansion-related things that are less "out there" but still quite on the edge, like conscious sexuality as a tool for human growth and blossoming, exploring the meaning and use of emotions, even and especially also in professional & business contexts, etc...

Basically I want to be as fully what I see as a fully human being as I can, and practice and bring that into what I want to accomplish in tech, create environments for others to explore the same, if they wish. Current companies and orgs are boring and outdated in many ways, and I have a desire to build and offer something new, that's much more aligned with who we really are.

I'd also be super eager to connect with folks raising their children in new and better ways. I still believe, as I did before I had kids, that "it takes a village to raise a child". So far I haven't found that village, or (most of) the people who would make up that village. I'd so love to start meeting those! (Kids are No idea who might read this and resonate, but there it is. Thanks again for posting, made me feel a little connected at least :) I usually only read 99.99% of the time on here, but this got me out of my shell for a few minutes at least :) Very much agree, current internet needs a lot more of this particular vibe that we used to have back in the day, e.g. with actual old-fashioned forums inhabited by basically only those folks who really cared about some topic or idea that then realllly connected with each other!

I am having a bad night with drinking, and needed to read this. Commenting live, next to a toilet bowl!!

Thank you, stranger, and I wish you well on your journey.

What's up recently with all these pubescent posts - what's your age/hobby/dick size, etc?

What's the goal of this post? Yeah we know comments on this site have decent quality (if you don't express opinion against HN hive, which is usually aligned with The Current Thing, but they try to be less extreme about promoting it, but anonymously they will kill you with downvotes), but even if you find 2-3 people who share your interests what you gonna do with that information? You can't build some distaste section here and it won't be enough to move elsewhere and if you tried already you would have find forum on your favorite topic.

Yes, on one hand I liked when most of the internet felt like echo chamber of IT guys (basically still preserved on HN), on the other hand I welcome diversity, it's just shame especially in recent years people became extremely polarized, which is not that big of an deal, if one side wasn't heavily promoted by Big Tech which has no problem to keep opinions wishing death to opponents up, while order side was straight up banned under blanket term misinformation.

I have no problem with opponents with completely opposite opinions, what I don't like and see it even here it's despect, calling me or opinion idiotic often without concrete argument, basically just lazy trolling.

edit added: FWIW I miss discussing movies on IMDb, it had huge user base which was dispersed all over internet and r/movies is bad or full of trolls, order subs or sites have way too low user base, while IMDb had people from all fields willing to discuss aspects of movies, now I occasionally check old movies at moviechat or check TMDB discussions, which are pretty dead. Btw I was online already in times of BBS/Fidonet, nice thing about Fido was lack of anonymity so people really couldn't be jerks (obviously it has cons other you can't discuss NDA stuff).