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

There still seems to be so much opportunity left in the internet. I would like to already live in the future where those opportunities are realized.

There must be something like the steam engine of the internet. Like the Romans, we most likely already know the ingredients of the next industrial revolution, but we don't apply them because we have other means to solve our problems.

My best guess is that a social network could be the missing part. The printing press brought cheap paper for scientists to have space for notes which brought mechanization and thus the need for power. Currently, we go directly for automated thoughts, but we don't have significantly more or different thinking space than the generations before us, just faster mail.

Hello and I hope you have a wonderful day as well!

These last few years have been such a strange time for me. I feel very passionate about learning and experiencing new things but at the same time I find myself feeling not too passionate about anything. I typically find something that grabs my interest, holds it for anywhere from a few days to a few months where it sucks me in and I learn everything about it. Then one day I no longer find myself interested in it and I’m on to the next thing. Most recently I’d say photogrammetry, and smoking meat have been the two things that have grabbed my attention though I’ve kind of moved on from the photogrammetry at this point.

I’m currently looking for work but I’ve been trying to force myself to find something I’m passionate about as I’ve jumped from job to job just taking what comes along until I found myself too unhappy to continue doing it. I took a lot of programming in high school before joining the military as a linguist as I never did well in school despite loving to learn. Eventually as time went on I found out I was bipolar and evidently you can’t be in the military if you’re bipolar. Since then I’ve been trying to get a grasp on the whole bipolar thing and just kind of floated along from job to job (mainly in sales as it’s something I’ve always had a background in) and have just kind of found myself existing as life passes me by. I figure that maybe something will stick one of these days and I’ll finally figure it all out. If not, I guess I’ll just keep finding new passions.

What are you passionate about OP?

Edit: I guess I probably should’ve added in gaming as something I’m passionate about as it’s not something I always do but it’s one of the few things (along with reading) that I’ve never lost interest for though I do occasionally wonder if I would’ve been better off had I never discovered it.

I've read it and really loved it. Was thinking about that book just yesterday and mixing up some of the themes with The Aviator (related to time). With Laurus the main thing to me was the sense of a living in a world where people thought and valued differently, and not a kind of made for TV Game of Thrones modern-people-living-in-a-medieval world thing.

Have you read others of the author's work?

It's down now and I didn't take photos. It's an end-fed (64:1 transformer) sloped 20 meter dipole at 65' (19.8 meters.) I built a pair of very good chokes to stop the common mode inherent in these antennas. Had it tuned perfectly using an analyzer and about 10 iterations of trimming.

I have large trees on a good bit of land in the middle of nowhere and I can do as I please. I just can't spend what I please. :) Unfortunately the tops of such trees -- the part I'm trying to hang stuff on -- move a lot in the wind. They are a poor foundation for a permanent antenna.

My plan is a horizontal multiband doublet at 70'+ fed with 600 ohm ladder line and an automatic remote tuner. That will deliver 5 or more bands with decent radiation lobes. About 50' of marine grade bungee will support it. The main thing I learned is that if you're hanging something from the twiggy, weak branches on the tops of trees it must be light. Just small gauge wire and support rope. No ferrites or coax or anything like that.

Sorry for your loss. It sounds like you had a very close relationship with him that must make it really hard.

I lost my dad 7 years ago last month, and it's been the hardest thing in my life. If it's any consolation for you, you will never stop missing him. This Reddit post really helped me during the really hard times https://www.reddit.com/r/GriefSupport/comments/d9685e/grief_...