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Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?

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Post by vinhnx » Mon, Mar 29, 2021, 3:51 AM UTC

rococode wrote: post #40

Video walks on Youtube. If you haven't heard of them before, they're simple first-person videos where the filmer walks around some area with a stabilized video camera - no talking, just walking. I've really missed traveling and watching video walks while exercising has been a great way to satisfy that travel craving a bit and also trick my brain into experiencing some semblance of normalcy (not sure I could remember…

This, hundred times this!

I always feel like watching walking tour videos is my kind of meditation, feel-good video or AMSR kind of activity.

on a lazy day, a lazy weekend afternoon evening that you just want to chill out, I think nothing is more comfort than watching walking tour videos. you can just lay down, sit back, have a snack and travel with your eyes, you can "visit" places you had never been before. Wouldn't that feel great?

I curated a link of my personal favorite walking tour YouTube channel, especially in Japan: https://github.com/vinhnx/life-notes/issues/15

Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?

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Post by maximumpeaches » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 4:30 PM UTC

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #210

rococode wrote: post #40

Video walks on Youtube. If you haven't heard of them before, they're simple first-person videos where the filmer walks around some area with a stabilized video camera - no talking, just walking. I've really missed traveling and watching video walks while exercising has been a great way to satisfy that travel craving a bit and also trick my brain into experiencing some semblance of normalcy (not sure I could remember…

why not go out for a walk yourself? as somebody who spends a lot of time in nature it's hard to grasp how sitting more in front of a screen can improve the mood. or perhaps I got it wrong and OP isn't working in Tech and screen time actually means being not at work? not judging what makes you happy (that would be stupid on many levels) but genuinely wondering if you don't need the endorphines and flowing juices of at…

I just watch them in the background while doing something else which I can't do while walking.

Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?

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Post by slallum » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 1:20 AM UTC

OrbitRock wrote: post #392

sprkv5 wrote: post #381

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This. This is exactly what I started watching last summer to keep myself calm and optimistic through the pandemic. The channels I watch are - Nomadic Ambience[1], NIPPON WANDERING TV[2] and IURETA e[3]. Here are my favorite[4] video[5] walks[6] from Japan. Hope you like it. As for other places, here's two from NYC[7][8] and another from Olympic National Park[9] which is not a video walk per se, but would appeal to fo…

I’m wondering what camera would be best for this kind of thing? I’d love to make some.

If you like the videos of Nippon Wandering, he states which equipment he uses for each video. In his last one he used DJI Osmo Pocket.

Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?

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Post by jcpst » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 6:55 PM UTC

reducesuffering wrote: post #525

jcpst wrote: post #198

WFH. I take my dog on a walk during standup. I hang out with my kids when I can step out of the office. I recently started exercising over lunch (this habit was never easy for me- it took getting Ring Fit Adventure on Nintendo Switch to start that). I saved 15000 miles on my car’s odometer. —— Reconnecting with old friends from HS/college. We normally do a march camping trip every year. Not in 2020. Instead, We set u…

How do you do a standup while walking? I can understand audio through earphones, but don't you need to see like a JIRA board and are you able to do that on your phone?

The board gets screen shared. So I could do look on my phone if I wanted. But I don’t find it necessary.

I have the inverse question. How would you not be able to do standup while walking (given that you’re able-bodied)? Are you not prepared to say what you did yesterday and what you plan to do today? Or do you do a bunch of other tasks in your standup? Does the whole meeting take more than 10-15 minutes?

I take a look at the board in the morning and make sure it’s up to date, so I can speak to where all my items are at. Since I’m the dev lead on the team, I’m also aware of who’s working on which projects, so I can provide feedback/answer questions on their stuff, if it makes sense in the context of the meeting.

Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?

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Post by A_Venom_Roll » Tue, Apr 06, 2021, 9:54 PM UTC

cmdalbem wrote: post #538

rococode wrote: post #40

Video walks on Youtube. If you haven't heard of them before, they're simple first-person videos where the filmer walks around some area with a stabilized video camera - no talking, just walking. I've really missed traveling and watching video walks while exercising has been a great way to satisfy that travel craving a bit and also trick my brain into experiencing some semblance of normalcy (not sure I could remember…

That's amazing to hear so many people are getting so much happiness from this kind of videos! It was this same feeling that inspired me in the beginning of the pandemic to create a website with all the best videos I found out there, and I invite you all to take a look: https://escapista.app It's like a live TV that streams this kind of videos 24h/day. Just tune in, choose what category you prefer and enjoy :) (discla…

This is nice, but I like streaming these kind of video's to my TV. Do you use YouTube playlists 'under the hood'?