Don't Waste the Good Days
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Don't Waste the Good Days
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#2Ah, so this is what privilege and luxury of time looks like. Thanks Seth - I'm sure the 99% will heed your wisdom to go surfing.
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#3Ah, so this is what privilege and luxury of time looks like. Thanks Seth - I'm sure the 99% will heed your wisdom to go surfing.
I read it as more of a "note to self..."
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#4Ah, so this is what privilege and luxury of time looks like. Thanks Seth - I'm sure the 99% will heed your wisdom to go surfing.
He must mean "surfing" hacker news.
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#5>The calendar belongs to everyone else. Their schedule isn’t your schedule unless it helps you get where you’re going.
I guess this works if you are self-employed and or live alone
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#6Ah, so this is what privilege and luxury of time looks like. Thanks Seth - I'm sure the 99% will heed your wisdom to go surfing.
Reframe this critique:
This should be the point of civilization and society. We should be working to free everyone to be able to go surfing when able.
I dislike that some people get to be "privileged" enough to be able to do so as much as the next guy, but I also dislike when people act like it's wrong to aspire to this.
The problem isn't that this is bad advice; the problem is that our civilization currently prevents this for most people, and instead aims to convince the 99% that they are the essential workers who can't go surfing.
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#7Ah, so this is what privilege and luxury of time looks like. Thanks Seth - I'm sure the 99% will heed your wisdom to go surfing.
It's a privilege and luxury to have this kind of flexibility? Yes, and that's a good thing!
If anything, we should aim to betterment for our lives, and I bet nowadays many people browsing this website have this. In the future, even more people will be able to! :)
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#8like a koan.
not the worst way to enter the new year.
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#9Reminds me of one of my favorite poems (which expressed a similar idea far more eloquently imo)
Telephone Booth (number 905 1/2) BY PEDRO PIETRI woke up this morning feeling excellent, picked up the telephone dialed the number of my equal opportunity employer to inform him I will not be into work today Are you feeling sick? the boss asked me No Sir I replied: I am feeling too good to report to work today, if I feel sick tomorrow I will come in early
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#10>The calendar belongs to everyone else. Their schedule isn’t your schedule unless it helps you get where you’re going. I guess this works if you are self-employed and or live alone
Why though ? Specially since covid, I don't see why knowledge workers can't just follow their own schedule, subject to constraints such as "meeting at x" of course.
This is an attitude more than anything I'd say, the "follow the calendar" mentality doesn't have to apply to you unless you choose so.