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Have you considered that 9-5 jobs and bills to pay are a choice or at least the result of choices made earlier in your life?
There's no sense in being jealous for the paths other people have chosen.
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> While I respect Kottke…
And than showing utmost disrespect by gaslighting and diminishing their described experience/state of mind.
Do you really think these "I'm not a... but' or" While I... but" comments add positively to the discussion? Why not accept that the author is in the described state, acknowledge what you read and then, without snark, write that you wished you would be able to have a sabbatical from your 9to5 job.
Because than some people might be able to point out that there maybe are ways to achieve this. I know a lot of people that did that with a regular 9to5 job.
Sure depends on the circumstances. But not impossible.
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#14Kottke.org defined a kind of blogging which expresses wonder in the world around us, a format which has been cloned and bent to the shape of SEO a million times since. More Kottkes and fewer content farms in the future please. My newsreader will be a less inspiring place until he returns.
(Although… 24 years is a hella long time without a break. Sabbaticals traditionally come after 7 years. So no pressure to come back anytime soon Jason.)
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Because mental health issues, burnout, and a general want to do something different at some point in life can ONLY be experienced if you have a 9-5 job and bills to pay.
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#16Dare I say no one has done more for the blog form than Mr. Kottke. His humble, almost monkish 24-year commitment to not only the pursuit of knowledge and meaning in the world, but his absolute insistence on sharing that pursuit with anyone who wants to ride along in that journey is one of the all-time greatest contributions to the web.
Godspeed, Jason. Be well and see you on the flip (in whatever way you deem fit).
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Have you considered that 9-5 jobs and bills to pay are a choice or at least the result of choices made earlier in your life? There's no sense in being jealous for the paths other people have chosen.
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And what would be wrong with that?
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#18Kottke was very formative to my first big "deep dive" into the web and truly being blown away by the community / what would you could create. He was one of the original patreons.
Side note: what happened to his social bookmarking site he was working on?
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It’s not either - or. I am glad Jason can take half a year off. And I wish people with a 9 to 5 like you or me could too.
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And what would be wrong with that?
That’s asinine. The fact that someone thinks you could just not have a 9-5 job or bills to pay? Sure, I’ll just pull myself up by my bootstraps and suddenly not worry about a job or bills. Thanks, I’ll just let them eat cake instead!