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I’m going to miss you, but I am taking a sabbatical
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#32Currently on my 4th month of a Sabbatical and not looking back. It's great to explore and find joy in the world offline again. I also no longer feel the need to be validated by the work that I do but really by how I feel and I feel good.
Could you expand on that?
Something about “not feeling the need to be validated by work” sounds appealing and is bubbling in my mind recently, but I’m not sure how that looks day to day.
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#33Maybe, like his tree, his pot is way to small and he is root-bound.
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#34Jason posts a handful of cool links each week and occasionally writes a few paragraphs about them. He also sometimes produces a podcast. As far as I can tell, this is the full extent of his job.
It’s really hard to imagine getting “burnt out” from this. It sounds exactly how many people actively enjoy spending their free time: surf the internet for fun and take a few minutes sharing a couple cool links with your friends.
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#35Dare 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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#36Jason posts a handful of cool links each week and occasionally writes a few paragraphs about them. He also sometimes produces a podcast. As far as I can tell, this is the full extent of his job. It’s really hard to imagine getting “burnt out” from this. It sounds exactly how many people actively enjoy spending their free time: surf the internet for fun and take a few minutes sharing a couple cool links with your frie…
maybe people just need to take a break from the internet? especially people who have been a part of the internet for almost the whole time of the commercial web.
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#37Last year I started cycling off of social media. I normally do 30 days on and then 60 days off. Rinse and repeat. Its definitely has re-shaped a lot of how I view my life and what's truly important and what's just white noise bogging my brain down.
I'm not surprised by his move to unplug for an extended period of time. A lot of older people I work with (40-50's) are unplugging their social media, and starting to limit a lot of their screen time and their kids screen time.
I feel like a pendulum is starting to swing away from being accessible 24/7 and always feeling like you need to be constantly plugged into everything.
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#38Jason posts a handful of cool links each week and occasionally writes a few paragraphs about them. He also sometimes produces a podcast. As far as I can tell, this is the full extent of his job. It’s really hard to imagine getting “burnt out” from this. It sounds exactly how many people actively enjoy spending their free time: surf the internet for fun and take a few minutes sharing a couple cool links with your frie…
You can get burned out from anything, though. I like pizza, and look forward to the next pizza I get to eat. But if you made me eat pizza every day for 24 years, I'd want to take a long break from eating pizza.
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#39Jason posts a handful of cool links each week and occasionally writes a few paragraphs about them. He also sometimes produces a podcast. As far as I can tell, this is the full extent of his job. It’s really hard to imagine getting “burnt out” from this. It sounds exactly how many people actively enjoy spending their free time: surf the internet for fun and take a few minutes sharing a couple cool links with your frie…
I'm not saying curation is the world's hardest job but stakes are a bit different when you've become popular enough to make a living off of it. It's like being a Youtuber -- folks donate to you because you add value to their lives via your content. Even if generating links and paragraphs seems low-effort to you, to do it well every day for 24 years you can't shut off your consumption of media and you need to stay in a certain mindset. You are always a bit concerned about whether you are delivering value too. Every job takes a psychological toll and one that involves being "on" for 24 years certainly warrants taking a break.
It's also clear that Jason has other things going on in life and wanting to clear your plate and reset is very human and understandable.
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#40Dare 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).
I can’t believe it’s been 24 years. I remember exploring 0sil8 way back when and being inspired by the cool things you could do with html. How time flies.