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Some hobbies are much harder to do than others. For those, the doing will be a lot less than the discussing. Examples, scuba but don't live close to water, flying, but can't afford to do it frequently, etc.
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i just decided that i enjoy working on bikes more than i do riding them and i decided that was fine. What i dislike the most is talking to people on reddit about it. if i need a new part that i dont know where to find google will lead me to the forum that will lead me t owhat i need. if i can't find it i can ask on reddit. but i do not want to sit around on forums talking about bikes. what a waste of time. and look a…
Personally, I like both. I like riding a lot but I also take a lot of enjoyment from cleaning and tuning my bikes. It's meditative!
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can “overhaul” it, or you can ride it. On the whole, I am not sure that a man who takes his pleasure overhauling does not have the best of the bargain. He is independent of the weather and the wind; the state of the roads troubles him not. Give him a screw-hammer, a bundle of rags, an oil-can, and something to sit down upon, and he is happy for the day. He…
This is exactly why I switched my sport of choice from cycling to running. In cycling, I kept getting pulled into the gear and tinkering. (It didn't help that I raced cyclocross, so during race season, every Monday was spent cleaning and repairing the result of the previous day's races). TBH, it was fun, but if I spent as much time training as I did tinkering, maybe I would have had some decent race results. With run…
Personally, I'm squarely in the "doing it" quadrant for things that involve actual physical activity (woodworking, fruit growing, gardening). I have tried innumerable times to become interested in forums on these topics, and online or in-person, talking about them is of only minor interest to me. And while, I fantasize a bit about the kit involved, I am far more likely to make-do with used equipment, or build my own, than go all-in on kit.
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> With running, it's harder to believe that the gear is what's holding me back from performance. Running reminds me of strength training. No one thinks a new barbell is going to add 10% to their one-rep max.
What is hilarious in road cycling is all the middle aged men who really do believe that kit = faster. If you have any basic bike of a reasonable standard, it is ALL about hours, weight and power. Nothing else. On a one hr climb up a 10% mountain, nothing is gonna save your fat ass.
I think another boat to consider are those who consume more than they produce. 'Doing' and 'discussing' are both 'producing' activities but much more demanding than absorbing content.
i love the framing introduction to this post that is something relatively quotidian but then loops back to something dev career related. > If each person has a finite amount of time to spend either learning or sharing, we'd expect to find a negative correlation between output and experience. This, in turn, lowers the overall quality of content on any given subject my counter would be that this is a U shaped curve, no…
This is part of why some people with 10 years of experience actually only have 1 year of experience, repeated 10 times.
The converse is also true of course, if all one does is theorize without practicing, then not only is the theory not being worked into a skill, but at some point the theorizing will be based only on prior theorizing instead of experience, which invariably results in incorrect theories.
The optimal loop seems to be:
1. Pick a desired skill to improve at
2. Analyze the way you're doing it right now and figure out a better way. This is the trickiest step, if unable to self-analyze look for guidance in others.
3. Consciously practice, one skill at a time
This applies to every skill in existence, not just games.
I feel like this is me spinning in circles deciding on “the best language” to use for a side project, never committing, and then inevitably losing momentum. Frameworks and languages are a software engineer’s “kit”, I guess?
The best language for a side project is either a) the language you want to learn, the side project is a means towards this end or b) the language you know best, you want the side project to actually be good
For me that’s Python (b) and any shiny object (a), respectively.
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This is exactly why I switched my sport of choice from cycling to running. In cycling, I kept getting pulled into the gear and tinkering. (It didn't help that I raced cyclocross, so during race season, every Monday was spent cleaning and repairing the result of the previous day's races). TBH, it was fun, but if I spent as much time training as I did tinkering, maybe I would have had some decent race results. With run…
But rock climbing doesn't have the gear heads of other hobbies - at least, I've never encountered these. There are definitely people that enjoy the technical aspects of how to best secure yourself with your gear, what knots to use and so on, but otherwise I haven't had many of these discussions. On that aspect, rock climbing and especially bouldering are very similar to running. Don't get me started on trail running,…
For efficiency, I took up machining, where "Doing" and "Gear" have had a cosmic "merge cells" command applied to them. The only reason to own machining equipment is to USE it... to create tools and fixtures to improve your machining equipment.
Yes, so many people who write for magazines seem to use their tools to make more tools. I wish I had some of that in me. I resent every second working on my machines as opposed to using them to make stuff. Which would be why none of them work very well :-\ I wish I was rich enough to pay someone to 'just come and set them all up properly and check on them every couple of months!' My actual hobby is model engineering…