“The primary source of data was interviews conducted with 15 people…”
You find that to be a boring number of interviewees?
Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology (2022)
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Re: Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology (2022)
#12This article really resonated with me both in regard to the mundane and profound boredom aspects. For the mundane, obsessively refreshing hacker news is my doom scrolling (with the justification that I occasionally find content like this). While the profound boredom experienced during the start of Covid made me realise I wasn’t living up to what I thought were my values. I then started volunteering with the local eme…
> obsessively refreshing hacker news is my doom scrolling Yeah. I really need to add this site to my hosts file or something. I learn a lot here but I want to do other stuff too... > I then started volunteering with the local emergency service which has been one of the best life decisions I’ve made. Thank you for your work. I'm sure it's made a huge difference in a lot of people's lives.
See the noprocrast setting in your HN user account.
Re: Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology (2022)
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
> obsessively refreshing hacker news is my doom scrolling Yeah. I really need to add this site to my hosts file or something. I learn a lot here but I want to do other stuff too... > I then started volunteering with the local emergency service which has been one of the best life decisions I’ve made. Thank you for your work. I'm sure it's made a huge difference in a lot of people's lives.
See the noprocrast setting in your HN user account.
Huh. Can't believe I never noticed this. I'm gonna enable it. Thanks.
Re: Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology (2022)
#14“The primary source of data was interviews conducted with 15 people…”
I think there’s value in talking extensively to 15 people and writing a paper reflecting on their different human experiences. The paper even handily posits a hypothesis on the role of boredom in everyone’s life.
I too think there can be more value in an in-depth study of a relatively small number of people over another study on the same subject that asks a few thousand people to respond to just a few superficial questions.
Re: Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology (2022)
#15This article really resonated with me both in regard to the mundane and profound boredom aspects. For the mundane, obsessively refreshing hacker news is my doom scrolling (with the justification that I occasionally find content like this). While the profound boredom experienced during the start of Covid made me realise I wasn’t living up to what I thought were my values. I then started volunteering with the local eme…
This echoes my own experiences. Where did you look for volunteering opportunities?
My state government maintains a online volunteering opportunities register that was really useful. Local library also had a selection of organisations looking for volunteers. I initially over committed by signing up for too many things before cutting back and focusing on doing the emergency work wholeheartedly.
Re: Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology (2022)
#16This article really resonated with me both in regard to the mundane and profound boredom aspects. For the mundane, obsessively refreshing hacker news is my doom scrolling (with the justification that I occasionally find content like this). While the profound boredom experienced during the start of Covid made me realise I wasn’t living up to what I thought were my values. I then started volunteering with the local eme…
I’d say that if you’re constantly refreshing Hacker News, you’re a good candidate for ebooks on HN-like subjects. I made a conscious decision to switch to that from HN and Reddit, and I’d say I’ve cut my usage of both by about 75%. Which was a good outcome for me, because it switched me from learning many topics shallowly, to learning a few from ebooks deeply (example, Soni’s The Founders book on PayPal’s history).
How do you find good ebooks? I’ve found some good ones via HN, but it would be nice if there is more dedicated place for ebooks.
Re: Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology (2022)
#17I wanted to stop doom scrolling hacker news but the article was too long to read ;)
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#18“The primary source of data was interviews conducted with 15 people…”
If you can read a blog post by 1 person on this subject seriously, you can read a summary of an interview of 15 people. I downloaded the epub. This line sold me to read it. >In this article, we coin the term ‘mundane emotions’ to draw attention to everyday routines and the distinctive emotions that flow from them (De Certeau 1988; Lefebvre 2004). For example, commuting, cleaning or cooking routines, for some, may pro…
Using public laundry... It's a very long time ago but I remember that atmosphere, sometimes I talked to other people there or read magazines they had lying around or took my own book to read!!
Re: Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology (2022)
#19I think it would be great to have an ebook interface that shuffled the content in a way that mimicked some aspects of HN, Reddit, and maybe even Tinder.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’d say that if you’re constantly refreshing Hacker News, you’re a good candidate for ebooks on HN-like subjects. I made a conscious decision to switch to that from HN and Reddit, and I’d say I’ve cut my usage of both by about 75%. Which was a good outcome for me, because it switched me from learning many topics shallowly, to learning a few from ebooks deeply (example, Soni’s The Founders book on PayPal’s history).
How do you find good ebooks? I’ve found some good ones via HN, but it would be nice if there is more dedicated place for ebooks.
I strongly recommend building a little instinct in yourself for "what if HN search could help with this question" - for books especially: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21900498
And someone took it upon themselves to build a book specific version across all discussions: https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news
I check that fairly frequently!