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Free will doesn't exist anyways. Your brain is deterministic like a biological calculator.
I'm not so sure... http://thebaffler.com/past/whats_the_point_if_we_cant_have_f...
If your working time is spent doing something you don't really enjoy that sucks, obviously. It'd be great if we could all spend our lives doing creative, enjoyable things. Realistically though, if your work facilitates a happy life outside of your job then it could still be well be worth it - my parents have led full, happy lives (or so they tell me) raising their kids, doing their hobbies, seeing their friends, and…
>The expectation that you can carve out a lifestyle where everything is worthwhile is unrealistic, and while a few outliers might actually achieve it, most people aren't going manage to get anything like that. I've managed it, but it's taken a lot of hard work. I finally have enough money from side projects and clients to quit my job and go full time. I have a few friends who are also looking for work and to quit the…
Definitely. Its much more difficult when you're 30, have a mortgage, a wife, possibly kids, etc.
You can only do one thing at a time. 1000 other things are being neglected. So this means your time is wasted anyways.
That hardly follows..
If your working time is spent doing something you don't really enjoy that sucks, obviously. It'd be great if we could all spend our lives doing creative, enjoyable things. Realistically though, if your work facilitates a happy life outside of your job then it could still be well be worth it - my parents have led full, happy lives (or so they tell me) raising their kids, doing their hobbies, seeing their friends, and…
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Because some people are of the opinion that there is entirely too much of this fluff on HN, myself included.
Some day I'm going to go into a pub, strike up a conversation with a stranger, and when they inevitably ask me what I do, I'll say, "Why, thank you for asking! I write about optimising our lives for happiness, integrity, and success." And then I'll hope that they murder me.
I saved 15 minutes by not reading this blog post :)
Why do you come into threads and make comments like this? Genuinely curious. Do you have something against the author or..?
It's a fluff piece, it's reiterating cliched refrains, it provides no analysis, and honestly the writing isn't compelling enough on its own to be here.
Failing that, can we at least hold ourselves to a higher standard of fluff?
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Some day I'm going to go into a pub, strike up a conversation with a stranger, and when they inevitably ask me what I do, I'll say, "Why, thank you for asking! I write about optimising our lives for happiness, integrity, and success." And then I'll hope that they murder me.
Is there anything wrong in principle with writing about optimising our lives for happiness, integrity, and success?
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Some day I'm going to go into a pub, strike up a conversation with a stranger, and when they inevitably ask me what I do, I'll say, "Why, thank you for asking! I write about optimising our lives for happiness, integrity, and success." And then I'll hope that they murder me.
Is there anything wrong in principle with writing about optimising our lives for happiness, integrity, and success?
I mean, truly, who here (or on the planet) hasn't thought it would be ideal to earn a living by pursuing a passion?
And, how many forms of this exact article have we seen?