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A suggestion on how to spend a day at home

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Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home

#21
That sounds pretty terrible, and kind of pretentious & high maintenance. Howabout this, for the hackers among us:

- Roll out of bed

- Crawl to your computer station

- Work on hobby projects in your underwear

- Notice the sun rise again, and that you've been on Wikipedia since yesterday

- Grab leftovers from the fridge and eat while watching YouTube

- Crawl back to bed after waking up in your chair

:-)

Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home

#22

That sounds pretty terrible, and kind of pretentious & high maintenance. Howabout this, for the hackers among us: - Roll out of bed - Crawl to your computer station - Work on hobby projects in your underwear - Notice the sun rise again, and that you've been on Wikipedia since yesterday - Grab leftovers from the fridge and eat while watching YouTube - Crawl back to bed after waking up in your chair :-)

Knock over half empty soda can, partially clean up the spill with some pizza greased napkins.

Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home

#23

That's a lot of carbohydrates. We could probably all have a better day by eating less of them.

Maybe the exact foods you eat at the breakfast are not super important to gain the benefit of this plan.

Yeah. What I got from this is to completely stray from the norm. Spend your whole day doing the thing we usually struggle to find 5 minutes for.

Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home

#25

That sounds pretty terrible, and kind of pretentious & high maintenance. Howabout this, for the hackers among us: - Roll out of bed - Crawl to your computer station - Work on hobby projects in your underwear - Notice the sun rise again, and that you've been on Wikipedia since yesterday - Grab leftovers from the fridge and eat while watching YouTube - Crawl back to bed after waking up in your chair :-)

Knock over half empty soda can, partially clean up the spill with some pizza greased napkins.

Preferably Jolt Cola, the official beverage of the elite hacker.

Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the exact foods you eat at the breakfast are not super important to gain the benefit of this plan.

Yeah. What I got from this is to completely stray from the norm. Spend your whole day doing the thing we usually struggle to find 5 minutes for.

When you phrase it like that, it seems that there might be something meditative in elevating something mundane to be the main point of the day.

To misquote Bruce Lee: "I do not fear the man who has 20 breakfasts, I fear the man who has one breakfast 20 times."

Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home

#27

That sounds pretty terrible, and kind of pretentious & high maintenance. Howabout this, for the hackers among us: - Roll out of bed - Crawl to your computer station - Work on hobby projects in your underwear - Notice the sun rise again, and that you've been on Wikipedia since yesterday - Grab leftovers from the fridge and eat while watching YouTube - Crawl back to bed after waking up in your chair :-)

Your aesthetic is a kind of pretense, too.

Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home

#28

That sounds pretty terrible, and kind of pretentious & high maintenance. Howabout this, for the hackers among us: - Roll out of bed - Crawl to your computer station - Work on hobby projects in your underwear - Notice the sun rise again, and that you've been on Wikipedia since yesterday - Grab leftovers from the fridge and eat while watching YouTube - Crawl back to bed after waking up in your chair :-)

My thoughts exactly. Where's the IRC? Where's the trap music? Where's the high-proof liquor?

How else do you expect to get anything done? :-P

(Cute write up though. In Norway, they call this "koselig". Honey-moon with a sig-other kind of day, maybe, but some of us like to live more.. intensely.)

Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home

#29
post #27

That sounds pretty terrible, and kind of pretentious & high maintenance. Howabout this, for the hackers among us: - Roll out of bed - Crawl to your computer station - Work on hobby projects in your underwear - Notice the sun rise again, and that you've been on Wikipedia since yesterday - Grab leftovers from the fridge and eat while watching YouTube - Crawl back to bed after waking up in your chair :-)

Your aesthetic is a kind of pretense, too.

The "aesthetic" involved is purely a side effect of focus, on personal creativeness and learning. There's no aesthetic goal being pursued, as in the case of using fine dishes and caring about dress.

Many of us long to take a break from obligations and sink into a deep state of singular flow on our creative hobbies, whether it be software, building a ship in a bottle, working on that car rusting in the garage, etc. To be able to take a full day, ignore everything else, and spend it on exactly one passion project is a personal, internal joy; not one predicated on pretensing up to match externally presented standards.

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