I love this idea. I don’t actually want to be famous. Michael Jackson used to pay a supermarket to shut down so he could play at being a normal person. You and I can just go to the supermarket and be a normal person.
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#242Along the lines of this it reminds me of the people who obsessively baby things like phones so they can "preserve the resale value".
Screw that. If someone wants a pristine phone they can buy a new one like I did. It's bonkers.
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#243There are people out there so utterly brain-broken (myself included) who seek to monetize every little personal hobby. “Maybe I should start journaling” turns into “How can I be a thought leader on bleeping journaling?” And it ruins everything. I’ve done this multiple times and regret it. I’ve only recently adopted the mindset that this author is attempting to convey, which is simple: identify what you enjoy and why,…
What's wrong with monetizing every little thing? Our time is limited and capitalism is expensive.
Just make sure you enjoy the process.
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#244I appreciate the author's perspective, but my approach in life has been based largely on two biblical verses that I memorized in childhood. Those are 1) "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters" (Colossians 3:23) and 2) "Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before officials of low rank" (Proverbs 22:29). The…
I like the overall message of the two passages, promoting hard work and valuing skill. But I dont like that both passages emphasize working for someone else. I agree with OP's sentiment of working for yourself, even if that means producing no income at all and learning your skills in a self-motivated manner as a hobby.
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#245There are people out there so utterly brain-broken (myself included) who seek to monetize every little personal hobby. “Maybe I should start journaling” turns into “How can I be a thought leader on bleeping journaling?” And it ruins everything. I’ve done this multiple times and regret it. I’ve only recently adopted the mindset that this author is attempting to convey, which is simple: identify what you enjoy and why,…
What's wrong with monetizing every little thing? Our time is limited and capitalism is expensive. Just make sure you enjoy the process.
Nothing if you feel it to be fulfilling but for a lot of people it raises the bar on what could be a fun hobby to something else and often includes a bunch of elements you'd normally not care about.
As a gamedev my brain is continually broken trying to make games in my own time because I'm so used to treating games as a product. There's a wide gulf between doing that as a hobby and doing it as a job. Particularly in motivation around the end result.
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#246>>> "The most egregious thing you can do with any activity is daydream about how you can make money off of it. That’s the quickest way to optimize for the wrong things and suck the fun right out of it. Most likely you will stop doing the activity almost immediately, so save the money-making schemes for work."
This is an important point. The quickest way to make something unfun, is to get paid for it! That's because the second you get paid for something is the second you start doing it for someone else, creating value for someone else. you get paid to create value for others, not yourself. Play is creating value for yourself, not others that's why you don't get paid to play.
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#247It's funny, I catch myself doing this with mechanical keyboard tinkering. I really enjoy it but perhaps trying to find that missing right shift so I can take a sick DSLR picture that I anticipate would get upvotes is futile at the end of the day.
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#248There are people out there so utterly brain-broken (myself included) who seek to monetize every little personal hobby. “Maybe I should start journaling” turns into “How can I be a thought leader on bleeping journaling?” And it ruins everything. I’ve done this multiple times and regret it. I’ve only recently adopted the mindset that this author is attempting to convey, which is simple: identify what you enjoy and why,…
What's wrong with monetizing every little thing? Our time is limited and capitalism is expensive. Just make sure you enjoy the process.
Often the activities to monetize something have little overlap with the activity itself or they change the way you do something so it’s no longer enjoyable.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would place somewhere between the 1970s and 1980s. Prior to Reaganomics I remember it being pretty easy to get by on very little money. The go go eighties really changed materialism from my perspective.
Reaganomics are more likely to have been a consequence (of US' peak oil) than a cause of prosperity starting to dive back to the normal.
I don't quite understand what you are saying.
The 1980's so the deregulation and the invention of financial products that changed wealth exponentially.
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#250There are people out there so utterly brain-broken (myself included) who seek to monetize every little personal hobby. “Maybe I should start journaling” turns into “How can I be a thought leader on bleeping journaling?” And it ruins everything. I’ve done this multiple times and regret it. I’ve only recently adopted the mindset that this author is attempting to convey, which is simple: identify what you enjoy and why,…
What's wrong with monetizing every little thing? Our time is limited and capitalism is expensive. Just make sure you enjoy the process.
There's nothing wrong with it, it was merely being pointed out that it's not an obligation or moral requirement.