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Re: I need to stop being boring

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Post by patrickz »

codingdave wrote: post #29
napolux wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2022 and we still have to see WordPress Database Errors.

2022 and we have so many options for free/cheap tiers on so many platforms which provide so many ways for people to share content and express themselves to the world. With just one pain point that a spike in traffic can overwhelm your database limits. Seems like wonderful problem for us all to have.

Yes you are totally right. I just make a 2G SWAP, now the site is back, haha. I thought the site was under attack... @@

Re: I need to stop being boring

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Post by d1sxeyes »

chii wrote: post #21
nonrandomstring wrote: post #16

> So what went wrong? My gut feeling is that I am boring. A lot of pain seems to come from a poor vocabulary about feelings. What is boring? It's a weak and flattened word like the feelings it's used about. Do you mean avolition, acedia, irascibility, dissatisfaction, insensibility, repression, discouragement, ambivalence, anxiety? The Psychology of the Emotions by Neal Burton is a fair place to continue the introspe…

> All progress depends upon the unreasonable man. You need to stop being reasonable and yet there's an unreasonable man invading another country right now. I dont think progress depends on the unreasonable man. It depends on the reasonable man who would put in the sweat and blood, but might be inspired or paid by the unreasonable man.

There's an important difference between:

> All progress depends upon the unreasonable man

and

> All actions by unreasonable men are progress

If all wibbles are wobbles it is not necessarily true that all wobbles are wibbles.

Re: I need to stop being boring

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Post by ramblerman »

chii wrote: post #21
nonrandomstring wrote: post #16

> So what went wrong? My gut feeling is that I am boring. A lot of pain seems to come from a poor vocabulary about feelings. What is boring? It's a weak and flattened word like the feelings it's used about. Do you mean avolition, acedia, irascibility, dissatisfaction, insensibility, repression, discouragement, ambivalence, anxiety? The Psychology of the Emotions by Neal Burton is a fair place to continue the introspe…

> All progress depends upon the unreasonable man. You need to stop being reasonable and yet there's an unreasonable man invading another country right now. I dont think progress depends on the unreasonable man. It depends on the reasonable man who would put in the sweat and blood, but might be inspired or paid by the unreasonable man.

Both things can be true

> progress depends on the unreasonable man

and

> unreasonable men start wars

But honestly it feels like such a useless nitpick. OP is talking about a useful mind-hack to increase your personal productivity and meaning, and you are applying it to how we should assess the morality of global leaders.

Re: I need to stop being boring

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Post by mettamage »

> I lost my creativity and the sense of wonder I used to have in childhood. I am no longer curious because I am settled for the world as it is. I accept things the way they are instead of imagining how they could be.

This resonates.

Re: I need to stop being boring

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Post by lloydatkinson »

napolux wrote: post #26
shaftoe444 wrote: post #6

Archive for others getting a database error: https://web.archive.org/web/20220406064123/https://patzhong....

2022 and we still have to see WordPress Database Errors.

2022 and developers still use Wordpress for what could be a static blog site

Re: I need to stop being boring

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Post by donatj »

> I lost my creativity and the sense of wonder I used to have in childhood. I am no longer curious because I am settled for the world as it is. I accept things the way they are instead of imagining how they could be.

God that strikes close to home.

I have genuinely pondered how 10-15 years ago when I didn’t know what I was doing, I had a million project ideas and just went for them with no real plan. Some of them panned out, most of them didn’t. Many I still maintain today came out of that raw energy. These days when I do (rarely) come up with a project, I know off the bat how I am going to build it. I’ve been blinded to possibility by my own experience.

Re: I need to stop being boring

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Post by WJW »

Juliate wrote: post #10
WaxedChewbacca wrote: post #4

I'm glad the author is introspecting, but I think this is a bit of a misdiagnosis, or maybe an incomplete prescription. First, being boring to others is nothing to worry about -- let them attend to their own likes and dislikes -- it's not your job to thrill anyone. But the author seems to be using boring to describe being limited by fears of various kinds. Well, that's right, it's not good to be bullied and caged by…

Let the brave be brave then. That's 272 pages!

272 pages is not actually a lot for a book.

Re: I need to stop being boring

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Post by sillysaurusx »

donatj wrote: post #36

> I lost my creativity and the sense of wonder I used to have in childhood. I am no longer curious because I am settled for the world as it is. I accept things the way they are instead of imagining how they could be. God that strikes close to home. I have genuinely pondered how 10-15 years ago when I didn’t know what I was doing, I had a million project ideas and just went for them with no real plan. Some of them pan…

Embrace it. One advantage of being old is that my younger self was completely incapable of planning. Then sing along with https://youtu.be/GibiNy4d4gc while watching all the youngsters make the same mistakes.

Re: I need to stop being boring

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Post by moreira »

donatj wrote: post #36

> I lost my creativity and the sense of wonder I used to have in childhood. I am no longer curious because I am settled for the world as it is. I accept things the way they are instead of imagining how they could be. God that strikes close to home. I have genuinely pondered how 10-15 years ago when I didn’t know what I was doing, I had a million project ideas and just went for them with no real plan. Some of them pan…

> I’ve been blinded to possibility by my own experience.

I think about that a lot when it comes to design especially. The ideas that come to me are constrained by own experience and knowledge of what's simple or complicated to implement. I will naturally steer clear from anything that is convoluted to implement.

Meanwhile a proper designer will come up with incredible ideas without worrying about "is it hard to code this up", they're not constrained by that at all.

Re: I need to stop being boring

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Post by rr808 »

I'm afraid most tech people need to get out more. The job is hard, side projects are fun and you need to leetcode in your spare time to get a job. However its very easy to be boring. People benefit from making non-tech friends, play sports, travel, read novels, learn about spirituality, make music, build furniture but I dont see a lot of that happening. I'm a corporate cog and its my biggest regret.
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