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Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

#31

Breathing is something you can either do or not do, yet it's also something that happens automatically, such as during sleep or when you're not paying attention to it. When done perfectly correctly, consciously breathing nets the same benefits to the body as unconscious or automatic breathing. You don't really have to spend any mental energy on it to get the oxygen you need (your body will even yawn for you if it nee…

I have had a similar insight. People often wonder what advice they would give their younger self. This would be it for me. It something seems too difficult, it is likely because you are still struggling with a pre-requisite. Go back to working on the previous foundation until your mastery is complete. This is true for work, mental & fitness progress. I.e. if you find losing weight hard, you probably need to improve y…

> ...exceptionally healthy diet you like too much to require any discipline to stay on.

There's no such thing. Eating only 50 avocados a day (so called "superfood") won't get you healthy or make you lose weight.

Too much of anything is not healthy.

A "healthy diet" is matched up with your body, short- and long-term needs, activities, mental state, etc.

I do agree with the suggested approach for achieving anything significant, just nitpicking on some of the language in your dieting example.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Looking at the source code, I have never seen so many files for such a simple HTML page.

I was also quite surprised, and I took a bit of challenge to make it a single file that faithfully reproduces the exact behavior and embeds all dependencies including the web font, besides from Inter which is only used for toasts and barely distinguishable from Arial in this context. It weighs 3,123 bytes without the specifically subsetted font which takes additional 10,433 bytes. https://gist.github.com/lifthrasiir/…

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That’s a lot of text for nothing.

Seriously. Some feedback to author: the page is awesome up to "You've been idle for X seconds." Delete every word after that.

But then you couldn't scroll and the punchline of even scrolling resetting your timer would be lost.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

#38

That reminds me of a specific (de)motivational video of one of my favorite comedians Masood Boomgaard, which specifically covers the rat race that prevails in todays workplace culture. While it's meant to be funny, it actually touches some deeper philosophical truths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8An2SxNFvmU [Do Nothing - a message of motivation from Self-help Singh- (un) motivational speaker and life coach]

I relate so much to his recent video on Friday meetings.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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I don't get it. What is the difference between this website and the rest of the internet?

You're actively do nothing instead of passively doing nothing.

Witty, I like it. It also highlights the subtle irony of turning "doing nothing" into yet another thing you need to optimize.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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For more brain explosion, compound that with a "memento mori" timer that converts the time spend in "nothingness" into "how much closer you are to eternal nothingness."

No wonder people watch TV, fight wars, or build startups to forget that.

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