This sounds like the kind of day which, as I lie in bed at the end of it, leaves me feeling very anxious for having effectively done nothing with it. I'd at least throw in some physical exercise -- that ought to help. Or any kind of creative activity.
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
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
The way you are presenting it, and what caused you to present it, shows it is a pretense. That does not stop it being other things, but it is a pretense.
Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home
#73Why is this flagged? It is not controversial and has 158 upvotes!
Since you've already brought the meta topic up.. I don't think this belongs on HN. I clicked into it thinking it would be something interesting instead it's about spending a day being lazy.
If this doesn't belong here, then all the articles about yet another thing Microsoft or Apple has screwed up also don't belong here.
Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home
#74Besides taking a shower, isn't this basically a day in the life of hobbits as described by Tolkien? I've basically done this for a while when I don't have a job, but it's really, really boring to me. I'm not sure what seems missing about it, but maybe it means something's wrong with me if I can't even relax a day.
Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home
#75Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home
#76Why is this flagged? It is not controversial and has 158 upvotes!
Since you've already brought the meta topic up.. I don't think this belongs on HN. I clicked into it thinking it would be something interesting instead it's about spending a day being lazy.
Do you mean something interesting related to technology? Or just that your expectation is that HN is for "something interesting" inherently, regardless of subject?
If the criticism here is that this blog post does not directly address the subject of technology, it still has value to me as a software engineer. Mouse is an engineer whose work I look up to because it models a way of having a life that is passionate about technology and passionate about other things too.
I love programming language and software design. I love discovering the way things work. I love thinking about how things can work better. I love working towards and achieving technical elegance. And I love following the community conversations about this stuff. In short, I love everything that Hacker News is typically about. That's why I visit the site on a daily basis.
I follow Mouse's work because she connects those kinds of passions, passions in the domain of software engineering, to other areas of passion. Her work gives me hope about what my life can be like. To me this article says, software engineers can take a day off and indulge something they love, and don't have to worry about falling behind as programmers. This isn't what Mouse is saying explicitly. It's what I conclude from or project onto her blog post. But I don't think it's implausible that her writing would have the same meaning to other HN readers.
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#77That 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 :-)
This is exactly how my day is going to be today. Glad I never got married or decided to have children.
Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
thought that's a small, german thing
In the US it's an "I read 2600 Magazine and go to HOPE and I have a point to make" thing. I mean, it tastes good, and it does carry a decent punch in terms of caffeine. But coffee's a lot more convenient, and you spend less time explaining it.
Also cheaper.
Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home
#79That 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 :-)
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Re: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home
#80I like how she sidesteps something that can really ruin a day off: the feeling you should be making the most of it.
Sometimes on a nice sunny day, i feel like i should go out an paddle on the lake or go for a bike ride when i'd really rather just putter about the yard.
That puts me in a mind state where i'm not enjoying myself because i feel i should always be doing something else.