Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become
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#2I hate philosophies like this. It acts like humans are machines that need to be doing things.
I like to relax and binge netflix occasionally to decompress but that doesn't mean I'm voting for myself to become a lazy bum.
I also like to play music but I don't want to become a working musician.
Life is more than ACTIONS there's also experiences and things you enjoy that have nothing to do with future planning.
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#3Unchained of any social responsibility, void of compulsory passions, maybe. I'm not going to run anyone down for the way they organize their life and I do take on conscious actions to form habits. However, these kinds of aphorisms do give me the willies a bit.
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#4I hate philosophies like this. It acts like humans are machines that need to be doing things. I like to relax and binge netflix occasionally to decompress but that doesn't mean I'm voting for myself to become a lazy bum. I also like to play music but I don't want to become a working musician. Life is more than ACTIONS there's also experiences and things you enjoy that have nothing to do with future planning.
I think you're interpreting the advice overly agressively. You can take it as chill advice in chill situations.
It's okay to want to be the kind of person who enjoys a show and watches it enthusiastically. It's great to be the kind of person who relaxes and takes care of themselves. It's wonderful to want to be musical without pushing yourself to do so commercially.
Take actions to be the kind of person who enjoys being you.
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#5I hate philosophies like this. It acts like humans are machines that need to be doing things. I like to relax and binge netflix occasionally to decompress but that doesn't mean I'm voting for myself to become a lazy bum. I also like to play music but I don't want to become a working musician. Life is more than ACTIONS there's also experiences and things you enjoy that have nothing to do with future planning.
These blog posts are such low effort too it makes me cringe.
1) Read $popular_book
2) Have it tell you what to do
3) Blog about chapter, quote, section of said $popular_book
4) Keep you in the loop for SV/VC/Hacker/Founder-sphere because if you don't have a presence your startup doesnt matter.
I'm overly generalizing a bit, and I think the blogger probably had good intentions (i.e. me overreacting) but I feel like these types of posts are more virtue signaling and a waste of time vs smart people wanting an online book club.
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#6Thanks for the reminder.. I vote to stop reading bland, boring tech blogs for today.
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#7I hate philosophies like this. It acts like humans are machines that need to be doing things. I like to relax and binge netflix occasionally to decompress but that doesn't mean I'm voting for myself to become a lazy bum. I also like to play music but I don't want to become a working musician. Life is more than ACTIONS there's also experiences and things you enjoy that have nothing to do with future planning.
I don't see these as mutually exclusive philosophies. You can choose to make an action out of relaxing by voting to not be a strung-out stressed person that is pressured to do things all the time. That person isn't fun at parties. You can vote to de-stress for a few hours or a whole day on occasion.
I personally find this philosophy useful and follow it myself. I intentionally choose what I spend my time on. I make a list of priorities, then I allocate time to those priorities on a spreadsheet. If I run out of time, I drop priorities and make more time. I factor in social time where I can choose to go out or stay in, depending on how I am feeling that day.
What I don't appreciate it the philosophy that most people seem to embrace which is "externalize everything but my job and what feels good". I feel like it's important to hone a variety of skills, and sometimes doing that isn't exactly fun. I think it's more justifiable to delegate once you know how to do a job well. There are exceptions, but there really are not a lot of them.
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#8Seems like a new form of humble-brag to me.
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#9Strictly speaking that's not true. Much of our day is not a series of thought-through decisions, but rather cruise control without much conscious input.
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#10i would say the past has far greater bearing than the future on your actions...
you might want to be confident and outgoing, but your ability to vote for or express that action, is constrained by your life experiences and even biological things.