Re:Chucking TV Helped me Start my Company
by drivebyacct2 on Monday May 09, 2011 @05:07PM
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What? That has nothing to do with TV. It has everything to do with your apparent lack of self control. If I spend 45 minutes watching TV or 45 minutes playing with myself, what's the difference? They're both time that I could spend doing other things.
edit: And I never just watch TV anyway, I'm always doing something else, like coding or reading HN or looking at code on GitHub.
Re:Chucking TV Helped me Start my Company
by cabalamat on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @03:01AM
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> That has nothing to do with TV. It has everything to do with your apparent lack of self control.
I do have self-control, at least regarding TV. That's why I don't watch it at all. (I do have a television, it is gathering dust in a cupboard.)
> If I spend 45 minutes watching TV or 45 minutes playing with myself, what's the difference?
It is quite easy -- and millions of people do it -- to spend an entire evening watching TV. I dunno about you, but I have never spent 5 hours non-stop masturbating :-). So the one activity is self-limiting, but the other isn't.
No, I've learned a lot through it.
> I'd still ask what's so wrong about being "unproductive" some of the time?
Nothing. But TV tends to make me unproductive for more of the time than I want.