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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by diamondage on Sunday February 06, 2022 @08:05AM (#30232151)
I'd add that it's about detail - if you thin slice reality for efficiency, reality becomes more simplistic. But you can also discover infinitely more detail. walking into a library reveals that there is an infinite amount of things to know, and there are all kinds of differences between two similar glasses of wine etc. Perhaps its more about the spare energy of the individual available for learning and discovery
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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by MegaDeKay on Sunday February 06, 2022 @09:33AM (#30232808)
I'm into my sixth decade, and I will agree with you that it's about detail. I find more and more rabbit holes to go down that are just fascinating. I make ice cream, but how can I make really good ice cream? What are the pros and cons of regular switches vs. leaf switches for the retro arcade controller I want to build? Why does putting a bunch of wood mulch around my fruit trees do so much to improve the soil ecology? The list goes on. I am never bored.

I think many people take the availability of information we have at our fingertips today for granted. It wasn't always this way. Dig into it, learn something, rinse and repeat.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by learc83 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @09:12AM (#30232622)
Exactly. The way I think about it is that anything is interesting if studied in enough detail.

A single square inch of lawn could provide material for multiple PhDs.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by erwincoumans on Sunday February 06, 2022 @10:08AM (#30233138)
Indeed. Just studying your last sentence could provide inspiration of finding funny alternative sayings to 'get off my lawn'.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by contingencies on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:22AM (#30242760)
Added as Learc's Lamentation to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
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