Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by pschuegr on Sunday July 31, 2022 @11:17PM
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Insightful comment, thanks. Finding better ways to frame things is an important tool.
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by amberglow on Monday August 01, 2022 @03:26AM
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There are different kinds of boredom -- one where you can think of something on your own, other where you are distracted constantly or an opposite, concentrated on something boring. First allow you to relax, recuperate, plan, other one doesn't seem to be constructive to me.
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by liberia on Sunday July 31, 2022 @06:09PM
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Well as a hacker, boredom is the enemy and we’re always at war with boredom. For a hacker, boredom is a form of death.
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by corobo on Monday August 01, 2022 @03:20AM
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I gotta disagree here. Boredom is where all my ideas come from. Boredom is the catalyst to wondering how Xyz works.
Boredom is taking an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and then realising you can put a front end on that and do it as a service for people who don't have that skillset.
No boredom, no hacking.
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by lostmsu on Thursday August 04, 2022 @05:18PM
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The second para though is not part of boredom.
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by corobo on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:24AM
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The second paragraph was a HN-jokey way to describe hacking a project from a personal itch to a service with a target market
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by switchbak on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:50AM
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Well, some hackers are also Buddhists, which don't tend to view boredom like that.
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by NovaVeles on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:33AM
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And that is how we get Bodhi Linux. ;)
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by ta988 on Sunday July 31, 2022 @06:37PM
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Not my experience. I'm happy to hack things so I have more alone space and time too. I don't see the two opposed at all.
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by GrifMD on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:57PM
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This sounds like a quote from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by a123b456c on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:33AM
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Motivation to explore/create <> motivation to avoid boredom.
"enemy" ... "at war with" ... "death" ... such metaphors.
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by xcambar on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:57AM
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As a hacker, boredom is a powerful motivator and creator.
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by tjr225 on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:27AM
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As a hacker,
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by mars009 on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:34AM
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Honestly this. I never understood the point of mowing a lawn until now. Taking care of my yard (while failing miserable in some places), gets me away from my computer/phone/tv/whatever, and in touch with the outside world, even if its just me and my yard.
Heck, I have come up with solutions to coding problems while mowing or just removing weeds
Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
by xcambar on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:24PM
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> Heck, I have come up with solutions to coding problems while mowing or just removing weeds
As paradoxical as it sounds, serendipity does not happen on its own. You have to foster an environment to let it bloom. Exactly what you did here.
Boredom is typically the most controversial, so the reason here is that boredom first allows for moments you want out of, but also there's more: It expands the range of comfort zone of emotions and sets the ground floor of your emotions low enough that you can actually welcome more experiences as rather good. That limits the number of "meh" moments drastically. Beware though that setting the ground floor of your emotions lower doesn't mean it lowers down the average "feeling of happiness" in your life.
The thing I reject the most today is the constant pressure for action, movement and performance. I used to love them though but now, nearing 40, I see them a way to escape rather than embrace what life has to offer.