Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?

Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? by asveikau on Friday October 07, 2022 @12:01PM (#33123120)

I think it might be more that a lot of people in tech have poor work-life balances and bad interpersonal dynamics, and this causes high stress and receptivity to coping mechanisms.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? by parroteal on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:14AM (#33162419)

That's exactly what I think.

Much of what modern Stoics put forth appears to be an excuse to dissociate from emotional pain, not cope with unchangeable fate or hardship.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? by asveikau on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @01:02PM (#33165798)

Thank you for this well put reply.

I think I need to add that I don't mean to judge for this. I've been in similar places too. It can be a fine line with many shades of gray between "dissocation" and "coping". Some of it may be useful to somebody. Falling into it as a trap is very human.

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