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Re:Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2... by jonas-w on Monday December 05, 2022 @10:52PM (#33875703)
To produce more than consume.

My life currently is 90% consumption, be it media, news, tv shows, movies, food, etc. I feel like a trash can. Not that majority of the stuff i consume is trash, but that the stuff i consume trashes me. I only do stuff that i need to, sometimes not even that because i'm too occupied consuming.

My goal is to lower my "I/O" and to choose more wisely what should take up my "bandwidth". And at the same time to free some "disk"-/brain-space.

Basically reducing screen time and finding activities that can be done without electronics and maybe give me some energy back instead of draining my "battery".

The problem is my only real interest is programming, sysadmin stuff or basically anything that has something to do with creating/doing something on something that has a processor in it.

Going to be interesting to develop skills outside of my usual comfort zone but it is long due.

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Re:Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2... by renaissance_tea on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:09AM (#33876166)
Well said. You’re off to a good start because you produced this comment and it resonated with me.
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Re:Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2... by jonas-w on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @06:49PM (#33888773)
I hoped for a good start after that comment but today was definitely not a good start :|
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Re:Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2... by sol2k on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:41AM (#33876329)
I share this sentiment. Would be interesting to see how many folks this resonates with, maybe it's the beginning of a wonderful support group. And the irony that it started on HN will be lost on... well, nobody!
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Re:Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2... by jonas-w on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @09:30AM (#33880430)
I wish. A few people actually upvoted, we seem not to be alone. But when we look at the broader society, it looks like everyone just wants to consume. Maybe they also just struggle to find something outside of the digital world that brings them the same kick of dopamine over and over...
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