Re:Write Simply
by sillysaurusx on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:41AM
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Perhaps, but you don’t write about lisp the way you write about pg. The enthusiasm is infectious.
If you met yourself at 10 and wanted to transmit some advice about what you need to do to feel free, what would you say? (I’m curious if you’ve made progress towards answering the question, or if it’s as elusive as it sounds.)
I've made progress but it's not easy to gauge how much.
10 is too early for the "what would you tell yourself" question. At 10 you don't yet have a self that can be retroactively told things to. I suppose I would say "it's all ok and you're ok and it's all happening for a reason".
To my 15 year-old self and later, I would say: it's not going to be anything like you expect, so trust what happens and try not to resist.
The important question is to figure out what one needs to do to become free (i.e. to feel free) oneself. How do you get from your initial conditions to that state? I've basically devoted my life, so far, to that question and I'm still at it.
p.s. I comment like this on HN pretty regularly; those comments are just drowned out by "if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules in the future, we'd sure appreciate it lol xoxo"