Re:Ask HN: How do I balance all my 200 interests in life?
by tetris11 on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @08:40AM
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Horrible advice: find a way to blend your work with your interests so that you no longer understand where your core work hours start and the obsessiveness begins. Do this for > 12 hours a day, every day, holidays included. Tell your loved ones that you're busy with work, and take small satisfaction that what you just said was half true. Develop an unhealthy addiction to liquid stimulants and spring out of bed every morning with a burning curiosity that wont abate until you've tripped over enough hurdles to crush your enthusiasm for a few hours. Rinse and repeat for a decade until you're no longer a jack of all trades, but a master of most. Try to convey your interests to those around you, and failing that, retreat to social media where you will attempt to spin these as career developing STAR moments. Accept the disappointment you will feel in knowing that no one will appreciate the efforts you went to in achieving this level of tedious mastery.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I balance all my 200 interests in life?
by nehal3m on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @12:30PM
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Please stop. Get some help. No, seriously.
Re:Ask HN: How do I balance all my 200 interests in life?
by tyre on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @08:49AM
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Dude are you okay?
Re:Ask HN: How do I balance all my 200 interests in life?
by etrautmann on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @08:57AM
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Parent’s comment was perfect IMO
Re:Ask HN: How do I balance all my 200 interests in life?
by shivc on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @09:26AM
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dude this was next level lol
Re:Ask HN: How do I balance all my 200 interests in life?
by LogHouse on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @04:34PM
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Hurts but is a likely truth. I need to print this and remind myself of it daily as I lean this way with a young child at home.
Re:Ask HN: How do I balance all my 200 interests in life?
by tetris11 on Thursday May 30, 2024 @04:33AM
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I know that the moment that I have kids, this, all this (gestures vaguely at the mess that is my intense hobbyist life) comes to an end. Unfortunately every time the opportunity has presented itself, I've run away; scared to abandon my ego or compromise my twisted values for the sake of responsibility. This is no way to live. I will get there eventually, but I wish I didn't have to ruin the lives of others along the way.