A decade later, a decade lost

Re:A decade later, a decade lost by AdieuToLogic on Saturday February 15, 2025 @12:57AM (#43056264)

>> Sometimes it helps to contemplate the nature of remote possibilities. Most times, it does not.

> ... for a lot of people, and I'd guess HN has a very dense concentration of them, that's very hard to not do, because we've been trained to do exactly that, for professional work.

I can definitely relate. Working in various teams quite similar to what you describe, I'd say these examples are fine exemplars of the "sometimes it helps" category.

Luckily, these are engineering related and not arbitrary familial threat vectors, real or imagined, as the latter are often (not always) not quantifiable to a statistically meaningful degree.

> I don't know how to turn this off when it's not helpful. I've done it too long. :/

Here again, I can definitely relate. :-)

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Re:A decade later, a decade lost by Syonyk on Saturday February 15, 2025 @01:10AM (#43056310)

I switched career paths in an attempt to get away from that.

It turns out, it follows me. I have a decade worth of finely honed pessimism maximizer I cannot get to stop running against everything.

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