My suggestion to take HN offline for a month should be taken the same way as when one says to his group of friends "hey, let's see what would happen if we went a week without pants."

6 days in, everything's fine thank you.

I don't really know whether I should even bother responding to this, because there's no way that 'pg' would shut down HN for a month based on kyro's philosophical musings. And for taking kyro's comment as a threat, you ought be downvoted. Besides, there's noprocrast.

However, if kyro is serious, then he really should take a monthlong retreat away from HN, crank up the soccer-times lifestyle, and get away from it all.

I will say this: I've spent a lot of time both online and in the social world. And I don't know how to properly answer kyro's lifestyle query.

A month is a bit extreme, but I do remember pg posting a poll in all serious asking if he should shut down HN for an hour each day.

A personal month long retreat from HN does sound tempting though.