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Re:Men Who Stare at Walls on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @01:35PM (#47937730)
Thanks for mentioning this.
Re:Men Who Stare at Walls on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @01:35PM (#47937724)
That's the case for me.

I still use agents for everything, but started on doing my best to single-task.

Think or plan while it's running.

Feels wasteful, but it's powerful.

Re:Men Who Stare at Walls on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @01:34PM (#47937711)
This is great. Puts Rick Rubin's appearance into perspective.
Re:Men Who Stare at Walls on Monday April 27, 2026 @01:42PM (#47924781)
I hope people see this comment.

Meditation is to mental training and focus, as going to the gym is to physical training.

Socials killed our attention span. Agents are literally making us context switch even more.

Putting aside the whole "I am at piece and one with the world" part of meditation, it is extremely hard.

I'm also no expert. When I'm waiting for something to finish (agent, compilation, etc), I've found that staring at a wall ends up in a net positive in productivity rather than replying to a message, going on X, or kicking off another agent.

Re:GitHub Driven RSS Feeds: Paul Graham, Anthropic, and More on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @06:25PM (#47870111)
Let's not forget the quality and calm of high quality newsletters.

If you need an RSS feed for a blog that doesn't have one, open an issue!

I've started getting support from other contributors. Please support them too!

Re:GitHub's Fake Star Economy on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:22PM (#47837572)
Literally posted about this but w.r.t to agent-skills yesterday: https://olshansky.substack.com/p/why-every-developer-needs-t...

Need to move from skill downloads to skill usage.

Re:I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @06:59PM (#47682421)
I've never found a Hacker News comment this insightful. Ty.
Re:Jump VR: Realistic Wingsuit Simulator on Friday April 03, 2026 @12:33PM (#47628795)
I ran into the founder of TheVoid.com yesterday and he's on to a new venture where he finally executes on his vission.

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