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It's doubtful free time is the bottleneck for most people not acquiring new skills and abilities. Enormous quantities of time are drained from folks' lives by p
by ellyagg 17y ago
It's doubtful free time is the bottleneck for most people not acquiring new skills and abilities. Enormous quantities of time are drained from folks' lives by procrastination.
- tjic 17y ago... and by news.yc ! ;-)
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoFor me, HN is a time suck, but it also inspires me to do things I might not otherwise bother. Overall, I think it works out to a wash in terms of net productivity.
- tjic 17y agoIndeed. My comment was intended 80% just for humor!
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoI know, but the other 20% is where the soul of a hacker resides. :)
- nkh 17y agoThis discussion always reminds me of a poem by Herbert Kauffman printed in "How I raised myself from failure to Success in Sales": You are the man who used to boast That you'd achieve the uttermost, Some day. You merely wished a show, To demonstrate how much you know And prove the distance you can go.... Another year we've just passed through What new ideas came to you? How many big things did you do? Time...left twelve fresh months in your care How many of them did you share With opportunity and dare Again where you so often missed? We do not find you on the list of Makers Good. Explain that fact! Ah no, 'twas not the chance you lacked! As usual-you failed to act!