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> sitting there making stuff that falls right into the garbage can is incredibly depressing. What's the point? A very journey vs destination thought. If the jo

> sitting there making stuff that falls right into the garbage can is incredibly depressing. What's the point? A very journey vs destination thought. If the journey is your goal, then you already have the "point" you're looking for. If, however, the destination is the goal, then you are forever reaching out for your next "point", and the moment you reach one, you'll be reaching for another. Always looking for your next point that will never satisfy you. The preeminent philosopher Jake the Dog had an interesting comment about this sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFsQprx5pQM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFsQprx5pQM

azdle 10y ago
I get where you're coming from and hadn't really thought on that aspect explicitly yet, but my first thought is that rather I'm missing half of the journey that I want to have. To torture a metaphor, I like hiking, my wife and I have a goal of hiking the whole SHT [1] in bits and pieces over the course of 5 years. We've found parts of the trail that are absolutely amazing to hike, we could just hike those sames bits over and over again because we know that they're amazing and not risk having to hike the bits that are just a mowed bit of grassland (which is uninteresting to hike), but then we'd be missing out on the whole experiance and not only that we might be missing out on even better sections that we haven't encountered yet. I feel the same way about how I'm progressing in my career. I could keep doing the same bit over and over again and I'd probably be pretty damn good at it, but I just can't let myself. I'd rather keep exploring, keep experiencing not only what's new, but what's old-hat to others but new to me, and see if there's something out there that I'm even better at that I enjoy even more than what I already know. [1] https://shta.org https://shta.org
camerintinbun 10y ago
It depends on the perspective. If you spend your time learning, doing new things... That is incredibly enriching for the individual. However, those experiences are usually made possible by others. If you venture to do these things, create new stuff, only to have it trashed or never see the light of day, should it ever have been created at all? Things happen and projects fail that is true. But my goals are to ensure that the things I learn and apply can give back to the community and lessen the suffering of others. If I learn things and keep them to myself, they may as well not be learned at all.

azdle 10y ago

I get where you're coming from and hadn't really thought on that aspect explicitly yet, but my first thought is that rather I'm missing half of the journey that I want to have. To torture a metaphor, I like hiking, my wife and I have a goal of hiking the whole SHT [1] in bits and pieces over the course of 5 years. We've found parts of the trail that are absolutely amazing to hike, we could just hike those sames bits over and over again because we know that they're amazing and not risk having to hike the bits that are just a mowed bit of grassland (which is uninteresting to hike), but then we'd be missing out on the whole experiance and not only that we might be missing out on even better sections that we haven't encountered yet. I feel the same way about how I'm progressing in my career. I could keep doing the same bit over and over again and I'd probably be pretty damn good at it, but I just can't let myself. I'd rather keep exploring, keep experiencing not only what's new, but what's old-hat to others but new to me, and see if there's something out there that I'm even better at that I enjoy even more than what I already know. [1] https://shta.org https://shta.org

camerintinbun 10y ago

It depends on the perspective. If you spend your time learning, doing new things... That is incredibly enriching for the individual. However, those experiences are usually made possible by others. If you venture to do these things, create new stuff, only to have it trashed or never see the light of day, should it ever have been created at all? Things happen and projects fail that is true. But my goals are to ensure that the things I learn and apply can give back to the community and lessen the suffering of others. If I learn things and keep them to myself, they may as well not be learned at all.