Things that are useful sometimes displace those that are useful right now. news.yc definitely falls in that category for me sometimes. Its also easy to be blind

Things that are useful sometimes displace those that are useful right now. news.yc definitely falls in that category for me sometimes. Its also easy to be blindsided when what you are reading seems to have a high payoff at some arbitrary point in the future (with low odds) , and what you are working on is something with a low immediate payoff (with high odds). In short enticing articles about haskell and llvm sometimes keep me from doing the routine things that matter on a daily basis. I would like to believe that this self corrects after a while but I havent collected any data to support this notion.