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When did we forget our dreams?
- llimllib 18y agoIt's not that the routines cause thoughtlessness but that, ideally, the routines free us to think about and do important, creative things by making the daily doldrums automatic. Sure, sometimes it's good to dive back into reinventing the routines (or taking a road trip and questioning the purpose of the routine), but very few people can get work done that way. And getting work done is a valuable goal.
- coglethorpe 18y agoGreat. My employer saw the last three frames and now I'm fired for what someone else wrote.
- gills 18y agoCan't think of a better reason to go build your startup :)
- lux 18y agoAbsolutely! Just uploading the latest changes to our "stealth mode" startup site right now :) We'll be in invite-only mode by the end of the weekend, and completely public sometime next month. Stoked! Thinking about these kinds of things, I feel sad for other people who haven't taken a risk on a dream. Caring about something as passionately as a startup you've build from the ground up is something I imagine many people never get to feel, although maybe having kids is similar (don't have any, so I couldn't say...). But as far as the 9-5 goes, I'd rather care about what I built in that time rather than feel it was wasted on something not worth doing. Ooh, upload just finished, here I go! :)
- __ 18y agoThat's pretty reliable evidence that it's a crappy company.
- fendale 18y agoI hope the OP was joking :-/
- prakash 18y agoPG: can you please add xkcd hostname to the blacklist? Not because it's bad -- actually it's brilliant, but adds very little to this community in terms of news. After getting techcrunched, is xkcd the second sign of HN going the reddit way?
- GavinB 18y ago"If the AI stops wanting to be friendly, you've already lost." Something similar is true of social media user groups.
- icey 18y agoIt'd be pretty sweet to allow us to put a list of domains we don't want to see links for in our preferences.
- prakash 18y agoI had asked for something similar a while back.
- neilc 18y agoWhy not just do it yourself via Greasemonkey? The bitching about xkcd is getting annoying (as is the constant speculation about "Is this the moment when HN is going to jump the shark?)
- brianlash 18y agoInteresting point, but that's a slippery slope away from a big community and toward a system of silos for those whose preferences closely match your own. I don't think that's what HN's about. The uncommon position of this site is that it's a diverse community of people with intermixing ideas and persuasions. Neat things happen when they work together (and when they argue). I'd be worried you'd lose a piece of that if HN started allowing users to establish their own filtering preferences, even if based on something as simple as domain blocking. For the record I did love this post. Was it news? No. But we stretch the definition of "hacker news" to include topical things all the time. Why not permit it here?
- maxklein 18y agoI don't think people ever forget their dreams. They always remember them, but just move in the direction that is expected of them, and never actually implement their dreams. But they don't forget. Something I recently realised is this - this is it! Where I live, what I am doing, who my friends are - this is my life! This is not a temporary stop while I figure out how to make millions, after which I will actually start living, no, it already started and I'm a part of it. Waiting may take longer than I expect, so I better enjoy the wait as much as I well can. That's why I'm not giving up my life to create a startup. Rather, I'll enjoy things as they come every day, and dedicate an appropriate amount of time towards realising my dreams. If the dreams never work out, it really is not that bad, because I enjoyed the time right up until then.
- dhimes 18y agoYou've learned the message of Buddha and Pink Floyd well.
- mrtron 18y agoRegardless of your personal thoughts on religion or music, those two messages resonate with almost everyone. edit: From Wish you were here: 'We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year | Running over the same old ground | What have you found? The same old fears.'
- Bluem00 18y agoThis is an old comic and normally I'd be annoyed, but this one is an exception: Reflecting on my dreams, even if I've chosen not to pursue some of them, has greatly improved my mood on this particular day. Do it again tomorrow? :)
- redorb 18y agothe essence of your comment if beautiful.. tomorrow would be great.
- xlnt 18y agoI didn't forget my dreams.
- mindcrime 18y agoThat is bloody brilliant! Love it...
- noonespecial 18y agoYes, we can all go right to xkcd, or techcrunch or whatever and read them ourselves. Thats not the point of posting them on Hacker News. The point is that the discussion that follows about the ideas in the articles/comics is still radically different on HN than most other places. Randall has some thoughts that apply very well in a group like this so his comics appear here often and start interesting discussions. The only thing not interesting to me is that every time one is getting started I have to wade through a boundary layer of "lets blacklist xkcd" comments. Doc my karma if you will, but I think the silent majority has voted with the upmod arrow on the post. I am one of them.
- aneesh 18y agoCompletely agree, but I'm refraining from upmodding you because it would surely be ironic if this becomes the top comment, instead of some real discussion on pursuing our dreams!
- noonespecial 18y agoHa. Definitely. Sometimes karma catches you off guard. I didn't expect to get any upmods for that. It was a bit of a rant really. When I got here, it was just about entirely a discussion about blacklisting xkcd and I thought the comic had brought up something that was really worth talking about. Of course, as soon as I post this the karma discussion effect will begin and it'll be downvoted back to something reasonable I think. Just don't - me bro... :)
- nazgulnarsil 18y agothis is existentialism in a shiny wrapper.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoread the first sentence in the wikipedia article on existentialism before you downmod please.
- cousin_it 18y agoWow, you said that word. It's unfashionable. Existentialism isn't popular as self-help because it's not optimistic. There's no natural law that every truth must be shiny happy. "Existence precedes essence" accurately describes our world, but doesn't motivate. A good antidote against religion and propaganda, though.
- yan 18y agoAll this talk of following one's dreams is really making me want to finish The Alchemist, which I started last night.
- anr 18y agoSorry, but why not go right to the good stuff? You'll find a great list in Harold Bloom's "Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds". http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446691291/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446691291/
- ovi256 18y agoWhen the first bill came due.
- Tichy 18y agoOh, the text in the middle is meant to be read? I read the cartoon only as "you should be more careful sdojdsa fosadf aösdpoifasdö fojahdsfösdaof sddfjjdsjdsjfsd föso fsdöfo sdfsd fuck that shit".
- michael_dorfman 18y agoA classic. And, when hiring, I certainly wouldn't hold a rant like that posted somewhere on the internet against an applicant...
- as 18y agoI've had this on my wall for months.