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I find many of the comments on this article hilarious -- Jesus Christ, HN commenters, can't you recognize the irony of complaining that your attention span is t

I find many of the comments on this article hilarious -- Jesus Christ, HN commenters, can't you recognize the irony of complaining that your attention span is too short to read an article about the joys of paying attention to the world around you?

forgottenpass 7y ago
This article is self important wankery. A few decent thoughts were able to sneak in, and you've somehow turned that into snarking at everyone who's brain is rightly trying to pull the emergency eject lever.
- bubble-07 7y ago
  I didn't interpret the article that way at all -- I can understand how somebody saying "hey, look at these neat things I found and learned outside!" could be misinterpreted as "self-important wankery" due to the natural "great for you!" or "who gives a shit?" reactions that kind of thing tends to garner. I at least found it neat _because of_ (not in spite of) the feeling that it was almost as if I was reading from the author's personal diary. Why such a negative reaction? I legitimately don't get your hostility. Imagine if a kindergartener wrote a book about their day spent playing outside on a Saturday -- would you call that "self-important wankery", too?
  - forgottenpass 7y ago
    >Why such a negative reaction? I was just matching the tone of >>Jesus Christ, HN commenters, can't you recognize the irony of [personal failing leading to not valuing the article as I did]
    - bubble-07 7y ago
      Okayyy, if you say sooo... You don't need to take everything you see on the internet as unnecessarily hostile. Heck, I was just trying to make light of what I saw as an absurd situation.
      - aidenn0 7y ago
        FWIW, many people will naturally read "Jesus Christ" used in a manner like you used in the original comment as aggressive.
        rdiddly 7y ago
        It's exasperation, not aggression.
        aidenn0 7y ago
        I agree that's how it was intended, but how it's intended is only very loosely related to how it is received.
- dang 7y ago
  Please don't break the site guidelines by being snarky and shallowly dismissing someone's work. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
RobertRoberts 7y ago
I would have enjoyed a blank page... it would have been a metaphysical experience. Maybe one sentence like "Think for a minute..."
- iamcurious 7y ago
  "(Don't) Think for a minute..."
- nacs 7y ago
  The bounce rate on that page with the HN crowd would be like 99.99% in 1 second followed by 5 minutes of composing a critique in the comments.
aidenn0 7y ago
Meh, I'm walking distance from a rose garden, and I think I'd have been better off spending my time sitting in that garden than having read this article. Actually this article read kind of like a literary labyrinth, in the sense of it changing directions repeatedly and at the end you realize you haven't gone anywhere. Some people I know greatly enjoy labyrinths, but they are not for me (nor is this article). As a final point, I am a very fast reader. Were I a slower reader, I likely would have stopped reading the article much sooner. This isn't an article with a surprise ending, so if you didn't like it 1/3 of the way through, I recommend not finishing it.
- bubble-07 7y ago
  Eh, fair enough -- a real experience beats reading about it any day. Literary labyrinths can be fun to explore, though it takes a certain mindset going in. I'd say that pieces like this are not "ingest with morning coffee" pieces, but more like lazy Sunday afternoon tea with (your preferred equivalent to) "Lofi hip hop mix - Beats to Relax/Study to" playing in the background. The article _does_ go somewhere, though, even if you wind up in nearly the same place you started. I for one didn't know much, if anything about the artists, places, and pieces the writer referenced, nor that BYTE magazine had such weird pictures, nor about the Chapel of the Chimes, nor what a scrub-jay sounds like, nor that Fiverr had such aggressive advertising campaigns, ... etc. As a collection of a bunch of little things (which suits the point of the article well), I at least found it interesting.

forgottenpass 7y ago

This article is self important wankery. A few decent thoughts were able to sneak in, and you've somehow turned that into snarking at everyone who's brain is rightly trying to pull the emergency eject lever.

bubble-07 7y ago
I didn't interpret the article that way at all -- I can understand how somebody saying "hey, look at these neat things I found and learned outside!" could be misinterpreted as "self-important wankery" due to the natural "great for you!" or "who gives a shit?" reactions that kind of thing tends to garner. I at least found it neat _because of_ (not in spite of) the feeling that it was almost as if I was reading from the author's personal diary. Why such a negative reaction? I legitimately don't get your hostility. Imagine if a kindergartener wrote a book about their day spent playing outside on a Saturday -- would you call that "self-important wankery", too?
- forgottenpass 7y ago
  >Why such a negative reaction? I was just matching the tone of >>Jesus Christ, HN commenters, can't you recognize the irony of [personal failing leading to not valuing the article as I did]
  - bubble-07 7y ago
    Okayyy, if you say sooo... You don't need to take everything you see on the internet as unnecessarily hostile. Heck, I was just trying to make light of what I saw as an absurd situation.
    - aidenn0 7y ago
      FWIW, many people will naturally read "Jesus Christ" used in a manner like you used in the original comment as aggressive.
      - rdiddly 7y ago
        It's exasperation, not aggression.
        aidenn0 7y ago
        I agree that's how it was intended, but how it's intended is only very loosely related to how it is received.
dang 7y ago
Please don't break the site guidelines by being snarky and shallowly dismissing someone's work. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

RobertRoberts 7y ago

I would have enjoyed a blank page... it would have been a metaphysical experience. Maybe one sentence like "Think for a minute..."

iamcurious 7y ago
"(Don't) Think for a minute..."
nacs 7y ago
The bounce rate on that page with the HN crowd would be like 99.99% in 1 second followed by 5 minutes of composing a critique in the comments.

aidenn0 7y ago

Meh, I'm walking distance from a rose garden, and I think I'd have been better off spending my time sitting in that garden than having read this article. Actually this article read kind of like a literary labyrinth, in the sense of it changing directions repeatedly and at the end you realize you haven't gone anywhere. Some people I know greatly enjoy labyrinths, but they are not for me (nor is this article). As a final point, I am a very fast reader. Were I a slower reader, I likely would have stopped reading the article much sooner. This isn't an article with a surprise ending, so if you didn't like it 1/3 of the way through, I recommend not finishing it.

bubble-07 7y ago
Eh, fair enough -- a real experience beats reading about it any day. Literary labyrinths can be fun to explore, though it takes a certain mindset going in. I'd say that pieces like this are not "ingest with morning coffee" pieces, but more like lazy Sunday afternoon tea with (your preferred equivalent to) "Lofi hip hop mix - Beats to Relax/Study to" playing in the background. The article _does_ go somewhere, though, even if you wind up in nearly the same place you started. I for one didn't know much, if anything about the artists, places, and pieces the writer referenced, nor that BYTE magazine had such weird pictures, nor about the Chapel of the Chimes, nor what a scrub-jay sounds like, nor that Fiverr had such aggressive advertising campaigns, ... etc. As a collection of a bunch of little things (which suits the point of the article well), I at least found it interesting.