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Maybe I read too much Hacker News, but frankly I find a lot of startups uninspiring. Social this, web-based that, yadda yadda. Again, I might just need an att

• thinkcomp 16y ago
  No, you're exactly right.
• guylhem 16y ago
  Doing is easy. Finding out what you want to do is not - at least not for me. It also seems you are self-deprecating. You must have some value - you were not paid for doing nothing! But maybe what was found valuable in you by corporate america differs from what you define as a value. Have you tried reading philosophy? It helped me. If philosophy is not your thing you can try more accessible literature. My biased suggestion would be Atlas Shrugged. I would also suggest trying to define your life values (what's important for you?) and following that, defining your life goals (where do you want to make a chance?) - then it's "just" a matter of implementation.
  • groaner 16y ago
    Thanks. I just finished the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius not too long ago, and it was sobering but refreshing.
    • guylhem 16y ago
      I'd rather suggest Nietszche or Atlas Shrugged because they are better remedies against actual nihilism IMHO. But whatever you read, if you find some value in it - keep going ! Try lesswrong and transhumanist websites if that's your thing. Or anything else - it's your tastes that matters. As many others pointed in the thread, anomie is best fought if you create your own meaning. To me, this meant defining my own values first.