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But there is only so much time that you can be effective at running a business or running. Some people need to relax from the stress of work and tiredness of ex
by nico_h 6y ago
But there is only so much time that you can be effective at running a business or running. Some people need to relax from the stress of work and tiredness of exercise by playing games for example.
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- tachyonbeam 6y agoBut is it all that relaxing to build and run a complex virtual factory? Sometimes if the level of difficulty is too high it can become stressful. I understand that there's satisfaction in it. That satisfaction can be hard to get at work sometimes. At work, you can be asked to work on things you don't like, that sometimes feel even more pointless than a game. Part of the reason why I have programming side-projects at home is because they're an outlet to get the satisfaction of building software the way I want to.
- devonkim 6y agoThe consequences of messing up a make believe factory is essentially nothing except one’s own time loss. The consequences of messing up a real factory are obviously substantial. What games or side projects let us do sometimes is to explore and enter a more diffuse mode of thought which has some tangential benefits to other activities. Spending too much time “being productive” can be counterproductive because one can get tunnel vision too busy executing tasks instead of reimagining or optimizing those tasks. Too much time questioning the work and nothing materially important gets done either.