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I used to like making things that are useful to other people (2), but just us people quickly switch to your shiny new thing, they quickly switch away to the nex
by hyperpallium2 5y ago
I used to like making things that are useful to other people (2), but just us people quickly switch to your shiny new thing, they quickly switch away to the next shiny new thing.
That impermanence makes me feel it was never intrinsically valuable.
- slothtrop 5y agoEverything is ultimately impermanent. I think over time novelty-seeking takes more of a backseat to the work itself (from which to draw value), whether or not we rationalize it's importance. You can probably argue for or against the value of anything, the more detached and objective you try to be about it and after enough scrutiny, nothing we make feels valuable. I think we can't accurately predict the extent to which our work will be valuable to someone else. The Feynman perspective I came across is that we should "play", follow those kernels of interest whatever they may be, and that may turn into "something". Whether intuition, foolishness, whatever, having curiosity/interest feels good.
- hyperpallium2 5y agoThere's less impermanence in becoming part of the "stack" (e.g. geometry, algebra, calculus, Kleene algebra, relational algebra, unix, C) or being an inspiration/predecessor of progeny (C again). But that's real hard. I agree with the "play" attitude having a sense of intrinsic value, regardless of newness, importance or usefulness.