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I mean that I am making myself feel worse for reading HN... <lightHeartedAttemptAtEmpathyAndEncouragement> That's a signal that your focus has shifted a littl

by edw519 15y ago

I mean that I am making myself feel worse for reading HN... <lightHeartedAttemptAtEmpathyAndEncouragement> That's a signal that your focus has shifted a little too much from your own work to HN. Take a day off and invest that energy back where it belongs. We'll be here when you get back. Promise. </lightHeartedAttemptAtEmpathyAndEncouragement> EDIT: Added tags (Lighten up you guys).

grandalf 15y ago
Rather than interpreting his essay as a sign of HN becoming too important in his life, I think it's more accurate to say that he values HN and feels that a blog post is a good way to contribute useful ideas back to the community.
- rokhayakebe 15y ago
  Correct, but sometimes it is best to just ignore what is happening and accept that these are just opinions. Once you let it go once or twice, it becomes much easier to just ignore threads that add no value.
- thaumaturgy 15y ago
  Yes, but it's also reasonable to say that HN is a distraction, and the more time you spend on it, the more you tune in to the various tribes and trends and stuff -- whether they actually exist, or not. (Every attempt so far to objectively measure any decline in discourse on HN has failed, so I try to remain consciously skeptical of any claims to that effect.) I do this as a conscious self-correction now. Any time I find myself getting wound up by something on HN -- which, fortunately, isn't very often any more -- I try to leave it for a few days, or more. When I come back, it's magically a better place. Not that I want raganwald to go away for a while. His name is one that I appreciate seeing in comment threads. :-)
cbs 15y ago
>That's a signal that your focus has shifted a little too much from your own work to HN. Amusing that to be the only reason is significantly oversimplifying. The HN community is at best corrosive to the reader that is looking for technology and some buisness discussion. I made the mistake of assuming thats what I'd find here; once I got rid of silly notion, I found I no longer had a ill feeling when I went back to work after my lunch break.

by edw519 15y ago

grandalf 15y ago

Rather than interpreting his essay as a sign of HN becoming too important in his life, I think it's more accurate to say that he values HN and feels that a blog post is a good way to contribute useful ideas back to the community.

rokhayakebe 15y ago
Correct, but sometimes it is best to just ignore what is happening and accept that these are just opinions. Once you let it go once or twice, it becomes much easier to just ignore threads that add no value.
thaumaturgy 15y ago
Yes, but it's also reasonable to say that HN is a distraction, and the more time you spend on it, the more you tune in to the various tribes and trends and stuff -- whether they actually exist, or not. (Every attempt so far to objectively measure any decline in discourse on HN has failed, so I try to remain consciously skeptical of any claims to that effect.) I do this as a conscious self-correction now. Any time I find myself getting wound up by something on HN -- which, fortunately, isn't very often any more -- I try to leave it for a few days, or more. When I come back, it's magically a better place. Not that I want raganwald to go away for a while. His name is one that I appreciate seeing in comment threads. :-)

cbs 15y ago

>That's a signal that your focus has shifted a little too much from your own work to HN. Amusing that to be the only reason is significantly oversimplifying. The HN community is at best corrosive to the reader that is looking for technology and some buisness discussion. I made the mistake of assuming thats what I'd find here; once I got rid of silly notion, I found I no longer had a ill feeling when I went back to work after my lunch break.