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International Institute of Not Doing Much
- dt3ft 4y agoThe website has a menu which slides open blazingly fast. Perhaps someone should inform them that the menu can be rendered slower?
- layer8 4y agoI believe it’s important to learn to slow down yourself, instead of having the UI slow you down involuntarily.
- WJW 4y agoI just shared the above comment with my wife and we both agree that it is one of the wisest things we have heard today. Well done layer8 and may you be (voluntarily) slow on all your days!
- bee_rider 4y agoGood news -- the site has been hugged to slowness. Although, quick tools enable human procrastination.
- gruturo 4y agoWhy do you want to inflict an annoyance and deliberately waste 0.1 seconds (or whatever amount you deem appropriate) of everybody's time? Slowness should be a deliberate, individual choice. I'd be happy if there was a global cfg variable in the OS or browser, where you indicate the amount of pointless, "feel-good" slowness you wish to have in your interactions with any UI element, then you can have your way while I have mine too. I want things as quick as possible so I can race to idle sooner!
- breakfastduck 4y agoIt's obviously a joke based on the fact the domain name is 'slow down now'
- layer8 4y ago> Error establishing a database connection HN readers should slow down a bit and not do so much.
- chrisMyzel 4y agothe DB just decided for HN to slow down itself
- jerkstate 4y agoI'm a week into a month-long time off (which I really needed) and can add a few suggestions: * Put your phone away * Read a silly book for pleasure * Watch children playing, and play with them if you can * Take a long walk, try not to retrace your steps * Get some sun (maybe on a walk), and then take a nap * Appreciate something mundane
- h2odragon 4y ago> Watch children playing, and play with them if you can Puppies, kittens, and baby goats work too; and are less likely to spark misunderstandings that can lead to legal difficulties.
- WesolyKubeczek 4y ago> less likely to spark misunderstandings that can lead to legal difficulties If you tend to look at things like that, better be careful with those baby goats.
- samb1729 4y agoJust make sure you don’t have a moustache and you’ll be fine
- dubswithus 4y agoI won't be able to find the tweet but there was a woman that was watching children playing behind a fence from the sidewalk and was asked to leave. I forget the exact details of how it escalated. It's so weird in America sometimes. In other countries no one even notices you.
- jdthedisciple 4y agoNot true. Over here in Germany I was once out working out at my usual calisthenics ground where sometimes a lot of children and parents come by as well. So some of these kids started talking to me asking random questions and stuff and I chatted back and one of their mothers came up to me like I was some pedo harrassing her little ones and screamed at me to stop talking to them. And it was in broad daylight as well, with many people around! Sad times for men, in this regard.
- max_ 4y ago> Minimal effort has three parts. > 1. It’s a practice of only doing those things that are necessary or enjoyable. > 2. Do fewer things and do them slowly. > 3. Sadly, we’ve forgotten what number three is, but we know it’s important. Please contact us if you remember 1 seems related to Hommo Ludens [1] [0]: https://www.slowdownnow.org/minimal-effort/ https://www.slowdownnow.org/minimal-effort/ [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens
- sitkack 4y agoI'd like to remind everyone that Alarm Clocks Kill Dreams! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHxPgUlsbv0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHxPgUlsbv0
- Gordonjcp 4y ago> Error establishing a database connection Eh, I'll read it later. No rush.
- dubswithus 4y agoI'm contemplating visiting this site. What does everyone else think?
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agowe'll let you know in a couple of weeks.
- dubswithus 4y agoMake it four. I'm unbooked until then.
- snowwrestler 4y agoOften I’m dismayed at what gets posted to HN on the weekend, but this seems perfect for (what is in this time zone) a Saturday morning.
- leohonexus 4y agoThe name reminds me of the Monty Python sketch - The Royal Society of Putting Things on Top of Other Things! https://youtu.be/LFrdqQZ8FFc https://youtu.be/LFrdqQZ8FFc
- jdthedisciple 4y agoSadly doesn't come in the right moment for me. I am currently in the institute of speedthef**updomoreandearnyourfirstthreepenniesonyourownalready
- gchamonlive 4y agoIn the words of Groucho Marx: "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member".
- photochemsyn 4y agoMembers are expected to take it easy and slowly ponder this and that, preferably on a sofa or in the bathtub. One of the more unusual and interesting early 20th century physicists was Leo Szilard, whose daily 'work' routine involved soaking in the bathtub from perhaps 9am-noon, during which time he would think about nuclear physics among other things. Likely as a result of all this pondering, he realized that nuclear chain reactions were possible, if an element could be found that released two or more neutrons when bombarded with one neutron... six years before the discovery of fission. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/leo-szilard-a-traffic-light-and-a-slice-of-nuclear-history/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio... This is a useful anecdote to relate whenever anyone tells you to get out of the bathtub and get back to work.
- Borrible 4y agoI like to just sit in a park and poison pigeons while reading HN. Right now I'm in Potsdam Sanssouci, 91.4F. Too hot for The Ministry of Silly Walks. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPFT8EnLUg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPFT8EnLUg
- alexshendi 4y agoI'm afraid I can't join. I'm already a member of the reowned "International Institute of Doing One Thing in the Morning and the Opposite in the Afternoon". Sorry!