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Being too often on HN is clearly destructive for me. Seeing a post about some advanced stuff where I don't understand anything in the article and seeing dozen
by whynotmaybe 4y ago
Being too often on HN is clearly destructive for me.
Seeing a post about some advanced stuff where I don't understand anything in the article and seeing dozen of different people commenting on it gives me such an imposter syndrome.
My mind goes into the "HN is for people like you, you should know this stuff"
- taskforcegemini 4y agoI spend too much time on hn, but don't think I share your approach. Either I learn something, enjoy reading it (or both), or skip the issue alltogether. Is everything where you think "you should know this stuff" actually relevant to you, or just interesting?
- whynotmaybe 4y agoThat's the issue with my mind, the filter between "I should know it" and "you'll learn it if you need it" is sometimes not working. Like the post about Numba, the Python compiler. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34148455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34148455 I've never used Python, and probably won't ever use it, but some deep part of me "needs" to read the article. It's harder for me to fight this insatiable desire to learn something unuseful, than to stop reading HN.
- quaintdev 4y agoI saw the Social Dilemma 5-6 days back and since then I have been little vary of touching my phone. Since yesterday morning I had been putting my phone deliberately in other room and I certainly feel spiked in terms of energy. I guess I will do same thing for HN and Reddit.