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I understand what you’re trying to do with this comment, but arguably the river in this case is HN. The paragraph you mention is the tangible advice, but artic
by haswell 4y ago
I understand what you’re trying to do with this comment, but arguably the river in this case is HN.
The paragraph you mention is the tangible advice, but articulating the problem is in my mind even more important than the advice itself.
Advice is just advice. Maybe it applies to you, maybe it doesn’t. The problem is what remains. The problem if well articulated either validates the advice, or gives the reader information to process for themselves and from which personal insight can be reached.
The advice without the problem is just some guy on the Internet telling you what to do, and that, to me, is rather uninteresting.
- uoaei 4y agoI think many people are struggling with the same issues independently, all across society. This is equally true right now as it is in other times. Perhaps there are many who have identified the problem without settling on a satisfying solution. In these cases the context is already (painfully) familiar and the main insight will be the path forward out of their malaise. What you say is true for those who have never even grappled with the question, but I assume HN harbors folks who like to analyze inefficiencies in their lives, so I'd expect most of those here who already have reading lists to have contended with this problem and at least attempted to search for solutions in the past.