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Very similar to “chop wood, carry water” Seems like I’m seeing a cultural shift happening in the last few months to people re/discovering zen-stoicism-minimali
by AndrewKemendo 3y ago
Very similar to “chop wood, carry water”
Seems like I’m seeing a cultural shift happening in the last few months to people re/discovering zen-stoicism-minimalism
Probably the cyclical nature of trends
- jprete 3y agoIt also might be a response to the apparent chaos of generative AI.
- mathgeek 3y agoIt certainly seems to be the trend currently. There’s money and brands to be made convincing people to stop distracting themselves with all the trends you made money and brands convincing them to do.
- mycologos 3y agoMy perception is that stoicism has been a buzzword on HN for the entire time I've been here (~since 2017?). The uptick in various forms of doomsaying around that time might have had something to do with it.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoYeah some of these philosophical positions have a baseline frequency generally - biased up or down for the respective group. However, the frequency seems to be increasing, though my caveat is that this increase is cyclical - so not “new” per se, but cyclically new.
- bemusedthrow75 3y agoIt's possibly just that you're noticing it. Tech people on the internet have been like this for as long as I can remember the internet (31 years in my case). Sometimes intolerably smugly, like Jack Dorsey.
- ambrose2 3y agoPeople online were talking about zen and minimalism as being pretty trendy in 2010, so back then I had predicted that probably by now maximalism or something would be trendy as a response. I don’t think simple cyclical trends is a great model anymore.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoIs your perspective that the concept of a trend cycle is somehow incompatible with it also being reactionary?