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You’re pretty derisive about the idea of watching TV or settling for not doing hard things and sound like you’re fishing for compliments like, “Oh you must be b
by paulcole 3y ago
You’re pretty derisive about the idea of watching TV or settling for not doing hard things and sound like you’re fishing for compliments like, “Oh you must be better/smarter/whatever than an average person.”
I’m reminded of The Breakfast Club line, “So you’re a genius because you can’t make a lamp?”
So, what would actually make you happy and satisfied?
- hnthrowaway0315 3y agoI was about to answer "not really" to your first question but then I'm not so sure now. But definitely not fishing for compliments for this post. > what would actually make you happy and satisfied Figuring out(or not) difficult questions does make me happy I think. Or let's say I enjoy the focus but hate the eventual frustration.
- hnthrowaway0315 3y agoThought about the second question a bit more and list the stuffs that geniuely made me happy recently: Reading the book "The Soul of New Machine", led me to complete all labs of hardware part of nand2tetris except the final one (yeah the most important one). Watching the youtube channel "outdoor boys" makes me really happy and I went back to it from time to time.
- PaulHoule 3y ago"Soul of a New Machine" is such a funny book looking back because people were really impressed with it at the time, and it's a good book, but the "New Machine" that it was about went nowhere at all in the marketplace. In fact, that whole style of minicomputer development went extinct in the next few years. (I remember people being so excited about the Digital VAX, my high school got one to replace our awful PDP-8, pretty soon though people were boasting that their 386 machine was x faster than a VAX 11/780, and that was the last you heard of the VAX)