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Better to build a garage, plant a row of trees, or steward a community organization. Something that you can show your kids and be proud of. Open source softwa
by aaronax 3y ago
Better to build a garage, plant a row of trees, or steward a community organization. Something that you can show your kids and be proud of. Open source software work even.
Some entertainment being necessary, I feel the vast majority of people do it too much.
- 10xDev 3y ago>Some entertainment being necessary, I feel the vast majority of people do it too much. Certainly but what I really wanted to highlight was passive entertainment versus non-passive entertainment where gaming has shown to potentially have cognitive benefits [0]. Though I highly doubt all games are equal when it comes to this and I'm sure some are even destructive in how they abuse people's reward systems. Games like Turing Complete can even teach about how computers work from a transistor level. [0] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/video-gaming-may-be-associated-better-cognitive-performance-children https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/video-gaming-m...