This deeply resonates, but I am also inherently biased towards seeking meaning and long-run impact. There are various western schools of thought that add up to

This deeply resonates, but I am also inherently biased towards seeking meaning and long-run impact. There are various western schools of thought that add up to the same thing, eg Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. Sometimes I see posts on HN and elsewhere that seem to be divorced from a "meaning"-full perspective. I don't mean someone who finds different meaning than I do, but someone who doesn't think meaning matters at all. Sometimes it comes out as "I don't understand why anyone would have kids when it's much easier to just get brunch" or "I don't understand why work that impacts people is more valuable than one that doesn't" etc. FWIW, I sometimes check those folks comment history and they don't seem to be particularly happy despite (or maybe because of) the fact that they removed all onus of meaning from themselves.