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Life is too short to make simple things more complicated.
by SoftTalker 4mo ago
Life is too short to make simple things more complicated.
- amelius 4mo agoYou should be on a beach without internet connection then.
- sailfast 4mo agoThat requires money. (GOTO makeMoney)
- varenc 4mo agoYou could also say life is too short to waste time retying inferior drawstrings. If learning the knot takes 5 minutes, it seems like it could easily save you time overall.
- someguyiguess 4mo agoIf you're spending that much time tying drawstrings I think you've got bigger problems.
- tzs 4mo agoIf it takes 5 minutes to learn, and if you have 30 more years of needing to tie drawstrings, and you need to tie on average one drawstring per week, you will come out ahead if it saves you 0.19 seconds tying or retying per drawstring.
- ____tom____ 4mo agoAh, but are you remembering to discount the future time saving, to get the net present value of the time savings?
- giardini 4mo agoMaybe he's a "back-door man"!
- m463 4mo agoI was looking for the comic and found this: https://xkcd.com/1205/ https://xkcd.com/1205/ (I swear there was a better one)
- microbiont 4mo agoThis one perhaps? https://xkcd.com/1319/ https://xkcd.com/1319/
- beAbU 4mo agoI've been tying shorts for more than 35 years. I can do it with my eyes closed. I can do it while running, or while swimming. I don't need to look down, finagle an end into an ampersand and whatnot. I don't have to worry about grabbing the right loop+end combo to increase or decrease tightness. I just undo the knot, and redo it according to preference. I'd argue I'm just about as fast adjusting my shorts than this guy in the video.
- sfdlkj3jk342a 4mo agoWhy not just buy clothes that fit properly? I haven't tied a drawstring or used a belt in maybe 15 years, when I realized it was worth finding clothes that fit well. They're more comfortable and look better.
- ricardobayes 4mo agoIt somehow reminded me of this: (How to open a door - Finnish instructional video from 1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0xPUmW38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0xPUmW38
- n1b0m 4mo agoThat tutorial has opened up many doors for me
- fifilura 4mo agoYou will never know if it was his moustache, his clothes or the way he enters a room that made him so successful with women.
- altairprime 4mo agoI’ve spent decades learning to enter and exit doors more efficiently for motivated to apply the principle of martial arts ‘flowing movements’ to everything and found this video charming and accurate. In a climate with -20C temps outdoors every wall second you have a door open translates to fractions of a firewood heating log, so teaching good door etiquette conserves energy waste. But even where it’s not an environmental extreme, getting better at your daily movements is a worthwhile investment. At one point I had it down to 29 ‘moves’ to go from my front door to in car, belted and started, in one continuous series of movements. Growing old gracefully doesn’t just mean being nice to people, after all :) I took the time one year to learn a bunch of knot work and my ability to tie my shoes so they lay nicely has improved, even if I’m just using the same knot. But I also only tie my shoes once and never again, courtesy of elastic laces, so perhaps this specific tutorial isn’t as helpful for me as others. Still worth learning a knot once, tho though!
- Melatonic 4mo agoAlso think this is an underrated way to live. And it doesnt just have to be for efficiency sake. Taking even some beginner dance classes is helpful. I like to call it "moving with intention" in my head. Proactive movement rather than Reactive. Smooth is fast and fast is good - but there's nothing wrong with smooth and slow as well!
- grimgrin 4mo agoI got through an entire day yesterday in massively oversized gym shorts, by simply forming a standard loop, and wrapping it _twice_. That extra friction (the second wrap) has worked for years on shoes, boots, and, very large shorts I will not be learning a fancy knot because I have no need
- imglorp 4mo agoThe difference is the Ian Loop is adjustable.
- jasondigitized 4mo agoWhat needs adjusting? My waist size is not dynamic.
- grimgrin 4mo agothey're right, we're wrong. look, if you got XXXL shorts on a medium waist and tie an _excellent_ standard knot, and you are very active for a while? those shorts are gonna loosen up for sure this knot rules, i'm glad i went back and tried it :)
- Melatonic 4mo agoYou will....knot ?
- newtwentysix 4mo agoTotally absolutely agree with this. The second wrap or second turn totally solved my problem of slipping knots in shorts and shoes. Game over. Chapter closed for me.
- VBprogrammer 4mo agoKnots in general are a harmless and occasionally useful pasttime for many people. In fact I have a length of rope under my desk I will occasionally pick up and practice a few useful knots in just to keep them in my muscle memory. It's similar in many ways to people who solve rubix cubes or play with fidget spinners.
- Austiiiiii 4mo agoAnd you never know when they'll come in handy! As a negative proof, I recently found myself trying desperately to remember how to tie a bowline hitch to stake down some garden stakes, and something in the "out of the hole, around the tree, back into the hole" was just not happening for me. Ended up just quadruple knotting and praying.
- VBprogrammer 4mo agoThe snap method of tying a bowline is my favourite. In nice rope it looks really fancy and can be done mostly from muscle memory (except remembering to pass the free end through from the backside to avoid a shameful cowboy bowline). I found myself in a similar situation taking my kids crab fishing. We were quite high above the water so I was trying to tie the thin string on the net to the bucket so we could lower it into the water to fill it. After trying to think of the fancy way of doing it I just went with doubling up the string and tying a round turn and two half hitches, an embarrassingly simple knot which has most of the advantages of anything more complex.
- tbossanova 4mo agoIf you can’t tie a knot, tie a lot
- imglorp 4mo agoThe Ashley Book of Knots has 3857 numbered entries. Each is suited to specific requirements. Some are just fun or decorative. It can be a hobby to learn more. Domain people might have a dozen knots to get their job done. I just took a swift water rescue class; we got by with maybe five total for our situation. Tying shorts? Maybe two or three are best suited.
- jjulius 4mo agoMin-max all the things! Overengineer everything! /s
- rpdillon 4mo agoEh, knots are a source of joy.
- elicash 4mo agoI think if you occasionally tie gym shorts and don't have needs around fit, this is correct. But if you're a nurse and wear scrubs all the time, then it might become worth spending time upfront perfecting it.
- proggy 4mo agoI don’t see how this is complicated, it’s simply a technique. The creator of the video has no stated agenda, and it’s on the viewer to decide whether or not they want to learn and apply this method. Lots of people find joy in solving the little things in life that would otherwise cause them frustration. One of the top comments on the video is a nurse saying they’d been tying their scrubs with bunny ears for 30 years and always had to keep adjusting them. Certainly it isn’t overly complicated for them.
- teeray 4mo agoThe more you know and practice with knots, the definition of “simple” shifts. I stopped using bungee cords in my car since I got really good at lashing stuff down with paracord.
- jasondigitized 4mo agoThis a hundred times. Smart by half.