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Not sure at all you actually read the piece. Your responses about having a job or inconvenience or expectation seem entirely unrelated. The text does not, for

by savolai 1mo ago

Not sure at all you actually read the piece. Your responses about having a job or inconvenience or expectation seem entirely unrelated. The text does not, for instance, encourage not having a job. It also does not encourage being nothing at all. Being nothing special is quite different. Recommended movie: perfect days https://youtu.be/wqUT9hQd1XM?is=v1x85FdKOK_zfu60 https://youtu.be/wqUT9hQd1XM?is=v1x85FdKOK_zfu60

phoghed 1mo ago
> Not sure at all you actually read the piece. On my HN!? Surprised pikachu
- orphereus 1mo ago
  Don't be patronising. I am pretty sure he has read the article because I agree with him, and I have read the article as well. Surprised pikachu :OOOO
  - phoghed 1mo ago
    You agree with him? Even the boomer coded armchair psychology? My comment isn’t even in the same realm of patronizing as that.
    - jumpkick 1mo ago
      How is this coded to baby boomer? Honest question; I want to understand the post-war generational perspective.
      - savolai 1mo ago
        Guessing, but i suppose he might be referring to the implied-as-given duty ethics tone of the parent post, that easily comes across as an obligation to be blindly guided externally by norms.
kulahan 1mo ago
> do nothing after work. why do you have to do something after work? do something because you feel like doing it, not because you feel like you have to. Escapism. You SHOULD feel like you have to do some stuff. Our bodies are always aiming to relax, because conserving calories is an extremely effective survival method. We are hardwired to do nothing, in order to escape the burden of instead doing something.
- toomanyrichies 1mo ago
  > You SHOULD feel like you have to do some stuff. Gregor: It would be nice to do something. Sam: We are doing something. We're sitting here, waiting. "Ronin", 1998
  - satvikpendem 1mo ago
    Sitting sometimes is good, sitting always is not.
    - deleted 1mo ago
      [deleted]
    - mvanbaak 1mo ago
      Not the OP, nor the quote from Ronin state that one should always sit
      - satvikpendem 1mo ago
        I do not mean literally sitting. The article encourages complacency (metaphorically sitting around all day) which I disagree with.
        toomanyrichies 1mo ago
        "All day" and "always" are your words, not mine, and not those of the article's author.
sharmajai 1mo ago
Thanks for the movie suggestion, looks very interesting, will check it out. Also, the Pixar movie Soul has a similar message.
- detourdog 1mo ago
  Another cultural reference to this idea is the song Heaven by Talking Heads. Nothing ever happens. Annoyed that npc is not defined in the post. Non-playing character.
  - Nition 1mo ago
    I feel it necessary to make a slight pedantic correction here, since we're officially defining it. It's Non-Player Character.
    - detourdog 1mo ago
      No problem I had no idea what an NPC is.
robotnikman 1mo ago
>Being nothing special is quite different. Related, I would also recommend the book "The courage to be disliked"
mindhash 1mo ago
I often ask myself if i can go to a small town and live an anonymous life. Its my scoring system for personal pride/ego. Does such an anonymous life stop me from inventing things or think about stuff deeply. I don't think so,..
- goosejuice 1mo ago
  If you want to live anonymously you wouldn't want to be in a small town.
  - blooalien 1mo ago
    > If you want to live anonymously you wouldn't want to be in a small town. Having grown up in a small town, I can confirm this. The smaller the town, the more it becomes true that almost everyone in town has either heard of you from a friend or relative, or knows you directly. :)
Atiscant 1mo ago
Just a second recommendation for this movie. It is very good. It encapsulates part of my favorite danish psalm which translated is something like “An average happy and productive life on earth”. There is some ambiguity in the message in the movie, and I do not think it recommend his life, but it a very interesting contrast to most peoples life
asimovDev 1mo ago
Perfect Days is an amazing film which I recommend everyone reading to check out, I am not sure it's on streaming but available for rent / purchase on whatever platform you use (I bought it on Apple TV). I was amused to recently learn that it was an ad for Tokyo Toilet[0] 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tokyo_Toilet#Film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tokyo_Toilet#Film
- savolai 1mo ago
  The link i posted is actually the full movie. yt-dlp?

by savolai 1mo ago

phoghed 1mo ago

> Not sure at all you actually read the piece. On my HN!? Surprised pikachu

orphereus 1mo ago
Don't be patronising. I am pretty sure he has read the article because I agree with him, and I have read the article as well. Surprised pikachu :OOOO
- phoghed 1mo ago
  You agree with him? Even the boomer coded armchair psychology? My comment isn’t even in the same realm of patronizing as that.
  - jumpkick 1mo ago
    How is this coded to baby boomer? Honest question; I want to understand the post-war generational perspective.
    - savolai 1mo ago
      Guessing, but i suppose he might be referring to the implied-as-given duty ethics tone of the parent post, that easily comes across as an obligation to be blindly guided externally by norms.

kulahan 1mo ago

> do nothing after work. why do you have to do something after work? do something because you feel like doing it, not because you feel like you have to. Escapism. You SHOULD feel like you have to do some stuff. Our bodies are always aiming to relax, because conserving calories is an extremely effective survival method. We are hardwired to do nothing, in order to escape the burden of instead doing something.

toomanyrichies 1mo ago
> You SHOULD feel like you have to do some stuff. Gregor: It would be nice to do something. Sam: We are doing something. We're sitting here, waiting. "Ronin", 1998
- satvikpendem 1mo ago
  Sitting sometimes is good, sitting always is not.
  - deleted 1mo ago
    [deleted]
  - mvanbaak 1mo ago
    Not the OP, nor the quote from Ronin state that one should always sit
    - satvikpendem 1mo ago
      I do not mean literally sitting. The article encourages complacency (metaphorically sitting around all day) which I disagree with.
      - toomanyrichies 1mo ago
        "All day" and "always" are your words, not mine, and not those of the article's author.

sharmajai 1mo ago

Thanks for the movie suggestion, looks very interesting, will check it out. Also, the Pixar movie Soul has a similar message.

detourdog 1mo ago
Another cultural reference to this idea is the song Heaven by Talking Heads. Nothing ever happens. Annoyed that npc is not defined in the post. Non-playing character.
- Nition 1mo ago
  I feel it necessary to make a slight pedantic correction here, since we're officially defining it. It's Non-Player Character.
  - detourdog 1mo ago
    No problem I had no idea what an NPC is.

robotnikman 1mo ago

>Being nothing special is quite different. Related, I would also recommend the book "The courage to be disliked"

mindhash 1mo ago

I often ask myself if i can go to a small town and live an anonymous life. Its my scoring system for personal pride/ego. Does such an anonymous life stop me from inventing things or think about stuff deeply. I don't think so,..

goosejuice 1mo ago
If you want to live anonymously you wouldn't want to be in a small town.
- blooalien 1mo ago
  > If you want to live anonymously you wouldn't want to be in a small town. Having grown up in a small town, I can confirm this. The smaller the town, the more it becomes true that almost everyone in town has either heard of you from a friend or relative, or knows you directly. :)

Atiscant 1mo ago

Just a second recommendation for this movie. It is very good. It encapsulates part of my favorite danish psalm which translated is something like “An average happy and productive life on earth”. There is some ambiguity in the message in the movie, and I do not think it recommend his life, but it a very interesting contrast to most peoples life

asimovDev 1mo ago

Perfect Days is an amazing film which I recommend everyone reading to check out, I am not sure it's on streaming but available for rent / purchase on whatever platform you use (I bought it on Apple TV). I was amused to recently learn that it was an ad for Tokyo Toilet[0] 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tokyo_Toilet#Film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tokyo_Toilet#Film

savolai 1mo ago
The link i posted is actually the full movie. yt-dlp?