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For me, these "Top X under Age X" articles always used to create these needless benchmarks and comparisons in my head, as if I had some expectations to live up
by kadabra9 13y ago
For me, these "Top X under Age X" articles always used to create these needless benchmarks and comparisons in my head, as if I had some expectations to live up to by a specific age. I'd read the "30 under 30" and think to myself, "Crap, I'll be thirty in a few years. I need to get on the ball".
On one hand, reading about all these people doing great things is both inspiring and motivational for the reader to get out there and make something happen. On the other hand, its easy to look at yourself perhaps a bit too critically when you compare yourself to the folks listed in these articles. Focus on your own projects, career, business, etc not about whether you get there by 25,35 or 40.
Back to the article... I've never met Gary, but have enjoyed his writing and he's always struck me as a class act. It's great to see him get some more recognition.
- moron4hire 13y agoJust quit interneting. I'm in the process of it. It's been making me happier and more productive.
- tunesmith 13y agoHow are you doing this? Where are you at in the process?
- moron4hire 13y agoI kind of had a personal epiphany of an analogy: eating empty calories makes you fat, so having empty "friendships" on something like Facebook makes you socially inept. So, I deleted half of my Facebook friends--anyone I haven't talked to directly in the last 6 months got axed. Some of those people were even extended family members. There is nothing my redneck cousins have to say that I need to be reading. I'd quit completely but it has lately served a significant purpose for coordinating meat-space socializing; apparently most people have forgotten how to email. I only check HN once a day, and I only open technical articles now. No more news site trawling, and no more politics. No more Facebook and Tumblr on the phone, only on a real computer. It's helped a lot.