dorkwood

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   by dorkwood 9y ago

   This really made me anxious when I was younger. Someone would say to me “what do you even DO in your spare time?” and my first instinct would be to lie. These days I try to be as honest as possible. Mostly I still get raised eyebrows and we
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   by dorkwood 9y ago

   Yeah, I think you're right about it coming down to a definition of what identity is. When I talk about broadening my identity, I guess what I'm really talking about is exploring new interests and testing out new ideas. The thought
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   by dorkwood 9y ago

   I think we both agree that contentedness is the goal, but we disagree on how to get there. To you, it might seem like 'fending off attacks, real or imagined', is a waste of time, when the waiter could just snap his fingers and sud
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   by dorkwood 9y ago

   I agree that it would be more productive for the waiter to be able to detach his identity from his job. But to even be able to do that in the first place, he needs to have something else going on. He needs to be so sure of his identity that
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   by dorkwood 9y ago

   What is his suggestion, though, exactly? For a waiter to not consider 'being a waiter' as part of his identity? If we're talking about reality, that strikes me as a fairly unrealistic ask, especially if it's all the wait
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   by dorkwood 9y ago

   I'd argue for the opposite: growing your identity beyond a single thing. If someone sees themselves as a waiter and nothing else, they're more likely to feel injured by someone saying that a waiter is a dead-end job, because the m
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   by dorkwood 9y ago

   I've struggled with the opportunity cost of exercise, too. What I realised, though, was that I didn't really apply that same criteria to other things in my life. For example, I'd happily browse hacker news without worrying ab
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   by dorkwood 9y ago

   I think white space is often misunderstood. People tend to see it as a void that could be put to better use. We shouldn’t think of it as a void, though. We should think of it as a separator. It’s gestalt theory: objects that are close to ea
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   by dorkwood 9y ago

   A chess master can intuitively tell when mate is three moves away. They weren’t born with that intuition, though. They gained it over time.
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    by dorkwood 9y ago

    "Meditation is something artificially put on; it does not belong to the native activity of the mind. Upon what do the fowls of the air meditate? Upon what do the fish in the water meditate? They fly; they swim. Is not that enough?&quot
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    by dorkwood 9y ago

    The first tweet they link to is directed at the makers of 'Firewatch', which doesn't have any in-app purchases at all. http://www.firewatchgame.com/ If Firewatch isn't safe, I'm not sure anything is
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    by dorkwood 9y ago

    I'm not a manager, but the people I've worked with best over the years are the ones who have shared a bit of themselves at work. People who act 'professional' all the time aren't trustworthy to me. It's impossi
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    by dorkwood 9y ago

    'That Sugar Film' is incredibly dishonest. The guy claims he gained about 15kg over a one month period by substituting sugary foods into his diet while keeping his caloric intake the same. That's a massive claim which you&#x2
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    by dorkwood 9y ago

    I really dislike youtube's 'recommended videos' for exactly this reason. It will never show me anything interesting, because it thinks I only want to watch things that I've already watched.
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    by dorkwood 9y ago

    I had the opposite experience as a kid. I'd lose to my father in Scrabble over and over, but I'd continue to play against him anyway. I think I just enjoyed playing a game that was meant for adults. As I got older, I started to wi
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    by dorkwood 9y ago

    I used the 'notes' app on my 5s for about 6 months before I realised it was secretly sending everything I typed to my Gmail account. Why is this even a feature at all, let alone a default one? Why didn't my phone notify me th
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    by dorkwood 9y ago

    If I was only working to accumulate 'stuff', then I wouldn't work at all. Or at least I wouldn't work as many hours as I do. The sad fact is that if I stop working, I can only survive for maybe six months until I need to
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    by dorkwood 9y ago

    Codecademy is good for the absolute basics, but I found anything beyond that seriously lacking. I remember really hating the tutorial on 'How to use APIs with Javascript', for example. It basically told me exactly what to type in