> that’s why I spend most of my free time in the internet
A friendly tip, spend less time "on the internet" and more time deep-diving into a narrow topic that interests you, do R&D, create. I find that many who spend much time "on the internet" simply consume and never create.
Einstein would perhaps have achieved nothing if he had the Internet, he was too curious, would perhaps have wasted all his time jumping from rabbit hole to rabbit hole. Unless, he chose to focus on his research, and kept web browsing to a minimum.
The Internet should be used more like a research tool than a time-killing device. It doesn't matter the topic of the articles you read, no matter the complexity and technical depth of the information you consume if you never do anything with it. If it never amounts to anything.
Even writing this comment, I can feel the waste of time it is, or any other comment. I recognize it for what it is, and try to spend very little time on such activities.
Checking my recent comment history, I can see that fortunately I seem to have it under control, with two weeks time between my days of commenting.
A good tip, and I try hard to find a balance. I raise this question once in a while to myself. But some areas like modern physics or biology or medicine are inaccessible to me to create because I’m not smart enough in “calculate” part of it. Instead I put free time efforts in my main area, human-oriented programming, hoping something meaningful will come out. Not even for money in there.
Even writing this comment, I can feel the waste of time it is, or any other comment
Seeing people now who got drunk and went walk instead of reading and having on-topic conversations “back then”, I don’t think you are wasting your time. I prefer not to be them, even if it would make me happier. Thanks for your time!
> Even writing this comment, I can feel the waste of time it is
Commenting somewhere like HN may feel like a time waste...but I like to believe many of us are drawn to it because we can somehow feel it's not. Your comment here connected with me enough that several thoughts crystalized in my mind. I could appreciate that that may not be super important or rewarding to you, but it IS valuable to me.
Additionally, there is a long tail during which an internet comment can become useful -- as long as the comment is up. It's hard to say for any given comment when it will last provide value for someone.
In a world of intellectual loneliness that could approach starvation, a given comment may be a drop of water in the desert to someone very important and we'd never know.
Any advice for someone whose primary intellectual interest is how people socialize online? Because damn it's hard not to get pulled into the communities I like observing...
A friendly tip, spend less time "on the internet" and more time deep-diving into a narrow topic that interests you, do R&D, create. I find that many who spend much time "on the internet" simply consume and never create.
Einstein would perhaps have achieved nothing if he had the Internet, he was too curious, would perhaps have wasted all his time jumping from rabbit hole to rabbit hole. Unless, he chose to focus on his research, and kept web browsing to a minimum.
The Internet should be used more like a research tool than a time-killing device. It doesn't matter the topic of the articles you read, no matter the complexity and technical depth of the information you consume if you never do anything with it. If it never amounts to anything.
Even writing this comment, I can feel the waste of time it is, or any other comment. I recognize it for what it is, and try to spend very little time on such activities.
Checking my recent comment history, I can see that fortunately I seem to have it under control, with two weeks time between my days of commenting.