They're wasted potential. Burnout isn't necessarily from overwork, it comes from pouring your heart and soul into things that you never get the satisfaction of seeing completed.
Reminds me of a quote (paraphrasing), "a vector without a force is not a useful vector". I thought it was by Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD team lead), but not finding it in a search.
The opposite makes sense too, a vector with magnitude but no direction isn't super useful on its own either.
> Toulouse noted that Poincaré kept very regular hours. He did his hardest thinking between 10 a.m. and noon, and again between 5 and 7 in the afternoon. The 19th century’s most towering mathematical genius worked just enough to get his mind around a problem—about four hours a day.
The two 2-hour hard thinking hours chart was the most useful takeaway for me.
I wonder if social media could actually be a really positive push for the “small stakes big thinkers” type, in some cases.
There’s loads of great content on YouTube for example, with channels doing genuine and interesting science and experimentation in public. Channels like Breaking Taps, Journey to the Microcosmos, The Thought Emporium, all come to mind, for me. I’m sure you can think of others.
More hackernews-coded, perhaps, there’s also lots of cool small blogs positing some pretty neat ideas… although, sites like YouTube might arguably provide easier access to finance for sustaining these people!
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“Some think, Some do, Some both, But few”.
Got that from a lecturer.
The opposite makes sense too, a vector with magnitude but no direction isn't super useful on its own either.
The two 2-hour hard thinking hours chart was the most useful takeaway for me.
There’s loads of great content on YouTube for example, with channels doing genuine and interesting science and experimentation in public. Channels like Breaking Taps, Journey to the Microcosmos, The Thought Emporium, all come to mind, for me. I’m sure you can think of others.
More hackernews-coded, perhaps, there’s also lots of cool small blogs positing some pretty neat ideas… although, sites like YouTube might arguably provide easier access to finance for sustaining these people!
Then progress exploded! Quality of life massively expanded.
Now: a slowdown. Stuff still gets made yet we feel disenchanted.
It never stopped being a good time to planting more idea-seeds.
Tenure sounds a lot like basic income. Maybe it’s a coincidence.
Thank you for this soundbite. I'm going to use it.
(In favor of UBI.)
What works for me on iOS is to first scroll down until the "subscribe" splash, close it, and then reject the cookies.
Sometimes I still need to click some combination of "only necessary" and "reject" a few more times
But then they couldn’t sell my data.