Never read hacker news before dinner

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by calvin • 14 years ago

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earbitscom• 14 years ago

Yeah, a few weeks ago I felt particularly stressed and depressed. I stopped reading TechCrunch and HackerNews for several days, and found myself feeling significantly better.

Then I got back to doing both but noticed something interesting. It wasn't usually the articles making me stressed and depressed, it was the comments. The comments on technology news these days generally sounds like they're coming from people I would never have a second conversation with. They're rude, negative, spiteful, discouraging, and depressing.

It's a very hard habit to break, reading the comments, and it's unfortunate because I used to find great tidbits of information in the comments that made them very useful and worthwhile. However, skimming past dozens of people talking shit and criticizing the do-ers just to get to the possible good information has proven not worthwhile.

I need to be more disciplined about avoiding this negativity.

Never read hacker news before dinner

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