What do you hate not doing?

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by nreece • 17 years ago

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yan• 17 years ago

I hate seldom being able to do anything about hating not doing something I want to do.

willhf• 17 years ago

I hate not responding to comments which give me reason to hate the fact that english does not use s-expressions.

bkovitz2• 17 years ago

What's stopping you?

snitko• 17 years ago

I already have Derek's blog in my rss-reader (and I like it), so it seems a little weird and confusing that his posts reappear oh HN regularly and that often. I feel it somehow makes him less cool. Doesn't anyone feel this way too? Let's just all add his blog to our readers finally and not repost anything here.

calvin• 17 years ago

It's in my RSS reader and I follow him on Twitter, too.

The reason it's on HN is so we can discuss it -- it's hard to do that on his blog where the post already has 87 comments and are not threaded.

SwellJoe• 17 years ago

And comments on blogs, even good ones, are also generally afflicted with the dumb and just aren't worth wading through to find the handful of people who hate to look like gibbering idiots (and have the intelligence to avoid it).

njharman2• 17 years ago

"What makes you feel icky, irritated, annoyed or off-track if you don't do it enough?"

Showering. I'm not being flippant.

In general, "dealing with life". I am prone to depression, the clinical kind, the kind that causes you to stay in bed or browse web aimlessly all weekend. The kind that makes it seemingly impossible to do the things that need doing, like finishing projects, calling friends, or taking a shower.

I wonder if the many other prone to depression people have similar reaction as I to "life-hack", "feel-good", "aphoristic" blogs/articles/people like this one. The reaction you might imagine a poor person has listening to a top 1%er ponder "which of my seven houses do I not hate spending the summer in".

PieSquared• 17 years ago

> I wonder if the many other prone to depression people have similar reaction as I to "life-hack", "feel-good", "aphoristic" blogs/articles/people like this one.

Erm, I found that minorly confusing as to what you meant. Could you elaborate?

californiaguy• 17 years ago

Losers hate winners, no matter the context.

jodrellblank• 17 years ago

He isn't driven to do anything, and is (somewhat) envious of someone who has a choice of things they are driven to do.

( I interpret his statement in light of my current state - in bed browsing the web aimlessly at 10am despite being on holiday in a hotel in a foreign city )

( Incidentally, I saw Jodrell Bank from the plane on the way here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodrell_Bank_Observatory )

njharman2• 17 years ago

Yeah, I've spent 20min trying think of a way to elaborate without much luck...

People rarely view things from any perspective other than their own. It annoys me.

jodrellblank isn't correct btw. I'm not envious. I'm very cognizant and thankful for everything. Cause despite how shitty and hard I may think my life is I know it's comparatively "charmed". People are starving to DEATH in refugee camps cause some fuckheads were trying to genocide them. I can't even comprehend there being so little food that people die from lack.

pbhj• 17 years ago

Um, sex!? Or was that to obvious.

bkovitz2• 17 years ago

What a great exercise!

It can be hard to think of what you really care about: starting that way often leads to trying to deduce what you "should" care about. What you hate, though, is easily accessible. Negative emotions are right in your face, and they lead straight to clarity about what you deeply desire, if you follow the emotional thread for two hops or so.

spudlyo• 17 years ago

I hate not reading stories on HN that are insightful, informative, or thought provoking.

10ren• 17 years ago

I hate not solving problems. It's that post-modern trope where the super hero realizes he needs the bad guys for his identity.

I also hate not coding.

What do you hate not doing?

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