Anyone who read that: How do you justify the life spend once you see the scroll bar turning that small?
Like rolling a dice on wasting 30 minutes, but maybe maybe it’ll be interesting or mildly amusing, best case.
There’s just no way that use of time could be worth the squeeze when your takehome is $500/hr. 8% of your waking day spent reading an article. Come on?
It's easy. I just remind myself that, in about 5 billion years, the Sun will have sufficiently run out of fuel to begin its transition to a Red Giant. At that point, all remnants of biologic life that ever lived on the crust of the earth will be incinerated and it won't have mattered whether anyone carefully conserved the precious time remaining in their lives or not. I have so thoroughly incorporated this understanding into my psyche that I can merely blink now and all of that context is immediately present to me.
Do you determine the worthiness of all your activities by how much money you could make in the time they took?
I read the full article and found it well worth the time. A somewhat sobering essay, prompting some self-reflection, while also being beautifully written. I appreciated the art displayed.
How can you put a price tag on something like that?
Weird flex about the income, but the answer is: You don't have to read the whole thing. You can just dip in and if the first 2, 5, 10 minutes hook you, you read the rest.
You could also skim, that's a practice that has really done a lot for me when it comes to not-so-information-dense literature that might still have worthwhile nuggets in it, like a good chunk of nonfiction.
After first page I guessed it's obvious where it goes and stopped reading. The discussion confirmed it.
If it was not obvious to anyone, then they needed to read it all perhaps. Not having any big feelings for people who do or don't anymore, I have been avoiding all kinds of cat turds most of my life, not bad decision but it's very lonely.
It actually doesn't go where you'd expect after the first page. The discussion confirms it because nearly everyone only read the first page, and mostly people are commenting on the article they think it is, rather than what it actually is.
Like rolling a dice on wasting 30 minutes, but maybe maybe it’ll be interesting or mildly amusing, best case.
There’s just no way that use of time could be worth the squeeze when your takehome is $500/hr. 8% of your waking day spent reading an article. Come on?