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370 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 May \ on: Bubbles to live in mostly_harmless

My wife recently got a mechanical keyboard and she's basically been typing non-stop since. These things make a big difference. At the same time, people can get lost in trying to find the things that will make them happy, instead of focusing on the things that do.

I'm glad you've made this discovery and I think it's a worthwhile pursuit. It's not any sort of rejection of reality, either. There's too much reality to be taking it all in anyway, so you have to discriminate between which aspects you're getting exposure to. Why shouldn't that discrimination be aligned with your values? What other criteria should take precedence?

85 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 26 May

I love mechanical keyboards, too. Its really cool because you can customize them, and buy keycaps and the springs. Makes for interesting builds that you can actually use.

75 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryotosensei 26 May

Glad that SN is an integral part of my reality hahaha

185 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 May

SN has largely become my social media bubble. Just like Elvis articulates in the post, this environment makes me happy in a way other platforms don't. I also find the other people on here more grounded in reality than is normal elsewhere.

111 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury OP 26 May

this environment makes me happy in a way other platforms don't.

I know you've mentioned this in passing before; have you written on it in a focused way in a post that I'm forgetting?

I'm thinking a lot about SN and its specialness and appreciate other takes on the topic.

179 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 May

I'm not sure. It's probably just sprinkled throughout my various posts and comments. Maybe I should meditate on it a bit.

Now would be a good time, because I just collected a bunch of other people's thoughts about why they like Stacker News so much #548695, so that I could lure Minds users over.

In my Minds ad, I say that SN is what Minds aspires to be.

262 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury OP 26 May

At the same time, people can get lost in trying to find the things that will make them happy, instead of focusing on the things that do.

Argh, yes. That's the meta lesson, I think: attribute this variance properly. Put your efforts into the places where they have leverage.

There's too much reality to be taking it all in anyway, so you have to discriminate between which aspects you're getting exposure to. Why shouldn't that discrimination be aligned with your values?

Succinctly put.

What other criteria should take precedence?

My change of heart is that nothing else should have precedence. Still trying to figure out how best to include the rest, though.

I spent some time in Venezuela for a stretch. Caracas was a hellscape, just as you often hear about, but I had a friend who had a little place in a country town, nestled partway up a mountain, that was a tiny paradise in the midst of it -- the physical version of the more expansive topic that I wrote about here. It was such a jewel. I keep thinking that that is what I want for myself.

And yet, even if you don't believe in the Devil, the Devil believes in you. Figuring out my relationship with the Devil is an equal part of it.

106 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 May

Still trying to figure out how best to include the rest

My approach to this is letting the interests of people I enjoy interacting with steer the ship a little bit. I can step a bit outside of my direct interests, for the sake of enhancing a relationship (and potentially expanding my horizons while I'm at it).

I remember @k00b making a really interesting point about what was lost when we gave up newspapers, though. Our environments are so curated now that we don't have easy avenues for random (and shared) information exposure.