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Ask HN: How can we care more about fewer things?

2•robalni•39m ago
There is a lot of stuff available on the internet. Just look at HN; link after link, every day more links. Other social medias are probably even worse.

I feel like this has a disabling effect. I mean, when there is always more stuff on the internet to find, why should I focus on the things I already have? Things feel less important when there are so many of them. It feels like everyone just keeps looking for more all the time. But do we really need more? I don't think so.

How can we pick some half-bad thing and just stick to it and make it better, as if there were no other things in the world?

Comments

baxtr•28m ago
I posted this a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990399

Maybe it helps you as well.

Additionally I highly recommend the book "Indistractable" by Nir Eyal. Best book on living a distraction free life.

Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program (2010)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html
1•tosh•45s ago•0 comments

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1•speckx•1m ago•0 comments

A leaderboard of trading losses, including Situational Awareness

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2•merksittich•4m ago•0 comments

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2•rbanffy•4m ago•0 comments

Leading economies' borrowing costs highest since 2008

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Buy Your Friends Batteries

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A Vacuum of the Imagination

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Benchmark Driven Development

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Tetrachromacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
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Plastic Nightmare

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Sun Clock

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Germ Lisp (2024)

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Trusting-Trust Attack Against a Linux Distribution Through Binary Manipulation

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Pentagon order US universities to Cut Chinese or else

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Ask HN: What's the Best Agent Harness?

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Friction Is the Feature

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Beeswax

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What's an Orchestrator–and Why Does Software Need One? – O'Reilly

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Polar Signals Is Joining Dash0

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EFF Joins Calling on Governor to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act

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Gemini in Waymo

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