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kulahanyesterday at 9:58 PM5 repliesview on HN

The extreme majority of people don’t have some secret massive project they want to do and are weirdly choosing not to. There’s only one way to interpret this.


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tonyarklesyesterday at 11:43 PM

Nope, they might just want to clock out from work at 5pm and go ride their bike until sunset without giving a single shit about anything but the fresh air. Or go home and walk their kid to the park. Or throw a ball around the yard with the dog.

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john_strinlaiyesterday at 10:29 PM

>There’s only one way to interpret this.

obviously not.

computablytoday at 12:25 AM

> There’s only one way to interpret this.

In any context, this is about as trivially false as any non-tautological statement can be.

bluefirebrandtoday at 2:25 AM

Most people's "secret massive project they want to work on" is their family

6510today at 1:07 AM

If everyone would be ready to jump in and help you with some revolutionary project you should really bother to figure out what that project is going to be.

They are not ready to help because normal life is designed to be absurdly complicated, time consuming, constraining and draining.

The irony is that the solution is for people to take up massive projects that address the many angles of needless complexity [again]