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This is the problem with instagram. Influencers setting extremely high standards of life in luxury. How can a young girl keep up?

It’s so easy to see when it’s someone else. But us tech folk have our own demons. Yes, there are exceptional people, but there’s also millions of happy mediums that have hobbies and enjoy learning stuff that they find the time to do.

Hacker News is everything every tech person could possibly be interested in and more. Read a while, find the stuff you enjoy. The rest, let it pass. Don’t hold yourself to the HN influencer standard.

As a test, think of how many times you see the same persons blog on here detailing something extremely intricate and interesting. There’s a few regulars but most are one off or once a year posts.



What you say, makes sense.

But where I was, there was no clear boundary between my work and more work.

When I am done with my work, I am handed others' work. So, zero time to learn other things and grow. Or read books. Or anything, really.

So, I quit last week.




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