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0 pointsthaumasiotes3y ago0 comments

If his self-promotion is on topic when he posts it, as it was here, I don't really see what the issue is supposed to be.

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lelanthran3y ago· 2 in thread

> If his self-promotion is on topic when he posts it, as it was here, I don't really see what the issue is supposed to be.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about his promotion.

Look at almost every regular poster on HN - they all have more than one type of comment. GP has only one type of comment (his project).

I dunno if it is really healthy to obsess over only a single thing, especially (IIRC) GP made a HN post some time back about burnout.

mathgladiator3y ago

> I dunno if it is really healthy to obsess over only a single thing, especially (IIRC) GP made a HN post some time back about burnout.

The word is "focused", and the burnout I was speaking diluting my focus too much and stalling out which I foresaw (as this isn't my first rodeo).

I could talk more about the month long RV trip through the southwest where my wife and I saw the Grand Canyon? But, is that relevant? :shrug:

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee

lelanthran3y ago

It's funny you mentioned focus. Until recently I had a lot of trouble maintaining focus.

I just complained about it in a different thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905529

I still think it's healthy to have multiple interests that you engage others with, but I also accept that in some contexts focus can appear as obsession.

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