Been thinking all day about why LW does not spark joy anymore for me. I left about 2 years ago to seek a meaningful social life elsewhere, but honestly what I found was… mostly a barren wasteland. Now, with enough slack to come back to LW with a lot of energy, I simply find that my heart is not in it. Why?
One problem is, well I’ve essentially settled for the Netherlands as my base, but no matter how much I tried with the meetups, I never quite managed to breathe life into the local LW community. I mean I did get a regular attendance of 15 people after 2 years of consistent meetups, but when I came back after a 6 month hiatus in Blackpool it was all gone, and I had to start over. I haven’t been motivated to organise meetups ever since.
Just interact online? Not meaningful. I’ve invested way too many skill/meaning points into charisma (body language being a big part of that) to throw all that away. Not even covid was reason enough for me to stop seeing people physically even temporarily.
I have some other gripes with LW, and the core cause of most of those is that rationalists tend to be more neurotic than average, while I’m less neurotic, but c’mon, I’m not going to find a community that matches my personality even better than LW, and if I do it’s probably even more sparsely represented in Amsterdam
Been thinking all day about why LW does not spark joy anymore for me. I left about 2 years ago to seek a meaningful social life elsewhere, but honestly what I found was… mostly a barren wasteland. Now, with enough slack to come back to LW with a lot of energy, I simply find that my heart is not in it. Why?
One problem is, well I’ve essentially settled for the Netherlands as my base, but no matter how much I tried with the meetups, I never quite managed to breathe life into the local LW community. I mean I did get a regular attendance of 15 people after 2 years of consistent meetups, but when I came back after a 6 month hiatus in Blackpool it was all gone, and I had to start over. I haven’t been motivated to organise meetups ever since.
Just interact online? Not meaningful. I’ve invested way too many skill/meaning points into charisma (body language being a big part of that) to throw all that away. Not even covid was reason enough for me to stop seeing people physically even temporarily.
I have some other gripes with LW, and the core cause of most of those is that rationalists tend to be more neurotic than average, while I’m less neurotic, but c’mon, I’m not going to find a community that matches my personality even better than LW, and if I do it’s probably even more sparsely represented in Amsterdam
I’m basically out of ideas. Help is welcome