In the 6 months before I stopped believing in God I became extremely religious. Same sort of thing happened with my political beliefs
So that I could fund my music career, I was learning linear algebra and Python to get a better job. A few months into it I realized I wasn’t working on music at all and may have been using programming and math as a pernicious procrastination mechanism. Now I’m still learning, but instead of letting it take my music time, I let it take my Netflix time.
Reading Infinite Jest taught me that I don’t need to get caught up in a game of irony/sarcasm, signalling and counter-signalling, and pretending not to care. I don’t need to signal intelligence though negativity or complexity for complexity’s sake. Reading that book cleared out a lot of toxicity in me
A few resets of differing magnitudes:
In the 6 months before I stopped believing in God I became extremely religious. Same sort of thing happened with my political beliefs
So that I could fund my music career, I was learning linear algebra and Python to get a better job. A few months into it I realized I wasn’t working on music at all and may have been using programming and math as a pernicious procrastination mechanism. Now I’m still learning, but instead of letting it take my music time, I let it take my Netflix time.
Reading Infinite Jest taught me that I don’t need to get caught up in a game of irony/sarcasm, signalling and counter-signalling, and pretending not to care. I don’t need to signal intelligence though negativity or complexity for complexity’s sake. Reading that book cleared out a lot of toxicity in me