What interesting stuff are you browsing recently?
For instance, there's a common and oft-repeated notion that food delivery apps are screwing over drivers, not just restaurants. So I've been reading the Couriersofreddit sub to get the story from the horses' mouths:
https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/
It turns you can make quite a bit driving for GH/UE (well in some geographies), so much so that a $15/hr job with benefits is unattractive.
https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/comments/gkmuc4/wo...
I want to work towards a just world, but I believe the first step is to really understand the system of incentives and what is actually happening on the ground, as opposed to simply taking in oversimplified media narratives.
Subreddits are watering holes for folks in the field. I think their unvarnished perspectives are interesting data points (albeit skewed towards a Reddit-centric demographic).
Congratulations, friend. You have arrived at a kind of limbo that in all likelihood you will end up at again in the future. I congratulate you, because you have arrived at the point where you have "synced" -- that is to say, you have processed material from your desired channels from the post to the present moment such that this feeling you are experiencing, an almost emptiness or that of negative space, encapsulates and closes in upon the definition of "present moment".
Give it a day, and new content will arrive in your familiar channels. You'll consume it, and return to this familiar, interstitial area.
Perhaps now is as good a time as any to consider directionality. Is it a good time to go back on material you've previously processed and re-process it for refinement? It will only deepen your intuition and the firmness of your intellectual grip. Is it time for you to seek out a new channel, as you're doing here? That too, is a new adventure. Is it maybe time to begin forming your own channel? So too could that be a new adventure.
And if none of those sound appealing? Well, perhaps that is even more appealing. Perhaps you, like many other folks, have finally come to that point where you ask "what's next?" to a deafeningly loud internal silence. This is good. This is where the interesting stuff happens.
If I can give you a word of advice -- don't feel so inclined to have to come up with an answer immediately. It's possible that you may need to keep your internal eyes and ears open for when the answer finds /you/.
And to answer your question in a more literal manner -- take a look at what you've liked, commented on, and favorited on Hacker News. You can probably identify some areas that you tend to enjoy exploring. Try and find folks/communal spaces on Twitter and Reddit (maybe YouTube too, if possible) that also explore those areas. From there, you can branch out, whether it's talking directly with those folks to get a sense of what they think is interesting that you might not know about (this is the best way, IMO) or following new paths out further.
But, I will stress: try and soak in the feeling and fully absorb it. To run away from it could be to waste it, and it's something that you may one day look back upon as more rare and valuable than it originally felt.
https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/many-benefits-hugelk...
GTC 2020 Part 2 was pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeScfkCm3b4
Mostly I'm in a rut as well
[1] https://community.mix.com/blog/2019/2/27/introducing-the-mix...
- number systems. Base 12 would be nice.
- systems of measurement. Adjusting the SI base unit to be even powers of Plank Units seems ideal.
- calendar systems. 12 month years, 5 week months, 6 day weeks (with an extra 5 or 6 day week at the end of the year) seems nice.
- time system. A new time system based off 12. Sub-units are 2 hours, 10 minutes, 50 seconds, 4.16 seconds, and .3472 seconds. Time can be a normal number then like A63.B8
- languages. Lojban seems awesome!
- coding. Replacing C and C++ with D and Rust, and Python/R/Matlab with Julia.
- taxes. Land value taxes really do seem awesome.
Probably over half this has been via Wikipedia.
After that and Hacker News, I suggest setting up a decentralized media account such as Scuttlebutt, Beaker Browser, or Mastodon.
Trying to keep it funny, edgy, and informative.
If anyone knows of a place to find interesting articles on High frequency and algorithmic trading, let me know!
It's a platform for longform online discussions between two or more people. You can read other people's or make your own.
Also, historically how drugs went through clinical trials, experimentation, production etc. The anti-HIV drug AZT is well documented, and there's a great article here [2] by TIME if you're interested.
[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-gilead-remdesivir-co...
So, for me, it is;
- (Desktop): HackerNews, Twitter, Email mostly
- (Mobile): Photography / Videography. Text mostly. Phones calls are rare.
If you want to fill in, try starting a reading habit or even better, writing. I've 2 stickies right in front of me on the wall just above the monitor that says "Read anything today?" and "Wrote anything today?" I'm failing on the writing part and struggling to make it happen.
No commenting, but kinda like a HNs for the Arts:
https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/data/currencies/gbp-pairs/...
1 min, 30 min, 1 day, candles, kagi, baseline, heikin ashi, zoom in, zoom out, both axes.
It's a site for collaborative fiction through writing prompts, if you like reading or writing: https://www.storylocks.com
Stuff like: https://helpatmyhome.com/best-kettlebells/
It’s good to be as well informed as possible on what’s going on in the world but there’s diminishing returns after a hour or so of news in a day.
Right now it's Middlemarch.
Your unit tests are running too slowly, otherwise you wouldn't be checking so frequently.
Oh, wait. That's me.
Didn't even know it existed a month ago. It's a fascinating window into a very popular hobby.
There's some crossover with HN, but plenty that you won't have seen.
Less obligatory plug for gwern's subreddit, which is great: https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/
It would also obviate the need to ask a question like this. We could just search through user histories and discover new things that way.
Also Arts And Letters Daily
Naked Capitalism daily linkdumps (morning + water cooler at 2pm) have plenty of auxiliary reading material in them
Slate Star Codex comment section is always popping off, some discussions are more interesting than others depending on what you're into
Similar to HN but contains non-tech stuff.