{"id":4121,"date":"2022-07-01T02:21:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T02:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2022-07-01T02:21:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T02:21:07","slug":"the-compound-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/07\/the-compound-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"The compound is real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201ctoday I smoked out of a glass pipe I made. I can\u2019t smoke out of my level 80 night elf druid.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nor can I combine my level 80 night elf druid with my Diamond IV rank in Halo to get a compounded return. Those two games and skills are isolated. But I can combine what I read in John Dalton\u2019s A New System of Chemical Philosophy with glass blowing to make interesting things that bring me joy (I.e. replicating experiments of John\u2019s at home with purpose built glassware)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s not just production for productions sake, or production for the sake of society. It\u2019s increasing my capacity to produce for myself. I feel like I\u2019ve grown in a way that I can build on tomorrow after a session of practicing this class of hobby.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Maybe the distinction truly is arbitrary &#8211; but something about this path feels significantly more fulfilling the further down it I go vs. the literal years I spent in virtual worlds. In the virtual worlds the potential felt roughly constant while these hobbies feel like they have an ever expanding horizon of potential.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well said (sorry, I often only copy the comment but those are mostly from HN).<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking of a friend who told me <em>\u201cwell, my brother and his son have been playing Call of Duty for a decade, and there\u2019s nothing else in their lives\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oof.<\/p>\n<p>As great as virtual worlds are, they never compound. But everything in life does. Balance that I learned on my skateboard, is balance I use when standing on a thin beam, fixing a roof. Spices that I enjoy with a take-out meal, can be retrieved and bought at the grocery store. You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>The compounding effect is what makes life so interesting, growing, spinning. Otherwise, everything just feels flat and boring quite quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to talk about general VS special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201ctoday I smoked out of a glass pipe I made. I can\u2019t smoke out of my level 80 night elf druid. Nor can I combine my level 80 night elf druid with my Diamond IV rank in Halo to get a compounded return. Those two games and skills are isolated. But I can combine what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}