Q&A: Techniques for dealing with lack of motivation, malaise, depression
Why Hacker News recommends it
Mostly shared as a more reliable YouTube mirror, and cited as a related talk on motivation; one commenter criticizes Blow's comments on impostor syndrome.
What it is
The question-and-answer session that followed Jonathan Blow's talk on dealing with lack of motivation, malaise and depression. It is hosted on YouTube as a mirror of a Twitch recording.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2017 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Cites jsheard · 2017-10 · on “Techniques for dealing with lack of motivation, malaise, depression [video]”
Here's the YouTube mirror, since Twitch VODs often have janky buffering problems in my experience: [LINK] + [this video]
Cites modernerd · 2018-09 · on “Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sensation Stardew Valley”
> in four decades of living on this planet I don't think I've ever come across anything that fits that bill. Keep looking! But also, it's possible at 40+ that you may have already found it. Perhaps you've not given that thing the chance it needed for you to fall in love with it — the days and weeks of exploration and the obsessive iteration mentioned in the GQ article that it takes to grok something and absorb it until it feels like it's yours . I'm almost your age and now rewinding my career path. I kept chasing different tech career paths hoping to find something that “fit the bill”, which only showed me that nothing was as interesting to me than what I started my career doing (game design
Critical phist_mcgee · 2022-08 · on “Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones”
A bit of a tangent, but I lost quite a bit of respect for Jonathon Blow when he made comments about impostor syndrome: [this video]