Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's my age. Mabye I'm not self-reflexive enough. Maybe I never give it enough of an actual, honest try. Maybe my life is more balanced than I think. But I've _never_ been able to identify with articles like this.
I often don't have enough hours in the day to even get what I want done. I _love_ software. I'd rather be coding than doing most other things. I code for my startup 10-12 hours a day, then go home and work on my OS. Or learning Haskell. Or thinking about writing a compiler. Or the "living imageboard" idea I've been tossing around. Or whatever. And I've been doing this for years. Through school, I was coding projects all day, rather than doing it in my startup. I've been coding over 2/3rds of my life at this point, and I don't really want to stop.
Now, I do have other interests, and I persue other things. It's entirely possible that I just feel like I'm on the computer as much as these authors say they are, and I'm really not. I usually have a female companion. I love mountain biking. I paint Warhammer armies. I'm involved in the local hackerspace. I'm just a busy dude. But I still need (close to) unlimited texting for Twitter. I still was all about Facebook when it first came out. I still have almost 300 feeds in my reader (which I only tend to skim, admittedly.) And yet I never feel like this.
I grew up on a farm. When I was younger, my computing resources were quite limited, so I did that. I played outside. I was in the boy scouts. But I've never really held the opinion that the "real world" is more important or of inherently better quality than the virtual one. I feel terrible when I _don't_ have my phone. Or when I can't check my email. Or when I haven't caught up on my reading for a few days.
I'm not sure. Maybe I'll feel differently in the future. Only time will tell, I guess.
I often don't have enough hours in the day to even get what I want done. I _love_ software. I'd rather be coding than doing most other things. I code for my startup 10-12 hours a day, then go home and work on my OS. Or learning Haskell. Or thinking about writing a compiler. Or the "living imageboard" idea I've been tossing around. Or whatever. And I've been doing this for years. Through school, I was coding projects all day, rather than doing it in my startup. I've been coding over 2/3rds of my life at this point, and I don't really want to stop.
Now, I do have other interests, and I persue other things. It's entirely possible that I just feel like I'm on the computer as much as these authors say they are, and I'm really not. I usually have a female companion. I love mountain biking. I paint Warhammer armies. I'm involved in the local hackerspace. I'm just a busy dude. But I still need (close to) unlimited texting for Twitter. I still was all about Facebook when it first came out. I still have almost 300 feeds in my reader (which I only tend to skim, admittedly.) And yet I never feel like this.
I grew up on a farm. When I was younger, my computing resources were quite limited, so I did that. I played outside. I was in the boy scouts. But I've never really held the opinion that the "real world" is more important or of inherently better quality than the virtual one. I feel terrible when I _don't_ have my phone. Or when I can't check my email. Or when I haven't caught up on my reading for a few days.
I'm not sure. Maybe I'll feel differently in the future. Only time will tell, I guess.