The article kind of comes off as spammy/scammy and I fully expected to reach a point where the author wanted to sell me a course for $99 on how to achieve whatever it was he was hawking.
I have a propensity for staring at points in space and daydreaming/visualizing to the point where it thoroughly annoys my wife. Right now I am rotating a small grey elephant wearing blue boots and a red blanket with gold edging on the blanket in my mind's eye whilst staring at the HN web page and there is not a single thing anyone can do to stop me from doing it. It's also free which no doubt irks a number of CEOs and founders who have yet to figure out how to monetize it.
I have a family member who describes themselves as "visual primary" but during conversations of what this means woefully admits that they need to "see things" to know what they look like, cannot visualize rotating an elephant nor picture what the underside of a soup bowl might look like if they had never looked under that particular soup bowl but had looked under many other soup bowls throughout their life. I liken the ability to visualize as my first encounter with NeRF "Yes, it's like that! Seeing things from other angles even though you'd never seen that particular angle."
The human mind, it is quirky to say the least. Quirky in that I can now rest easy because the amount of HN karma I have accumulated has taken on a pleasant shade rather than the jarring visual noise it previously was when it was below 2000.
I prefer to self host vs running my brain in the cloud. After all, there is no cloud, it's just someone else's brain.
Eventually, someone on HN, in a few decades, will admonish with the same fervour at the proposal of self-hosting their dreams as they do when someone proposes running their own email server.
I have a propensity for staring at points in space and daydreaming/visualizing to the point where it thoroughly annoys my wife. Right now I am rotating a small grey elephant wearing blue boots and a red blanket with gold edging on the blanket in my mind's eye whilst staring at the HN web page and there is not a single thing anyone can do to stop me from doing it. It's also free which no doubt irks a number of CEOs and founders who have yet to figure out how to monetize it.
I have a family member who describes themselves as "visual primary" but during conversations of what this means woefully admits that they need to "see things" to know what they look like, cannot visualize rotating an elephant nor picture what the underside of a soup bowl might look like if they had never looked under that particular soup bowl but had looked under many other soup bowls throughout their life. I liken the ability to visualize as my first encounter with NeRF "Yes, it's like that! Seeing things from other angles even though you'd never seen that particular angle."
The human mind, it is quirky to say the least. Quirky in that I can now rest easy because the amount of HN karma I have accumulated has taken on a pleasant shade rather than the jarring visual noise it previously was when it was below 2000.