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There is of course some evidence that after a few months, lotos eating gets .. well .. boring And there have been posts here discussing the importance of exposing kids (young minds at least) to boredom to stimulate motivations.

There is also the memorial for Robert Falcon Scott: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

OTOH yea I get this. I could devour me some crap 'tec fiction and a drink by a shady tree.

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The article is textbook burnout, including the denials and “friends have it worse”. People need to take care of themselves and their families first, then worry about the rest of the world.

I don't think most people would sit around doing nothing for more than three months after quitting work. It's genuinely difficult to be bored for that long because you start to lower your threshold for what interests you. At some point you're going to start pencil sketching random trees or writing a shader in SPIR-V bytecode just for something to do.

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