[jdietrich]

How about we all just chill the fuck out?

Stop worrying about whether you've left it too late to be the next Zuckerberg. Stop worrying about whether you've sacrificed your future happiness on the temple of Mammon. Just live your damned life, one day at a time. If you think that everything is going fine, you're probably right; If you think that things are all fucked up, you're also probably right.

Stop letting douchebags with blogs give you life advice. They don't know you, they don't know your life, they probably don't know much of anything. For all their bravado, they're working from a sample size of one, just like everyone else.

I'm sick of all these lifestyle posts on HN that are full of absolutism and false certitude. I'm sick of this attitude that your life is a dismal failure if it isn't micro-managed down to the last millisecond. I'm sick of being given life advice by weathly, privileged Americans who think they're wise because they've made it to their thirties without massively fucking anything up.

[zaptheimpaler]

Amen.

Once you read enough of this stuff (HN,Quora,blogs) and see directly contradictory advice everywhere, theres no point reading anymore. You can use it understand what you gain and what you lose from going one route, but you have to make up your own mind in the end.

[imissmyjuno]

> I'm sick of being given life advice by weathly, privileged Americans who think they're wise because they've made it to their thirties without massively fucking anything up.

Eek.

[tferris]

> How about we all just chill the fuck out?

That's no option. At least for men.

Men are restless hunters and highly competitive creatures. Men thrive when taking risks, when being in a fight and when they finally won and dominate their peers. As sad it sounds this is what we need and make us happy. We can have breaks from time to time like working as dull office drones avoiding any risks and watching Youporn before bedtime but we degenerate when this state of boredom sticks for longer time. Even if Zuckerberg, its Facebook and the constant flow of successes of peers on the FB news feed drives many into depression, men need this to get out of their comfort zone and start fighting.

(Besides, I think that the original article is crap as many lifestyle advices)

[tomp]

You're wrong. Don't generalize. I'm a man. I'm restless sometimes, but I also need time for myself, to chill (the fuck) out. I'm also completely non-competitive - I've excelled in most things in my life by shear luck (and good genes), so I know success and I know that it doesn't mean much. I don't compare myself with others, the only person I compete with is myself, and it's not because I have a bad self-esteem and want to constantly improve myself, but because otherwise, life is boring.

[anonymous]

Posts like yours make me want to cut off my penis and write "Eunuch" under "Sex" on my ID. But I won't, because the government won't let me first, and because I'm more of a chill kind of person, second.

[tferris]

> make me want to cut off my penis and write "Eunuch" under "Sex" on my ID.

Just getting your testicles removed would do the job too -- but seriously, please get some advice before doing anything.