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人生苦短
Life is Short
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Paul Graham 的经典短文《Life is Short》，探讨人生短暂这一事实应如何影响我们的选择：识别并剔除生活中的“垃圾”（无意义的会议、琐事、成瘾性事物），把时间留给真正在乎的事。文章篇幅不长，却浓缩了随年龄增长才会体会到的诸多领悟。
为什么经久不衰：它把“人生有限”从抽象感慨变成可操作的决策原则——不断追问“这是我想度过时间的方式吗”，因此每隔几年就会被重新翻出并登上首页。
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技术让喜欢的事物愈发上瘾，必须有意识地自问如何支配时间
如果你还没孩子、还年轻，请认真读读这篇。文中充满随年龄才能获得的领悟。特别想强调这段：技术进步的副产品是我们喜欢的东西会变得越来越容易上瘾，这意味着我们必须有意识地避免沉迷——跳出来问自己“这是我想度过时间的方式吗？”请经常这样问自己，如果答案是“不”或“也许”，那就别做了，长远看能省去很多痛苦和遗憾。
jacquesm查看英文原文
If you can't see past the link to the other essays here please try to isolate this one for a bit, especially if you're young and you don't have kids yet. This essay is rich in realizations that come with age, and in some sense I would have potentially gotten a lot of mileage out of it when I was 20 or so (but then I would probably have lacked the background to fully comprehend it), and even more when I was a young first time father. One gem in here that has not been high-lit by other commenters in this thread that stands out for me because that's one that I did figure out very early on in life (and this served me very well) is this one: "As I've written before, one byproduct of technical progress is that things we like tend to become more addictive. Which means we will increasingly have to make a conscious effort to avoid addictions—to stand outside ourselves and ask "is this how I want to be spending my time?"" Please do ask yourself that question often, and if the answer is 'no' or 'maybe' then simply don't and save yourself a lot of grief and regret in the long run.
按“去噪—剔除压力源—砍娱乐—填入要事”的路径实践，生活显著改善
这篇文章说出了我过去一年一直在做的事。第一步是清除干扰：工作时间切断手机、邮件、聊天，只在固定时段查看。第二步是剔除那些带来压力却不值得的生活情境和客户。第三步砍掉大部分电视电影和闲逛上网。最后用腾出的时间填入真正在乎的事。结果身体更好、压力骤降、学了新语言、去了很多地方，收获巨大。
jfaucett查看英文原文
This article resonated a lot with me. It verbalizes what I've been trying to do over the past year or so with my own life. For me a lot of the BS elimination on the first pass was just getting rid of distractions and interruptions, so I cut out the phone/email/chat, etc all during my working hours except for certain times, like 10 minutes after lunch and just before the end of the day. The noise was all driving me insane. The next step was to remove things from my life that cause stress and are not worth the effort because of the BS they involve. Whether that's just life situations or clients it has been very refreshing. The next step was to kill a lot of tv/movies, and most of my free time internet usage. Finally, I started steadily filling in the new time gainings with things I really care about and the personal sense of well-being and accomplishment has improved drastically. So I have no intent of doing anything other than continuing to go down this road, I've gotten in better physical shape, better health, enjoy life more, have learned a new language, visited many new places, my stress level has dropped by at last 200%, its been a very positive journey so far.
目睹父亲未完成的项目，作者领悟到完成比开始更重要
父亲的离世教会我把事情做完。他是七八十年代的软件工程师，我小时候他教我编程。2011 年他去世后我翻看他的电脑，看到那些永远冻结、无人再用的未完成项目，深感悲伤。这段经历让我从业余爱好者转向职业程序员。强迫自己专注单个项目很难，但把事情做完带来了极大的满足感。
japhyr查看英文原文
My father's death taught me to finish the things I start. He was a software engineer in the 70s and 80s, and he taught me how to program when I was a little kid. When he died in 2011 I went through his computer, looking at the projects he was still working on. It was profoundly sad to think that these projects were frozen, that no one would ever use them. The experience of looking through his unfinished projects led me to make the transition from hobbyist programmer to professional. It was hard to stop playing with a bunch of different projects and make myself focus on one single project, but in the end it has been extremely satisfying to finish what I start. I wish my father was still around to see what I've done, but I might never have finished anything without the lesson of his passing.
量化余生与父母相处的时间，揭示“来日方长”是错觉
推荐相关阅读 Tim Urban 的《The Tail End》。我一年读五本书，意味着余生只能从所有书中选 300 本来读。再算算父母：18 岁前我几乎每天都见到他们，上大学后一年只见约 10 天。假设父母活到我 60 岁，还剩 300 天相处时间——还不如童年任何一年。高中毕业时，我已用掉了 93% 的面对面亲子时间，现在享受的是最后 5%。
Kuiper查看英文原文
For related reading, I recommend this Tim Urban piece, "The Tail End": https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html I read about five books a year, so even though it feels like I’ll read an endless number of books in the future, I actually have to choose only 300 of all the books out there to read and accept that I’ll sign off for eternity without knowing what goes on in all the rest. ... I’ve been thinking about my parents, who are in their mid-60s. During my first 18 years, I spent some time with my parents during at least 90% of my days. But since heading off to college and then later moving out of Boston, I’ve probably seen them an average of only five times a year each, for an average of maybe two days each time. 10 days a year. Being in their mid-60s, let’s continue to be super optimistic and say I’m one of the incredibly lucky people to have both parents alive into my 60s. That would give us about 30 more years of coexistence. If the ten days a year thing holds, that’s 300 days left to hang with mom and dad. Less time than I spent with them in any one of my 18 childhood years. It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end.
推荐塞内加《论生命之短暂》为同类主题的最佳读物
就这个主题而言，我读过的最深刻、最有文采的作品是塞内加的《论生命之短暂》。
pmoriarty查看英文原文
By far the deepest and most eloquent writing on this subject that I've ever read has been Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life".[1][2] [1] - https://www.amazon.com/Shortness-Life-Seneca/dp/1941129420/ [2] - https://tripinsurancestore.com/4/on-the-shortness-of-life.pdf
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