Rachel Victoria Madrigal
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Rachel Victoria Madrigal
Hobbies are what the smartest people spend their time on when they aren’t constrained by near-term financial goals.
Chris Dixon • What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years
In an age of instrumentalization, the hobbyist is a subversive: he insists that some things are worth doing for themselves alone, despite offering no payoffs in terms of productivity or profit. The derision we heap upon the avid stamp collector or train spotter might really be a kind of defense mechanism, to spare us from confronting the... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
one of the things I had to do when starting on the path to early retirement was to replace my money-wasting and generally unproductive hobbies with hobbies there were free (see A modular design) and meaningful a) to not cause friction with my money saving, b) to provide meaning that was unrelated to work, and c) to learn new
Jacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
So what happens when work disappears, turning everything into a hobby? A hobby is fun. Many people spend a great deal of time trying to escape work, so they can spend more time on their hobbies. But while they may be fun, hobbies are also at some level always frivolous. They cannot give meaning to a life, precisely because they are optional. You... See more
Joseph Heath • Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
What hobbies do you have? What do you enjoy enough to spend money on, even though it’s not essential?
Arvid Kahl • The Embedded Entrepreneur: How to Build an Audience-Driven Business
Hobbies are the first way we can integrate CALM activities into our lives. The defining characteristic of a hobby is that it’s low stakes; there’s simply no way to win or lose a hobby, nor to turn it into a business. Very few of us are likely to discover in adulthood that we’re professional-standard painters
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
In my opinion a good hobby has gear you can nerd out on, increasing levels of skill or knowledge that are never finished, is meditative and creates flow state, and naturally creates social connection.
Jack Altmanx.com
Obsessions are one of the greatest telltale signs of success. Understand your obsessions and you will understand your natural motivation—the thing for which you would walk to the end of the earth.