I have so many thoughts on the 5 or 6 things this article touched on and they're all jumbled together into this cat poster of an article.

Productivity, prioritization, efficiency, control, purpose, happiness...

I'll just rant about one: Control.

> you can’t decide to kick the ball, nor score a goal, or much less win the game; you can only decide to move your leg.

If you couldn't control how you win the game, why the f is Messi Messi?

You can see what the field is doing. Where the other team is moving, pointing, gaps in the defense, where your team is currently, how to utilize your next move of run, pass, or kick. You do decide to kick the ball, score a goal and win a game by fighting with everything you have because the opposite is true. You can absolutely throw a game by actively sabotaging everything.

The spirit of what is written about Control is "don't worry about what you don't control, one being the result. Just worry about and do what you can" (which i agree with) but it's said so poorly.

My disdain towards this article... Why are we accepting cat posters on Hnews homepage?

To be fair it doesn't say "you can't score a goal" or "you can't kick the ball", it says you can only decide to _try_ to do that. But agree it's not that deep as they seem to think, you can take this line of thinking further as much as you want (you can try to move your leg but perhaps due to injury or external blockage it won't move; so all you can really do is "desire" not "decide"? Is there some very deep meaning to this? And what even is this "you" that we are talking about?)

> My disdain towards this article... Why are we accepting cat posters on Hnews homepage?

Because it's still miles better than the majority of AI slop being posted here (see current FP which has "Why code in Python")...

We've reached a point in humanity where even empty platitudes is still more profound than the majority of essays being created.