<story><title>Just for Fun. No, really.</title><url>https://justforfunnoreally.dev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boberoni</author><text>I moved to San Francisco a few months ago. In my second week in the city, I went to a party and someone I had never met before opened a conversation with &amp;quot;What do you care most about in life?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;After a second of thinking, I answered &amp;quot;Having fun.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I asked him the same question back and he said &amp;quot;Having an impact on the world.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Although I don&amp;#x27;t think about it that much, I realized that I personally didn&amp;#x27;t care that much about my impact on the world. Any impact that I create would simply be a byproduct of me pursuing whatever activities I find fun.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, a positive impact in my eyes might end up being a negative impact to others. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MikeTheRocker</author><text>Cynically I believe that person to be judgmental and self-absorbed in their motives for asking the question at the party. They didn&amp;#x27;t care about your answer, they wanted you to ask them the same in return so they could feel good about themself. It&amp;#x27;s all too typical in SF in my experience. That said, I love living in a city where people are genuinely passionate about making things better (at least in their estimation).</text></comment>
<story><title>Just for Fun. No, really.</title><url>https://justforfunnoreally.dev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boberoni</author><text>I moved to San Francisco a few months ago. In my second week in the city, I went to a party and someone I had never met before opened a conversation with &amp;quot;What do you care most about in life?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;After a second of thinking, I answered &amp;quot;Having fun.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I asked him the same question back and he said &amp;quot;Having an impact on the world.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Although I don&amp;#x27;t think about it that much, I realized that I personally didn&amp;#x27;t care that much about my impact on the world. Any impact that I create would simply be a byproduct of me pursuing whatever activities I find fun.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, a positive impact in my eyes might end up being a negative impact to others. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justinlloyd</author><text>We may have run in to the same person in SF.&lt;p&gt;When I used to attend in-person network events, I was sometimes asked &amp;quot;what do you care about?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Which, to me, tagged them as people who weren&amp;#x27;t all that interested in you, but really wanted you to ask the same question back so they could feel good about their answer, e.g. &amp;quot;having an impact&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;making the world a better place.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;My answer to that question was always &amp;quot;fucking around and finding out.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But more often than not, people would ask, &amp;quot;what is it you do?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And my answer to that was always &amp;quot;whatever the fuck I want to, it makes money and everyone goes home happy.&amp;quot;</text></comment>