Is Hacker News a Waste of Time?
TomOfTTB: Information is as useful as you make it.  It’s really a questions of "are you just reading to entertain yourself?" vs "are you reading to learn and allowing your worldview to be shaped based on what you are reading?"  Almost every piece of information is useful if you pick it apart and actively seek out the lessons to be learned from it.I mean, Henry David Thoreau spent his time wandering around the wilderness, an activity that most would call a waste of time, and yet the lessons he learned about simplicity and its impact on life are still being quoted nearly 150 years after his death.Wisdom is everywhere the trick is to hang around places where you can find it while enjoying yourself.  If HN provides that for you than it’s far from a waste of time.