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There is too much criticism and cynicism in the world, especially on social media, either from jealousy, ignorance, boredom, all the above or something else. The world would be a better place without it, certainly less of it. #critisicm #jealousy #boredom #ignorance

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Relishing life at 1x

Life happens at 1x. Every conversation you’ve ever had. Every walk, every meal, every meaningful experience. None of it comes with a speed dial. We’re biological creatures wired for real-time processing. When someone speaks to you in person, you don’t get to fast-forward through the parts you find boring.
Life Happens at 1x Speed – Terrible Software

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/01/08/life-happens-at-1x-speed/

Rest helps muscles grow. Boredom cements knowledge.

We live in a period of unlimited content with every incentive to create even more. So, how did I think the solution to it was – more. It’s likely because it was easier to do more than do the harder work of choosing what is worth listening to, watching, doing?

Upon introspection, I was using my Youtube playlist and podcasts as entertainment. Yet, I chose to make that more efficient.

I have rationalized entertainment as information. I’ve put a “productive” spin to it. I came to a similar conclusion in yesterday’s post where I do need to reclaim my screen.

I listen to a lot of technology, photography, music videos and podcasts and prima facie, they are all informational. However, I fell into the trap of confusing “consumption” as “creation”.

Another example. I am learning about dynamic symmetry to improve my composition.

I’ve taken 20 photos after learning about dynamic symmetry.

I also created a playlist of different people talking about dynamic symmetry.

Instead of choosing a video to help me improve what I’ve practiced. I am convincing myself that entertaining videos, rationalized as information is giving me the same satisfaction as the act of doing.

Listening to stuff in 2x is adding the fallacy of efficiency to this mix.

The absurdity is hilarious.

So:

I will search instead of feed.

I will choose instead of accept.

I will practice instead of consume.

ymmv.

#boredom #control #Life #neuroscience #philosophy #selfControl

It's still pouring rain here. Indy loves the cooler weather, but would be happier with less wind and rain.

#pets #dogs #doggo #dailydoggo #floof #shetlandsheepdog #sheltie #Hawaii #Maui #weather #wx #dogsofmastodon #cute #rainyday #boredom

Widening the aperture…

Nobody signs up for monotony. It just… happens.

One. Habit. At. A. Time.

The same dark roast, one splash of milk, lukewarm by the second sip. The same playlist titled “Workout Jams” at the gym. The same gray stretch of highway. The same voices on the same scheduled calls.

I’ve honed that rhythm until it’s flawless.

I didn’t even notice it happening. It felt like structure. Like I had my life… together. But looking back at the last decade, the days blur, moments occur, a constant low hum whir. I worry about what I’ve chosen to .. defer.

Everything feels… fine. Not amazing. Not horrible. Just a flat… line. A hum without a melody.

My routines. My rituals. Stable? Yes. Yet, my curiosity is silent. My world has shrunk to the size of a monitor.

I have confided myself to the same spaces until they felt liminal – like waiting rooms for a life that was happening elsewhere.

Same room. Same streets. Same faces.

I don’t notice the cage until I step out of it.

That’s why travel always hit me so hard. Distance forces clarity. It shakes me awake. I am sleepwalking. All those choices made to build repetition, and how, in little ways, I’ve stopped yourself from trying.

Travel shows me the wonderful world outside the one I created. Yet, vacations never last.

Eventually, I have to pack the bag. I have to come home. Sometimes, the routine itself is the siren’s call – luring me back to the safety of the known. I adopt a few changes, place a souvenir on the shelf, and then the cycle repeatsI

So, I decided to break the cycle.

Two weeks ago, we pressed pause. A gap year. No work. No commute. Just me, my wife, and my son.

It’s been two weeks into this experiment, and I am breathing, at times hyperventilating but even then it’s fun. I don’t think I could have penned this without the silence – without the time to simply pause.

it doesn’t have to be black-and-white thinking. I realize that I don’t have to be in a novel place to change my perspective.

I don’t need a plane ticket to escape. All I need to do is shuffle my feet, crouch down, or stand on my tiptoes to look at what I am doing from a different angle.

The grass isn’t greener on the other side. It’s greener where you care for it – water it, patch it and give it sunlight. Even the most magical, inspiring place I’ve visited is “the boring backyard” of another person’s life.

So, I want to see the world. But, I also want to capture the adventure right here. To bring back spontaneity. To do something different.

It brings a smile back to my face. Every day felt new when I was a kid. I didn’t need to change homes; I just looked at the world with hungry eyes.

I am excited to see what this year will bring. I certainly intend to explore more of the beautiful world out there with my family. But I know I cannot find the answer only there.

Because I want to widen the aperture of the world I’ve created. And the answer is inside of me, refusing to narrow it again.

Spontaneity is enriching. It’s accessible. And for the first time in a long time, it’s under my control.

Just a new perspective.

🧿

#adventure #boredom #Life #monotony #musings #opinions #philosophy

Boredom is the non-obvious path to creation

When we’re bored, we think. We get ideas. We let our mind wander. We ask ourselves; what if? We remember. We imagine. We relive. We learn. We reprioritize. We plan. We decide.
My 2026 goal is to be bored more often – Colin Devroe

https://cdevroe.com/2025/12/16/2026-goal-boredom/

Colin writes a beautiful post on why he’s prioritizing boredom in 2026.

Usually, if I’m mowing the lawn, showering, shoveling snow, working in the garden, driving, doing the dishes, etc. I’ll have a podcast on. I listen to podcasts and watch YouTube videos that I learn from, so I thought that would be a net positive use of my time. But that only goes so far. I kept shoving new information in without letting myself have the time to use the information that I already collected. So, for now, I’ve been doing these tasks in relative silence… allowing my mind time to work, to distill, to create.

This resonates.

Screenshot showing that I’ve listened to 499 days of podcasts

I was constantly listening to podcasts all the time too. I even had similar rationalizations. I am learning so much. All of these conversations are so interesting. True – to a certain degree.

However, processing them is equally important.

Giving your brain the time and space to crunch through what you heard, saw, felt, smelled is important. Like Colin says, I always come back with connections.

Connections that make sense of the new signals with a very important filter – me.

And that is the ultimate payout of boredom and letting your mind wander.

It’s like waiting for the information to pass through a sieve. A sieve made of all your experiences, principles, morality etc and make you, more you.

#boredom #creativity #Life #neuroscience #philosophy

#boredom & #Arylic #Markers on Fassade.
Spotted in #Berlin #friedrichshain

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#character #graffiti #streetart #mastoArt

My photomontage based on well-known Italian meme "ORA PARLO IO" from of JOK3R's 2016 YouTube thumb video. Text idea in 28·Jan·2025, while photomontage in 29·Jan·2025

#crash #crashbandicoot #idea #italian #meme #italianmeme #jok3r #oraparloio #adaptation #creative #game #play #havefun #fun #funny #boredom #akuaku #protect #protection #photomontage #mask #youtube #cover #videogame

I am going to make videos on mastodon!!! 🙌

I want to try make pngtuber videos and posts on this platform!!! I feel bored... so I decided why not do something fun tomorrow!!!

Please recommend me some horror games or visual novels!!!(´TωT`). My pngtuber will mostly be based on my profile picture you see.

Don't worry, it will look minimalistic and goodヽ(○・▽・○)ノ゛.

Love you all mastodoners!!! :blobnom: :blobmiou:

#pngtuber #contentcreator #idea #boredom #mastodon #fun

Get Bored! https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/get-bored/
#HackadayColumns #Rants #Boredom #Creativity #Newsletter

‘There’s nothing like boredom to make you write’: A rare interview with the elusive Agatha Christie – BBC.com

‘There’s nothing like boredom to make you write’: A rare interview with the elusive Agatha Christie

3 days ago

By Greg McKevitt

Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries have captivated audiences for more than a century, but, 50 years after her death, she remains an enigma. A rarely heard BBC interview from 1955 reveals some of the secrets of a writer who was as complex as her plots.

Dame Agatha Christie was brilliant at hiding in plain sight. She presented herself as a genial older lady in a fur coat who loved gardening, good food, family and dogs, but behind that cosy exterior she delighted in plotting best-selling stories of poisonings, betrayals and blood. And she offered few clues to the inner workings of her ingenious mind.

Christie was chronically shy, but in 1955 she was persuaded to give a rare interview in her London flat for a BBC radio profile. In it she revealed how an unconventional childhood fired her imagination, why writing plays was easier than writing novels, and how she could finish a book in three months.

Born Agatha Miller into a prosperous family in 1890, she was mostly home-schooled. When asked why she took up writing, Christie said: “I put it all down to the fact that I never had any education. Perhaps I’d better qualify that by admitting I did eventually go to school in Paris when I was 16 or thereabouts. But until then, apart from being taught a little arithmetic, I’d had no lessons to speak of at all.”

WATCH: ‘Three months seems to be quite a reasonable time to complete a book’.

Editor’s Note: The audio file from BBC is in the article online. If you wish to hear. Below is the same audio file as loaded January 14, 2026, onto YouTube. –DrWeb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF8X9fVeigI

Christie described her childhood as “gloriously idle”, but she had a voracious appetite for reading. “I found myself making up stories and acting the different parts, and there’s nothing like boredom to make you write. So by the time I was 16 or 17, I’d written quite a number of short stories and one long, dreary novel.” She said she finished writing her first published novel at the age of 21. After several rejections, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in 1920, introducing her most famous creation, Hercule Poirot.

The poisoning murder method that she chose for the story came straight from her personal experience during World War One. While her first husband Archie Christie was deployed in France, she worked on the home front as a volunteer nurse in a hospital for wounded soldiers. She became an assistant in the hospital pharmacy, which gave her an understanding of medicines and toxins. In her stories, poison is used in 41 murders, attempted murders and suicides.

The real work is done in thinking out the development of your story – Agatha Christie

Christie’s typical formula begins with a closed circle of suspects from the same social world, and a murder that generates clues leading to a climactic confrontation. At the centre is a private detective, such as Poirot or Miss Marple, who unravels the mystery and reveals the truth to the group in a dramatic final scene. This structure, familiar yet endlessly adaptable, is part of what makes Christie’s work so enduring.

In 1926, she published The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a book that cemented her professional reputation even as her personal life unravelled that year. Her beloved mother died, and Archie confessed he had fallen in love with another woman. He asked for a divorce. Struggling with grief and writer’s block, Christie herself became the subject of a mystery. On a cold December night, her crashed car was found at a desolate Surrey beauty spot, balanced precariously over a chalk quarry. Police found her fur coat and driving licence in the car, but there was no sign of her.

Agatha Christie said that writing plays was ‘much more fun than writing books’ (Credit: Getty Images)

One of Britain’s biggest ever missing-person searches was launched. The story had all the makings of a tabloid sensation: the celebrated crime novelist who had disappeared leaving a trail of tantalising clues, the seven-year-old daughter left behind, and the handsome husband entangled with a younger lover. Even Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got involved, hiring a psychic to connect with Agatha via one of her gloves.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘There’s nothing like boredom to make you write’: A rare interview with the elusive Agatha Christie

#1955 #AgathaChristie #Audio #BBCCom #Biographical #Boredom #Culture #Mysteries #Novels #ShortStories #Writing

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#boredom is a state of mind that urges the observer to create something new.

See the lyrics for the song “Boredom” by Tyler, The Creator
#TylerTheCreator #Boredom
https://daletra.com/tyler-the-creator/lyrics/boredom.html

A quotation from A. A. Milne

Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which Kanga wasn’t listening.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 8 “Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition” (1926)

More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/80986/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #winniethepooh #kanga #owl #inattention #bore #ignoring #anecdote #blather #boredom #conversation #longwords #longwindedness #loquaciousness #vocabulary

A quotation from George Bernard Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Treatise on Parents and Children, “Children’s Happiness” (1914)

More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #activity #boredom #busyness #ennui #happiness #introspection #meme #misery #occupation #preoccupation #purpose #work #worry #meme

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. - Shaw

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

Work, therefore, is desirable, first and foremost, as a preventive of boredom, for the boredom that a man feels when he is doing necessary though uninteresting work is as nothing in comparison with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with his days.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 14 “Work” (1930)

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/808…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #boredom #effort #ennui #focus #todo #work #meaning #purpose