the time flies by while I play at learning things that I do not have an aptitude for
What are the successful strategies for this kind of play? Any tips? I'm already feeling the tug that I need some bigger purpose, and (perhaps most acutely) a community to go along with it.
Which is dangerous, when you try to satisfy those instincts through the mechanism of "work". I think a lot of what we talk about when we talk about work is a masquerade for these deeper things; it's just there's no culturally-compatible concept to draw from. "Work" is the closest approximation that people can compute.
Thanks for the kind words.
What are the successful strategies for this kind of play? Any tips? I'm already feeling the tug that I need some bigger purpose, and (perhaps most acutely) a community to go along with it.
Which is dangerous, when you try to satisfy those instincts through the mechanism of "work". I think a lot of what we talk about when we talk about work is a masquerade for these deeper things; it's just there's no culturally-compatible concept to draw from. "Work" is the closest approximation that people can compute.