Ask HN: How have you handled existential crisis in your life?
From time to time, more often than I would like, I have a full blown existential crisis. It can be triggered by something as simple as a YouTube video, suggested to me by YouTube, that is a cancer patient talking about their final days. That's what it was today. Given we're (largely) engineers and science minded folks here, I ask HN: How do you handle deep existential questions? More specifically, here are some questions I really struggle with: - How do you deal with the fact that we don't know why anything at all exists? Why, for instance, do atoms, subatomic particles, etc, exist AT ALL? Why not NOTHING? - How do you deal with the fact that your life is meaningless. You will die and - at best - leave behind a legacy for history books. More likely, you will die and it will be completely insignificant. To put it another way: How do you deal with the fact that your life is
Why it failed
From time to time, more often than I would like, I have a full blown existential crisis. It can be triggered by something as simple as a YouTube video, suggested to me by YouTube, that is a cancer patient talking about their final days. That's what it was today. Given we
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- erigin
- Ended
- 2018
- Source
- hackernews