gazing

If you do tire of gazing slowly at the surroundings, reach for the book rather than your phone.

To only call something a product when it has auto-update is such ridiculous HN navel gazing that it's just funny.

One part Gimmick, two parts Chart Junk with a large dash of Navel Gazing and a squeeze of Self Re-inforcement.

Navel-gazing: from a public health perspective, aren't widely-prevalent 'creeping' factors of the leading killer in the US the low-hanging fruit to ban?

So as long as the person is not gazing about confused, clearly having no idea how to proceed, isn't the natural assumption that they are fine, and so you should leave them alone?

I'm not saying it can't be done right, just that it doesn't seem to be a magic bullet and can devolve into navel-gazing.

However, that doesn't address the thrust of the argument which is if you create a society that rewards sky-gazing it creates the probability of a disincentive to work.

Meanwhile, random blogs pop up, have some useful posts for < 1 year and then die off or evolve into navel-gazing and I unsubscribe.

From the perspective of a moderator, perhaps the best thing to do is to cull the excess negativity and triumphant navel-gazing that perennially afflicts the more idealogical forums.

It's navel gazing by angst ridden teenagers.

Large navel-gazing organizations are dangerous, in general.

I'll admit that college professors can live in their own world of academic navel gazing, but there is an actual point to theoretical computer science.

Or in the words of Cervantes, "translation from one language into another [...] is like gazing at a Flemish tapestry with the wrong side out."

> Research is like buying lottery tickets, except you have no idea how big the payoff could be The "Friendly AI" crowd is engaged in navel gazing, rather than research.

LOL Rational Wiki quote (endnote refs left in): "His work and expertise in computer technology[9][10] has been all but overshadowed by his batshit insane wingnut tendencies in the wake of 9/11, as well as his increasingly wanky ego-gazing[11][12] as he acknowledges that people aren't so crazy about him anymore.