navel-gazing

The only feedback you need is from your customers--everything else is just bullshit and navel-gazing.

Let's try to convert all this navel-gazing into something usable by your average HN reader.

I think talking about flaws in political systems without any point of reference is navel-gazing and not very interesting.

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.

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 not senseless navel-gazing and is quite significant.

Large navel-gazing organizations are dangerous, in general.

Snowden made a very serious, calculated ethical decision to release specific documentation that he felt needed to be in the public forum as reliable, confirmed information of governmental surveillance activity (not speculation or navel-gazing).

And even if Developers can themselves be Users, in the sense that they gain some sort of joy out of consuming the developer tools of the trade, its still just navel-gazing until there is actually some sort of use out of the activity.

I'd never be so audacious as to state "I hate non-fiction, there's very little to learn from boorish, presumptuous, and poorly considered interpretations of the author's reality" This sort of navel-gazing article is uninteresting and of questionable real-world value, reminiscent of breathless puff pieces on the (soon to be forgotten) luminaries of.com technology that were so popular in the mid to late 1990s.

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?