normalcy

But then I've been surprised by how narrow a band "normalcy" really is before. I lived in a van for a summer.

It really does feel like putting on a mask of normalcy a lot of the time though. If it makes you feel any better, there are a lot of people like you and me out there.

Eliminating DST would be a huge step to bringing some level of normalcy back to time.

Will there be an unwritten "normalcy code" that disabled people will have to follow to avoid assault?

Disrupting normalcy and how the establishment are living. Where do they go?

But I wonder whether this wave of startup innovation will look like a blip on the radar of normalcy in 50 years' time.

> But I wonder whether this wave of startup innovation will look like a blip on the radar of normalcy in 50 years' time. Probably not even a blip really.

Sounds to me like you're manufacturing normalcy. Reality is too complex to fit into a narrative.

I can see how it might look like a humblebrag, but to me it's more a way of asserting normalcy to my friends, my family, most of all to myself.

If that's where you learn about normalcy, you're going to have a shitty moral compass. Yes, there are also cases of great parents having shitty kids, parenting is a complicated and messy business.

You have to live with what depression means to find normalcy, otherwise it will be a background process throughout whatever you may do, thereby hurting you more. I'd like you to ask yourself one question, what is your definition of success?

And given that 'not making money' means, essentially, starvation and death, it suggests that perhaps he should rethink the normalcy of withdrawing so completely from the world. I would only add this argument to yours, not replace it.

Because people are used to their Windows and Mac computers "just working", they think that is the steady-state of OSes, and that Linux is somehow failing to achieve normalcy.

But a few self-interested people can leverage the normalcy of those around them to accomplish things easily. I have to give him some respect for getting into YC, but based on everything I've seen, I'm not sure exactly what he 'gets done'.

I think a number of folks argue that the most successful businesspeople "surf the edge" between normalcy and sociopathy. I would add that when the business environment is closer to "bubble-dom", the true sociopaths can rise but when the "tide goes out", these characters go to jail - we saw that in the last two crashes.

Because of measures taken decades ago, these professions have achieved a level of normalcy that has totally eluded engineering as a profession.

The doer within me couldn't wait to go to hack sessions every weekend, just so I could feel sense of substance and normalcy while building things with other hackers. During weekdays I would watch one of my entrepreneurial MBA classmates writing articles for Forbes so her Startup could be promoted in the article footer.

And so each thing triggers other things, until I am just left with this deep feeling that I have failed as a human, like everyone else has this thing going for them and I simply do not, and my only normalcy comes from the lucky fact that most of them are not paying any attention to me, which is also sad in its own way. I live a much less stressful life now, and that helps.

It had been pretty easy to shrug off politics as corrupt and not care when we still had relative normalcy. But a lot of Americans have awoken in recent weeks to find themselves living in a sci-fi dystopia that we were warned about in the classics of literature, the kind that had always been eerily similar to our lives but never quite reached.

But in some ways in the last decade or so North Korea has been creeping towards something close to normalcy, albeit far from idealcorrupt officials, flourishing black markets, extreme disparities in wealth, and even cross-border trade with China. Nothing to portend a Soviet-style collapse of course, but even the slightest increase in openness is something we should welcome.

Your relative normalcy gives you the privilege of thinking how weird "nearly everyone is", and that having no privacy wouldn't be such a big deal. There are many groups of people who still experience tremendous bigotry... for example, having everyone be completely transparent doesn't make transgender folks any less rare, or any less subject to prejudice and hostility. On the whole, having everyone "come out" about whatever it is that takes them outside of "normalcy" might be good for society.