Discussion
technically a blog
ray_v: Falling down when you're 50+ is a HELLAVA lot riskier than falling down when you're younger.This appears to be a blog post about risk tolerance - which of course changes dramatically depending on lots of factors. If I fall as a middle-aged person, I'm much more likely to cause permanent, irreparable harm to myself - which, maybe not worth the rewards.
pmg102: > But the thing is? Falling doesn't have to be dangerousEvery time you use a question mark in place of a comma? A kitten dies.
pasquinelli: question marks for non-questions drive me crazy. when i read them i hear an annoying tone, that's all. makes me vomit.
erictd: Falling is a skill like any other - the more you fall, the better you get at it.
vjvjvjvjghv: [delayed]
comrade1234: I've gotten much more cautious since I had a fall a few years ago and realized that I'm not so invulnerable now. I was ice skating - I'm a very good skater and grew up on skates around the same time I learned to walk and played on traveling hockey teams my entire youth. Someone fell on the ice and I reached down and was helping them up when my skates slipped out from under me. I fell backwards and cracked the back of my head on the ice. I swear I felt my brain slosh in my head. Luckily no concussion or other injury but since then I've just taken way fewer risks and I don't plan on changing that.
clueless: > If you take a lot of chances, that adds up eventually and you'll have some big wins. Just do it safely, so that they don't add up to a lot of big losses, too.And here is great contradiction in this whole essay. You can't "safely" take a lot of chances and not lose big, when in most cases to have big wins, one has to to take unsafe things...This is also why folks who have a safety net (in terms of family wealth, etc) tend to do better as entrepreneurs. Not sure this essay is helpful.
yubainu: It's certainly important to prevent falls. Especially as adults, we tend to lack the energy to get up. In that respect, children are amazing. I recently started studying for an LLM as a hobby, but I keep falling over and spending less time getting up. I often think it would be easier to just give up and go to sleep.
smallarmsdealer: TED Talk cadence speech and now I guess writing thanks to AI is SO cringe
svat: This post relies on:> Falling doesn't have to be dangerous. You can fall a lot without getting hurt, if you learn to fall safely. With inline skating, you have protective gear (helmet, knee/elbow pads, wrist guards) which protect you, and you have techniques for falling which let you use this gear to its fullest potential.Is that actually true? Is it possible with enough protective gear, that falling can be safe, even for older people? Doesn't your own body weight come into the picture, despite helmets and knee pads? (Genuinely curious!)
