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Ask HN: What Do You Want?

by DirectorKrennic on 6/3/23, 3:02 PM with 3 comments

Open ended question. What do you want? Why do you want what you want? Do you have it? If you don't have it, what is preventing you from having it? Do you want things that are literally impossible? Or technically possible but unlikely to ever happen? Do you think you would start wanting more or different things if you got what you currently want? Are your wants finite? Is there a point at which you could say, "I have enough, I don't want more"? Or will you always find something to chase after?

  • by thesuperbigfrog on 6/3/23, 3:49 PM

    You need qualify this question. "What do you want?" is too open ended to get answers focused enough for meaningful discussion. The answers could range from the existential to the everyday / mundane. Also, you should tell us what you want to provide more context.

    Are you talking about long-term wants / goals? If so, how long is "long-term"?

    If you are talking about short-term wants / goals? How short is "short-term"?

    Are you talking about life's ambitions? Work / career ambitions? Personal life / family goals? Financial goals?

    Are you trying to build a "bucket list" and searching for ideas?

    What do you want?

    What do I want?

    I figure if you are going to go, go big: I want to live forever in an eternally youthful body. I want to be ridiculously weathly so that I do not have to work unless I feel like it and then on what I want / is meaningful to me. I want everyone to love me for who I am and have tons of family and friends who want to spend time with me. I want world peace and everyone else in the whole world to have the same incredible, fun life that I would have.

  • by codetrotter on 6/3/23, 3:44 PM

    I want to own a house, without having to take up a loan from the banks. Here me and my girlfriend can have kids and we can all live in the house.

    I want that the company I own earns so much money that I can be comfortably confident that my company can pay me a pay check for decades without further reliance on others. This will leave me free to experiment and create things as I see fit.

    I want that some of the things I make gain a whole bunch of customers, so that I can hire other people to work on more things.

    At the moment my income comes from contracting for another company. I like working for them as well, and want to work for them for the foreseeable future. The other things I mention above are long term goals, and I am building towards those goals.

  • by lantry on 6/3/23, 3:16 PM

    A donut. I missed free donut day :(