hobbies : time != money

A hobby is:

an activity done regularly in one’s leisure time for pleasure.

Simple enough. But I got stuck on a question the other day: is hanging out with friends a hobby?

When I think of hobbies, I usually think of things with a skill curve — painting, an instrument, a sport. Things you can get measurably better at. That’s how I approach most of my hobbies too: break it down, find the weak points, improve.

But can you “get better” at hanging out? And should you even try? Maybe the whole point is that it doesn’t need to be optimised. Not everything has to be a progression system.

who cares anyway?