In my view, the hacker mentality is always about finding a way to automate your way out of tedium and do something more interesting with that time instead.

We're all mortal. Even computers have a finite number of ticks on this earth. Time should not be jail-time, where you try to make it pass quickly, which feels like being dead already. It should be child-time, where you look forward to each second and are spent and saddened when it's over.