THE VIDEO SHELF · life advice
Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen
The original music video for Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen, a spoken-word piece built on Mary Schmich's 1997 column of life advice, produced by Baz Luhrmann.
Why HN readers recommended it
Posted as timeless, comforting life advice in threads about careers, aging, and uncertainty.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- steffyweffy777
- Topic
- life advice
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 10
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
I never really post on HN (even though I should) and saw this post and had to respond. First, if you ARE VERY SERIOUS about suicide, please seek help as others have mentioned. I suspect you're simply very sad and venting, but please don't do …
samirageb on Hacker News · 2011-10
In I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.The real question is why do you care? Why you worry today about something which may not happen in the future? My job most likely won't exist in ten years, do you think I'm worried? You might die in car accident, from heart attack or …
Markoff on Hacker News · 2026-03
In I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years"If I could offer you only one tip for the future, Sunscreen would be it" A lot of wisdom in a 5min song: [VIDEO]
aqw137 on Hacker News · 2018-11
In Ask HN: How to accept that life is unfair?
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.
