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ChipSkylark

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    Comment #39207411

    Identify who you and society views as the masters / what "mastery" is Immerse yourself in their world and surround yourself with them on a daily basis if possible (where/how they w…

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    Comment #37679136

    Firstly, I believe people will buy almost anything if it's positioned and marketed to them correctly, so I wouldn't get discouraged if there are similar things out there at this st…

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    Comment #37224900

    Hey all, Excited to share and solicit feedback for a project we're building to assist pre-sales and customer success teams in value selling for B2B SaaS solutions. HotStart is a pr…

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    Comment #37167259

    Always nice when the startup CEO emails you directly via CRM automation about your unique potential at the company and when you agree to chat he hands you off to the "senior techni…

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    Comment #36047366

    I'm picturing energetic and socially conscious "hip" 20-somethings doing a country-wide elementary school tour where the whole school gathers in an auditorium to watch them rap abo…

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    Comment #29922939

    Hey all, Chris from Upways here. Wanted to share a little bit about the story behind this and why I think its useful. Apologies in advance, this is a long one. During the pandemic …

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    Comment #29279910

    I'm not a doctor or health professional of any kind. But my friend showed me a study a while back of turmeric supplementation and how it can be comparable and in some cases more ef…

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    Ask HN: When's the last time you went 12 hours or more without a cell phone?

    How long did you not have it for, what we're the circumstances, and how did you feel at the end of the distanced period?

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    Comment #27633154

    Personal take/rant/experience: I fell in love with programming because I didn't give a shit about maintainability, architectural considerations, stressing vulns or holding a pager …

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    Comment #26269993

    Try scaling back all forms of social media + notification-based apps and start re-adding them incrementally, one variable at a time, and track how you feel and think in response to…

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    Comment #26083335

    Being already known by my friends and family to be an "overthinker" and prone to "analysis paralysis", I sometimes wonder why I'm still a SWE. I've slowly started to realize over t…

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    Comment #23874504

    Large corporations like Amazon offset tax liability with tax credits from huge R&D expenditures [1], and those can be "moonshots" or highly innovative products that change the worl…

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    Comment #22797230

    One more to the pile. My method: 1) Write down a clear S.M.A.R.T. goal or thing you want to do on a piece of paper (OKR style), a clear definition of why you are trying to do the t…

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    Comment #22537528

    2 cents: Get off / moderate your social media, news media, TV show service intake - stop giving in to the comparison game that you can never win. When you play this game, you are l…

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    Comment #22329657

    Note: I realize this response sounds similar to what you have already tried, but it's slightly different in a way that might be useful to you. Background: senior year of college I …

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    Comment #22312907

    My friends like to talk about how awesome it would be to time travel or know what the outcome of a future decision will be. Even when armed with knowledge from observed outcomes of…

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    Comment #21175065

    Sure. I came up with this method on my own but I'm sure someone else has already tried something similar and documented it. Take a piece of paper (or google doc) and put a theme or…

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    Comment #21173802

    For me, this is one of the most valuable posts I have seen on hacker news. Thanks for sharing. I strengthen my writing muscle by writing down a foundational "anchor" concept at the…