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Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?
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#12Hollywood has no foundation for offering opinions about morals, family, love or anything else.
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#13Embrace the process!
I'm really bad at finishing things. I have a lot of side projects on the go when perhaps I should focus on just one venture. But I've learned to just embrace trying to do everything at once (even if far from perfectly), and enjoying it rather than beating myself up about failing to consolidate. Might limit potential, but I like it more this way.
(I've run my main business for 20 years. I co-run a co-working space. I have a SaaS project, sports forum, involvement in some apps, a vanlife showcase, an aerial photography side business, etc. About to add something else. List of the main things here: http://www.isaacforman.com.au/)
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#14How important it is to be proactive about career management - don't always take the easy path, even if it pays well.
Doctors are exorbitantly overpaid relative to the value they provide.
How little money matters once you have a few hundred K.
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#15Most people believe whatever they want to believe, and it’s a massive waste of the limited time that is life to try and change their minds.
Peanut butter is best in savory applications.
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#16It's really important to put feedback loops in place in your life to change it in the direction you want it to go.
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#17Happiness is a choice. I'm not saying bad things happening are a choice, often you're not in control of that; but you are always in control of how you respond.
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#18Most people believe whatever they want to believe, and it’s a massive waste of the limited time that is life to try and change their minds. Peanut butter is best in savory applications.
This is a really important lesson to internalize (the first one).
In order to change peoples' minds, they have to want to see that they're wrong. I think certain personality types are innately more disposed to the sort of introspection necessary to evaluate one's beliefs and throw out what's wrong.
Really it comes down to how much you care about truth. Coming from the hard sciences, it's surprising how far you can get in this world without caring even a tiny little bit about truth in many fields, most of which involve "people" and not "things": politics, sales, marketing.
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#19Most people believe whatever they want to believe, and it’s a massive waste of the limited time that is life to try and change their minds. Peanut butter is best in savory applications.
This is a really important lesson to internalize (the first one). In order to change peoples' minds, they have to want to see that they're wrong. I think certain personality types are innately more disposed to the sort of introspection necessary to evaluate one's beliefs and throw out what's wrong. Really it comes down to how much you care about truth. Coming from the hard sciences, it's surprising how far you can ge…
This is a really important lesson to internalize (the first one).
The second is too! I’m telling you, peanut butter is an amazing savory ingredient! You don’t have to go full Hemingway (peanut butter and onion sandwiches), but at least satay is the way. Peanut butter is especially good when it’s spicy.
Plus yes, the other stuff, but I just can’t say enough about peanut butter.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a really important lesson to internalize (the first one). In order to change peoples' minds, they have to want to see that they're wrong. I think certain personality types are innately more disposed to the sort of introspection necessary to evaluate one's beliefs and throw out what's wrong. Really it comes down to how much you care about truth. Coming from the hard sciences, it's surprising how far you can ge…
This is a really important lesson to internalize (the first one). The second is too! I’m telling you, peanut butter is an amazing savory ingredient! You don’t have to go full Hemingway (peanut butter and onion sandwiches), but at least satay is the way. Peanut butter is especially good when it’s spicy. Plus yes, the other stuff, but I just can’t say enough about peanut butter.
It's ironic, I actually like peanut butter a lot too and just tried making a smoothie with it yesterday, it worked very well.