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Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

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Post by zachruss92 »

beltsazar wrote: post #98
shaneos wrote: post #20

Aphantasia: How it feels to be blind in your mind By Blake Ross https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A... Before reading this post I had no idea I had aphantasia and thought everyone else was the same as me, unable to see anything when they closed their eyes. This helped me understand myself and my relationships so much better than ever before. Thanks Blake!

What's even crazier is that not everyone has an internal monologue: https://www.insidemymind.me/blog/brain-stuff/today-i-learned... If aphantasia is "internally blind", this one is "internally mute and deaf". I wonder if anyone in the world has both conditions. That would be interesting to understand how they think.

This blew my mind when I first discovered this.

Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

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Post by RobertRoberts »

rado wrote: post #14

Not life changing, but my favourite is "The 100% correct way to do CSS breakpoints" by David Gilbertson, because it clearly and convincingly restores common sense in an industry quick to follow well established nonsense. https://medium.com/free-code-camp/the-100-correct-way-to-do-...

I have only 1 break point now. 960px. This is based primarily on content, not the screen/window size. After 20+ years doing web design and multi-media, I just got tired of fighting changes to trends without any value for those changes.

Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

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Post by liveoneggs »

piyh wrote: post #105
WhompingWindows wrote: post #94

This early retirement post got me to save a LOT more money for my future, while friends were out vacationing or even worse, buying very expensive gizmos. I have one friend who lives in a crappy apartment absolutely filled with "top of the line" gizmos, that amount of money could've had him retiring one year earlier. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...

I went hard on this for 8 or 9 years for the start of my career. Now with a kid and a house FIRE is on the back burner, but I still saved a ton of money. If I were to never save another cent and just rely on growth on what I have, I'd still have a secure "normal" retirement fund. +1 for the money mustaches.

CoastFIRE

Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

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Post by barneygale »

ripitrust wrote: post #46

https://blog.tjcx.me/p/consume-less-create-more This article inspired me on two things : 1) Lots of the things I do in everyday life is just to consume: buying, watching, following, etc. These things either consume my money, or my time. These things make me feel good, but it does not generate real value. In order to get rich, I need to create things. I also start to realize that great people are great because they st…

If you /really/ want to make money, you don't sell. You buy and rent out.

Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

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Post by tomcooks »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #104

Wow! Awesome links. Is there a way to get a bulleted list of all links/articles/posts mentioned in this thread?

If I were you I'd investigate how you can get the source of this page (for example with a beautiful soup python script) and filter out http* links (for example with python re library) and how to save them somewhere like a flat file (python file operations)

or sage this page as linkstocheckout.html and in a terminal try filtering out urls with grep:

```

grep -Eoi ']+>' linkstocheckout.html | grep -Eo 'href="[^\"]+"' | grep -Eo '(http|https)://[^/"]+'

```

Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

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Post by ema »

7 years ago I had just aborted an internship, my foray into being an employed adult, because I found myself unable to deal with disagreements. Contrary to my naive hope that the confidence boost from being a Professional Software Developer(tm) would solve all my emotional problems I now knew that my limitations would follow me around anywhere I would go. But I had no idea how to change and was too stuck in my own anxiety and arrogance to ask for help.

Around that time I Somehow stumbled upon this[1] article on how to make a Buddhist bone trumpet. It took me completely by surprise, the topic, the author, the tone, the context of Buddhism, nothing fit together like I expected. It was the most absurd thing I ever read and I kept laughing, at the same time it felt utterly genuine. My curiosity piqued I read the other less bizarre articles from the author about Buddhism and life in general. It dawned on me that my attempt at completely controlling my life had, in fact, caused me to lose control over it. The process of learning to accept unpredictability and open myself to the world, that started the evening I read that article, was by no means always this fun, but looking back boy was it worth it.

[1] https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/kangling-chod

Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

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Post by decasteve »

The Groklaw farewell post: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175

Given the circumstances of the Snowden revelations, I was struggling to articulate how I felt about privacy, the chilling effects of surveillance, and making sense of it all in terms of who I am, where I come from, and how I make my livelihood. That farewell post, along with introducing me to the writings of Janna Malamud Smith (Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life), helped shape and define my perspective on privacy.

Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

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Post by beeboop »

https://medium.com/personal-growth/travel-is-no-cure-for-the...

When I have anxiety and unhappy moments in my life, I feel stuck. My natural inclination in these moments is to run. To get away, to be somewhere new, do something new, just get the eff away from wherever I am. I frequently felt that traveling and being a digital nomad would cure this problem and I would never feel that way, but the article above outlines why that isn't the case. Our problems follow us everywhere, and just because I'm eating sushi in tokyo in some cool hole in the wall doesn't mean I won't dread and have anxiety.

I am very grateful for the traveling I've done, which is a fair bit more than a lot of Americans. But in addition to that blog post it has helped me realize it isn't the cure to anything.

The article is sort of dumb and probably doesn't resonate with everyone. But it helped me

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