There is a life force (energy) that's powering every living thing on this planet.
Is it sunlight, perchance?
That would exclude fungi at least.
Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?
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#132* All the stuff that's important to you can disappear in a few hours and there is likely nothing you can do about it
* Trying harder will not always change someones mind about things and may make stuff worse
* You need to rely on and trust and respect yourself first before others due to the above
* Mindfulness, exercise and nature can be your best friends, don't ignore them
* Keep in touch with old friends and make new ones when you can you never know when you might need them
* Reading is good, specialization is for insects, be good at lots of stuff and don't be too upset if you don't feel you can't master anything
* Be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?
#133That frontend web development is usually executed extremely poorly. The HN crowd is different, however, your average agency is still using processes that pre-date the iPhone, hiring average 'designers' that create pretty pictures with placeholder copy, average frontend developers that have little interest in accessibility and evolving web standards and project management that keeps backend developers in the dark, all tasks sliced and diced because it is 'agile'.
This represents great opportunity as it is 4x quicker developing with content and the customer first. Clients need not be infuriated by expense, lack of progress and the agony of getting their online business making money.
Biggest discovery is thanks to 'Lighthouse' - it seems most average websites think it is okay to bundle a megabyte of scripts with a page and ten to twenty thousand lines of CSS, 97% of which is not used.
Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?
#134After 8 years I've finally come to the end of struggling with working remotely.
I'm going back to 2 hour daily commutes.
The flexibility of remote work can be a real problem. It causes arguments because you don't have a 3rd party to blame for when you have to be in work or not.
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#135Having started a business/startup solo, gained traction and moved to a company with all my IP and experience (into a senior equity bearing role) I have learnt more in one year than the rest of my 40 years.
However, I’d distill it into:
Our lives are our own making. We are given where we landed on this earth but the rest is up to you and how you deal with the challenges.
Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?
#136It's recognised that money doesn't change you but it amplifies who you are. I've realised intelligence or ability is the same - it amplifies what you can do but doesn't itself change you.
Living in Scotland, vitamin D daily really helps mood.
There are people who lie and manipulate. Don't be naive and dismiss or justify the incongruities.
Investigating incongruities will always teach you something, as there's an unknown reason for the incongruity.
Problems need holistic solutions - e.g. sorting posture by increasing muscular strength isn't enough if you also need to work on loosening muscles and increasing flexibility. Hence the need to persevere more.
A lot of people struggle with keeping the bigger picture in mind (e.g. thinking about the user when designing a part of a system).
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#137Before we got married, my wife said she would move with me to California if I ever got a good offer from a major tech company. This year I got an amazing job offer, and my wife threw a giant fit, told me she's not coming, and said "I took a gamble and lost. I never thought you would actually get an offer". Now she's refusing to get a job, wants me to continue paying for our house that she's living in on the east coas…
I would say that even if she has a 180 degree change of mind and wants to go to the Bay Area, you should still opt for divorce. You have uncovered that your partner is childish and irrational.
I will also say this since no one else is: now is the best time to get divorced from a financial perspective, as your earnings are about to go up. Get out now and find someone you want to be with for decades to come...
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#138I spend way too much time doing pointless things on my phone (like this) and it's really hard to stop.
Decide on some things you would rather do with your time than waste it on pointless things like this. Allow yourself to do the pointless things only once you've done something less pointless with your time. Keep trying.
Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?
#139- Many well known people in tech are charlatans. - There is no integrity in keeping silent when witnessing wrongdoing, even when speaking out may harm your current business prospects. - Most "interesting" ideas in tech currently simply aren't. - "Software Craftsmanship" is a scam. - Programmers are far less logical than they would themselves believe. - Non-tech project managers in tech teams are beyond useless; they'…
Hey, can you elaborate on '"Software Craftsmanship" is a scam.'?
Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?
#140Some self-promo: I run a weekly newsletter with lessons gathered from HN https://lessonsofhn.com
Here are some things I learned in the past 12 months:
* economics are more useful to me than politics. Stop reading news on politics, but rather financial news
* my biggest flaws are lack of patience and a big ego. Was hard to see this even though most of my life problems originated from these two
* sleep is damn important
* knowing yourself is an illusion. You can have the feeling that you know yourself, but you'll be amazed how many things you can still learn about yourself.
* is very important to avoid resentment. This means talking or doing uncomfortable things, but is such a relief afterwards