Ask HN: What are your best life hacks? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your best life hacks?

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Post by fullmoon » Wed, Mar 16, 2011, 9:31 AM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #102

listic wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember: not everyone needs to lose weight and/or cut their calories.

Almost everyone should cut their sugar/artificial sugar intake at least. I'm quite skinny and am working on gaining muscle, I don't want to lose weight, but for the last two weeks I've abstained from soda, candy and white carbohydrates (wheat, pasta, spagetti). It has made a huge difference on my energy level, feeling of well being (every day is just "better") and skin quality. Saturday is my cheat day where I'm allo…

So you enjoy the four hour body?

Re: Ask HN: What are your best life hacks?

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Post by xtrycatchx » Thu, Mar 17, 2011, 2:43 AM UTC

rodh wrote: post #65

My trick for remembering names: When I meet someone new, I try and think of someone else I know with the same name (a friend, famous person, etc.), and picture the two standing next to each-other. With unique and foreign names I try and thing of an object or animal that sounds like that name. Sometimes I've had to get a bit more creative, like associating my Nepalese acquaintance Badu with Fred Flinstone (yabba dabba…

my strategy is after a person had mentioned his/her name, I'm gonna recite it 3 times. it works for me.

Re: Ask HN: What are your best life hacks?

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Post by pmb » Thu, Mar 17, 2011, 11:46 AM UTC

When giving a high-five, watch the other person's elbow and not their hand.

Re: Ask HN: What are your best life hacks?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 17, 2011, 8:41 PM UTC

cosmok wrote: post #46

I have forced myself to stop checking mail, facebook, time, etc. on my mobile after I have decided to rest. I have slept better since then.

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Re: Ask HN: What are your best life hacks?

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Post by combiclickwise » Thu, Mar 17, 2011, 8:42 PM UTC

who read this bottom up? Thats one tip from me

read the last page of a newspaper/mag first

Re: Ask HN: What are your best life hacks?

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Post by combiclickwise » Thu, Mar 17, 2011, 8:43 PM UTC

lothar wrote: post #157

Rejection Therapy. Seriously. You meet more people, get more stuff and lose the ego. I find I'm a lot friendlier and social because of it: http://www.rejectiontherapy.com

I agree

Re: Ask HN: What are your best life hacks?

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Post by MBlume » Fri, Mar 18, 2011, 1:14 AM UTC

danilocampos wrote: post #30

Eliezer wrote: post #29

Sitting next to another person while writing increases my writing productivity by at least 400%. In retrospect it took me way too long to break down and try this. My shot at immortality costs me $120/year for membership in the Cryonics Institute and $170/year for $250K of 10-year term life insurance of which $50K goes to CI. I lost 20 pounds on Seth Roberts's fixed-point diet (aka the "Shangri-La diet") and gained 10…

> An awful lot of the rationalists I know have moved to open relationships. Why?

In my case, this is why: http://lesswrong.com/lw/xl/eutopia_is_scary/3f8u