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Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

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Post by jefflombardjr »

liamcardenas wrote: post #4

Naval has a lot of good content. I would start with his tweet storm: How to Get Rich (without getting lucky): https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936?s=21

A couple of the tweets remind me of The Richest Man in Babylon , but I like how succinct this is.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

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Post by quickthrower2 »

sumitsrivastava wrote: post #21
liamcardenas wrote: post #4

Naval has a lot of good content. I would start with his tweet storm: How to Get Rich (without getting lucky): https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936?s=21

I read it right now. I feel enriched. Thanks.

A modern Tao

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

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Post by bobowzki »

hpvic03 wrote: post #14

Books on Stoicism. In particular, “A Guide to the Good Life” Some good stuff here: https://www.theschooloflife.com/

I second school of life. I don't know more about them than having watch their YouTube videos and they are surprisingly good.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

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Post by srik »

whalesalad wrote: post #26
rkho wrote: post #17

I like Aaron Swartz's Raw Nerve series: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve

Disclaimer: This is it’s a series of posts on how to get better at life written by someone that ended their own life.

Your disclaimer is a touch ad hominem isn't it

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

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Post by wtmt »

whalesalad wrote: post #26
rkho wrote: post #17

I like Aaron Swartz's Raw Nerve series: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve

Disclaimer: This is it’s a series of posts on how to get better at life written by someone that ended their own life.

Why is that a disclaimer and why does your comment sound like knocking on something good? If you haven’t watched the documentary “The Internet’s Own Boy” [1], check it out. The amount of harassment (mental and emotional) he faced could also bring most other people to take steps that they never would’ve imagined themselves doing.

It’s very easy to knock down others. But you haven’t lived his life, and you just cannot know how it was for him and what pushed him to take his own life.

Would someone put down any works by Ian Murdock (founder of Debian) because he also took his life?

I find these kind of criticisms, based on some actions of a person who otherwise contributed a lot, very silly and downright insulting in the meanest of ways.

Next time you want to write a disclaimer on Aaron Swartz, you could perhaps describe it as how the FBI and DoJ went too far and killed him in more ways than one.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy

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