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Ask HN: What is the most exciting thing you have learnt this year till now?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting thing you have learnt this year till now?

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Post by _nalply »

ScarZy wrote: post #15
tracerbulletx wrote: post #5

I started searching for pasta recipes in Italian and it worked fantastically, feels like learning the things that will become a trend in english youtube videos 3 years from now. I feel like I've learned so many useful techniques and ideas that I can just improvise really really high quality pastas whenever I want now. It's fantastic.

Share some of said recipes, you smug dog! I always want to up my pasta game. I'm still arguing with my extending family about the amount of salt in the pasta water... baby steps

Camping pasta: Have Swiss egg helix pasta, exactly the right amount of water, some bouillon powder, triple concentrated tomato paste, pepper and a dash of cream. Cook till soaked up (takes 10 minutes). Serve with slices of gruyère.

(This is sacrilegous but done right it tastes very good and is simple to cook, you need only one pot and it is done quickly even on camping gas.)

Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting thing you have learnt this year till now?

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Post by SteveNuts »

That I in fact, DO have ADHD, and that's at least part of the reason I failed so miserably in high school, couldn't finish college, and struggle to finish tasks at work despite feeling highly motivated.

Not only that, treatment is working for me.

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Post by adamredwoods »

ativzzz wrote: post #16

I'm a new parent this year and I was not mentally prepared for it (lol is anyone?) For a few months, I regretted my decision to have kids almost constantly. It gnawed on me. Then I stumbled upon the regretfulparents subreddit. Seeing the posts was pitiful. I saw how destructive it is to our psyches to carry around regret and let it wear us down. I cringed seeing the posts, mostly because I felt the same way they did,…

The first 6 months are incredibly difficult, as there's nothing to do but cry and feed. It will never be perfect, but it gets better.

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Post by RiOuseR »

mabbo wrote: post #12

That I can survive being laid off. That emotionally, it won't crush me to find out my company decided I was in the 20% that wasn't needed anymore. That financially, my family can get by if I spend 11 weeks unemployed. That I can accept a job that pays significantly less than I used to make. I really did think that the entire experience was going to leave me the empty shell of my former self, that the mental toll woul…

> I no longer define myself purely in terms of my career.

I've been struggling with this. Any tips?

Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting thing you have learnt this year till now?

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Post by SteveNuts »

Gasp0de wrote: post #19
fredgrott wrote: post #10

That stacking stimulants is the wrong approach...instead stack weak stimulants along with herb MAO inhibitors to optimize output. My bias is that I have ADHD with anxiety mixed in. Best way to describe is that if one takes Adderall one gets a push pull effect where you are in focus robot mode whereas with this approach its a focus mode with whole environment awareness without the uncomfortable push pull effects.

I also believe I may have some form of ADHD, and I find this self-optimization idea where people start taking drugs to optimize their productivity a bit dangerous. Keep in mind that productivity for your job isn't everything that makes you yourself. I know quite a few people who took ADHD medication and became super good at their job at the cost of everything fun including their personal life. Sometimes it might also…

It's not just your job though, it creeps into everything you do and it affects you more than people without it realize.

Even if you want to get something done (house project, cleaning, making appointments) it's very difficult to complete these tasks due to the distractions you meet along the way.

It's like if you had a spotify playlist of 400 songs you really want to listen to, but by the time you hear the first 5 seconds of the intro, the song skips to the next one, ad nauseam, all day long, every day of your life.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting thing you have learnt this year till now?

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Post by the_only_law »

mabbo wrote: post #12

That I can survive being laid off. That emotionally, it won't crush me to find out my company decided I was in the 20% that wasn't needed anymore. That financially, my family can get by if I spend 11 weeks unemployed. That I can accept a job that pays significantly less than I used to make. I really did think that the entire experience was going to leave me the empty shell of my former self, that the mental toll woul…

I had the opposite experience. I thought I would easily survive a layoff, but now it looks not so likely.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting thing you have learnt this year till now?

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Post by anavette »

Likely trite, but: I learned that I'm continuously learning far more than I realize— but that if I don't log what I learn somehow (journal, notes, essays), I'm left with a far fainter sense of accumulation & a far weaker understanding overall.

Practically, I learned how to fully clean stainless steel pans (boil vinegar after cooking; baking soda scrub if really filthy).

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