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Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Post by leesalminen »

firefoxd wrote: post #114

* Five co-founders are too many. * If you are working on someone else's crappy idea, think about working on your own crappy idea. * Call people you might need later when you don't need them. Or they tend to disappear when you do need them. * Learn about the stock market and invest right away. You'll make money, lose money, then understand money. * Build as many projects as time allows. It's nice to have the option to…

> * If you don't do the thing you want to do today, 5 years from now you'll remember and wonder how different your life would have been if you did.

Love this. Reminds me of Jobs’ Stanford commencement address and Bezos’ regret minimization frameworks. I try to live my life this way, though it’s not always possible.

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Post by beat »

Read a lot. I had largely fallen out of the habit of reading, in part due to attempting to switch to Kindle by using it on my iPad/iPhone. But the temptations of the Internet are right there all the damn time.

Last year, I went back to reading paper books, and it was a revelation. Suddenly, I could immerse myself again! And after a while of this, my spouse gave me her unused Kindle Paperwhite - all the advantages of ebooks, only without Internet access on the device. Easy to read in bed at night without keeping her up with a light, too.

I'd almost forgotten the pleasures of chewing through big, intense works of nonfiction, the richness and depth of book-level arguments of history, science, biography, and more.

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Post by pavel_lishin »

mseebach wrote: post #197
oldcynic wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You don't make friends at job The more general variation on this theme is : "Most of your friends aren't". They're drinking buddies, folks to talk to at $event and $hobby_club If shit meets fan most of them will disappear. There will be a few who turn out to be real friends. A few in each group will surprise you greatly.

It's easy to be cynical, but it's important to avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Of course you can make friends at work, but no, they're not going to be the kind of friends whose shoulders you can cry on when a relationship goes south, but if you can have a discussion about non-work matters, if you could imagine having them over for a backyard barbecue, "friend" still seems like a reasonable term. Even…

Not every friend has to be a best friend. If's fine to have acquaintances and drinking buddies.

Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Post by pavel_lishin »

97s wrote: post #192

Turn off the TV. Turn off all social media. Turn off any negative influences. Eat as healthy as you possibly can. Exercise, yoga, tai chi, or anything that gets you moving. Enjoy the benefits of all the time you thought you didn't have while having really good mental power because of your healthy diet and exercise. Live a good life.

> Turn off all social media.

Turn off Hacker News.

Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Post by beat »

noxToken wrote: post #228
DoubleGlazing wrote: post #207

For me I have learned that there comes a point when you need to work differently in order to protect your health and family well being. Big salaries are great, but when the price for that is massive amounts of overtime that takes you away from your family it just isn't worth it. Now I work for myself and I love it. Hobbies are vitally important to keeping you happy and healthy, don't neglect them. When you get a spee…

> For me I have learned that there comes a point when you need to work differently in order to protect your health and family well being. Big salaries are great, but when the price for that is massive amounts of overtime that takes you away from your family it just isn't worth it. >... >Family comes first, always. I didn't learn this in the past 12 months, but a recent event has definitely reaffirmed this: stick to y…

That's what I love about the companies experimenting with 32 hour four day workweeks. It's not just the depth of the day time that's less productive, it's the depth of the week. Who is as productive on friday as they are on monday? And who isn't more productive on monday after a three day weekend?

I figure the cost of those 8 hours is really 10%, not 20%... and much of that 10% is bought back with the increased productivity brought on by long weekends. I would love to work that way.

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Post by gerland »

firefoxd wrote: post #114

* Five co-founders are too many. * If you are working on someone else's crappy idea, think about working on your own crappy idea. * Call people you might need later when you don't need them. Or they tend to disappear when you do need them. * Learn about the stock market and invest right away. You'll make money, lose money, then understand money. * Build as many projects as time allows. It's nice to have the option to…

Do you have any no-bs sources to learn about stock investments? Right now it would be gambling for me.

Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Post by hutzlibu »

Letting go.

There are things that you really want and things that you think you want. The more you focus on the latter, the less likely it is that the things you really want and need, come to you.

But after I could let go of arbitrary wishes and ideas, the things I needed came easily.

Secondly, even in moments of intense emotional stress(like death of a close one) - never "don't give a f*". You still breath as natural as possible, you still try to find to keep your center, your equilibrium. Not also in those moments, but especially in those moments.

Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Post by tudelo »

DoubleGlazing wrote: post #225
kqr wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the van was in Hereville when concluding that that OP, being in Theretown, was speeding -- how reliable are their reports?

Exactly this. I brought in maps from three different mapping sources and loads of research papers on the subject of GPS, but the judge said it was irrelevant and found guilty. This is despite the fact that the prosecuting Garda could not produce the calibration certificate for the van. For challenging and losing my wife got 5 points instead of 3 for just paying the fine without a fuss. This situation hit me hard, mad…

Wow, I feel for you man. That's crazy. You should do a write up on the process. Maybe submit it to a paper, local or otherwise?
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