Sleep Get good sleep. At least 8 hours everyday. Get a good mattress. A good sleep makes a happy life.
I misread that as "Get a good mistress", which is also good advice.
Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?
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#242* Facebook has been the best dating site for the last 15 years
* Sites like HackerRank, Codility, etc. So fun.
* https://teachyourselfcs.com/
* Loop Habit Tracker (Android app)
* raylib
* Anki (thanks, HN)
* Queal
* Virtual desktops, took me way too long to start using them, lolsob
* The secret clouds area in 6-2
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#243You are the sum of your habits . I've always had "sort-of passable" ones, but they were never chosen by design, only by what had accreted with time. I had played with some systems and apps, but nothing had really worked until I took the time to write out in excrutiating detail what I would be doing for every minute of my morning and evening. At first I had to follow my schedule, but that didn't last long. With the bi…
Read and fully implement Getting Things Done by David Allen. It’ll free up your mind even more.
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#244I've spent a ton of time as a developer trying to make money from various side projects and businesses. So most of my top "wish I'd discovered this earlier" list revolves around tech+business stuff: * Strategy #1: Charge more. patio11 has been shouting this from the rooftops for years, but it didn't sink in until after I started Indie Hackers[0]. If you charge something like $300/customer instead of $5/customer, you…
This is exactly what I was looking for. Mom's test purchased and going to read and implement the same.
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#245For me Awarness book by De Mello, Anthony has been life-changing and I wish i discovered it earlier in life.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any recommendations? I’ve read a ton of Arthur C. Clarke in my teens, I’d love to branch out.
Andy Weir - The Martian . Possibly the most well researched science fiction book I've ever read. Well worth reading even if you've seen the movie, since that leaves out about half the things that go wrong and the large majority of the technical details. Andy Weir - Artemis . Weir managed to figure out a way for a city on the moon to make economic sense, while physics makes it almost impossible. Neal Stephenson - Seve…
Artemis was a poor showing. Felt like it was written by an angsty teenager. Full credit to The Martian, though.
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#247Hard Sci-fi. Holy crap it just overdelivers. In addition to entertainment, a way to take my mind off things, it also delivers context to daily life and keeps me focussed on trying to deliver something truly worthwhile.
Any recommendations? I’ve read a ton of Arthur C. Clarke in my teens, I’d love to branch out.
I would recommend Collapsing Empire by Scalzi. Here is the blurb:
Our universe is ruled by physics and faster than light travel is not possible -- until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, around other stars.
Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It’s a hedge against interstellar war -- and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.
The Flow is eternal -- but it is not static. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of humanity. When it’s discovered that The Flow is moving, possibly cutting off all human worlds from faster than light travel forever, three individuals -- a scientist, a starship captain and the Empress of the Interdependency -- are in a race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse.
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#248I wish I had discovered interval training and olympic lifting earlier.
For those wanting a good starting program for lifting check out “Stronglifts 5x5”.
To learn form of complex lifts of squats or deadlifts, check out “So you think you can deadlift/squat” on YouTube.
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#249I wish I'd discovered writing "Morning Pages" a lot earlier.
I've been doing it for the last year, and it's helped me figure out much better solutions to so many issues in my life, than I would have without the calm, reflective thinking that writing for 30 minutes each morning brings.
Can't recommend it enough.
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#250- Setting 3 daily goals every morning. - Budget/money planning. - The power of writing things done to make them happen.
The power of writing things done to make them happen. Can you explain your process?
Sorry I meant "down"!
I write everything down. Purchase decision, budget planning, daily goals, or even meeting agenda.
It is so simple that it's hard to believe how much impact it has.
I believe it takes away all the mental energy you have to put to process things in your mind. And somehow it gives some sort of value and priority to your plan when you write it down. It quickly becomes a discipline and works against procrastination.
One of those things that you always hear it, yet you can't believe it until you try it.