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Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?

#31

Stop eating processed sugar(s), white flower and meat. Learn to let go of opinions I am attached to and become open to alternatives faster (it is actually a body trick). Embrace myself fully with all my “defects”.

What is white flower? Carbs?

No, I think he's just referring to refined flour. Carbohydrates can also be found in whole grains, legumes, fruits, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?

#33

Stop eating processed sugar(s), white flower and meat. Learn to let go of opinions I am attached to and become open to alternatives faster (it is actually a body trick). Embrace myself fully with all my “defects”.

For the last week I've been making a conscious effort to only eat foods with no sugar. It turns out, this is way easier said than done. It seems like this limits your diet only to vegetables and meats (or meat substitutes). Things I would've never expected with sugar nutritional facts. Things like whole wheat loaf bread, plain unflavored yogurt, and cottage cheese. One would think they would have sugar-free options i…

Sugar is in bread and yogurt and cheese naturally.

It's required for the fermentation process to happen. The real concern IMO is sugar added. This should be pretty easy to find for cheese and yogurt, for bread you might have to get into homemade / high quality sourdough (real sourdough) to not have sugar added.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?

#34

Stop eating processed sugar(s), white flower and meat. Learn to let go of opinions I am attached to and become open to alternatives faster (it is actually a body trick). Embrace myself fully with all my “defects”.

For the last week I've been making a conscious effort to only eat foods with no sugar. It turns out, this is way easier said than done. It seems like this limits your diet only to vegetables and meats (or meat substitutes). Things I would've never expected with sugar nutritional facts. Things like whole wheat loaf bread, plain unflavored yogurt, and cottage cheese. One would think they would have sugar-free options i…

The natural sugars found in dairy and fruits are much different for your body than refined sugars.

I avoid refined sugars, but my diet contains a lot of sugar from (plain, with cut up bananas) greek yogurt, milk and kefir.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?

#37
For me it's been to stop trying to learn software development just because it's hip and there are a lot of jobs in it. I just really could not care less about it. It's let me spend more time on things I do care about like hardware development and industrial design. If I can't physically touch something I don't care about working on it.

Oh, and meditation, L-Theanine, and taking walks outside during work breaks.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having friends that did this you would be surprised how much of it was mined away. My friend bought some early and lost it all do to mining.

What do you mean?

So in the beginning you could mine bitcoin on a computer but as the price went up to continue mining and pay for power you need better hardware. I believe he just set up the machine to autopay the electricity bill as it mined so he essentially lost his bitcoins paying the bills. Basically there was no payout for mining on the same hardware as time went on.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?

#39
I wish I had known when I was younger that a lot of the people who shoot down ideas, minimize your creativity, and say "that's impossible" aren't smarter than you. They're just more insecure.

It's easier to say no to everything and look like a genius, then to say "I wonder...", and try, and fail, and try some more -- and perhaps (who knows?) actually be a genius. With all of the concomitant messiness and failures and actual real life kept in the mix.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?

#40

I wish I had known when I was younger that a lot of the people who shoot down ideas, minimize your creativity, and say "that's impossible" aren't smarter than you. They're just more insecure. It's easier to say no to everything and look like a genius, then to say "I wonder...", and try, and fail, and try some more -- and perhaps (who knows?) actually be a genius. With all of the concomitant messiness and failures and…

>Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

― Steve Jobs

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