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Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by itake »

bodhi_mind wrote: post #321
nwiswell wrote: post #284

Powerlifting. Solitary and meditative if you want it to be; social and uplifting if you don't. It's healthy in a variety of ways (including bone density; physical activity; higher BMR and glucose metabolism; improved cardiovascular function). Also being strong is useful surprisingly often. Unlike many things in life, your progress is almost entirely dependent on your consistency and the effort invested, with the exce…

I just began the 5/3/1 strength training method. I’d like to use gymnastic rings for most of my accessory work to try and get a nice balance of strength and flexibility.

I tried 5/3/1 in college and I after week 4, I felt like you need to be juicing to keep up with it.

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Post by thimabi »

Blogging in multiple languages.

I’ve launched many blogs over the years, but they were mostly a hobby and consistency was lacking. My goal is to change that now, by writing every day about some things that interest me while improving my skills in multiple languages.

It’s been roughly two months since I began and this is something that truly inspires me at the moment. Everyone can benefit from writing down and sharing one’s knowledge from time to time.

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Post by hypertexthero »

Drawing with pencil on rough paper every morning.

Finding and listening to good music while working on my own first EP.

Writing about video games and whatever comes to mind on my website, as well as playing old classics, indies, and AAA giganto-games.

Writing to friends regularly.

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Post by hahahacorn »

Running.

I got the bug about 12 weeks ago. I had never ran longer than 1.5 miles continuously 12 weeks ago. Now I’m planning my next Sundays long run. 12.5ish miles.

Im a heavy guy. My heaviest was 270, but I’m down to 220 now. I hated running my entire life. But I finally figured out how to run pain free and now it’s the thing I look forward to everyday.

It’s also tremendously rewarding to see such rapid improvement. When I first started I ran a 38 minute 5k, and 10 weeks later I ran a 25:44. I’ve almost improved my 1mi time from 8:30 to 6:30. Signed up for a marathon a couple weeks ago and gave myself 6 months to train.

Sub 4:30, here we come

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Post by itake »

sotix wrote: post #294
philip1209 wrote: post #251

Low-plastic living. I read a book by the world's first zero-waste restaurant, Silo. The book got me thinking about how different our lives would be if oil were expensive. "Pretend oil is really expensive" is a good proxy for doing things that are "eco-friendly." Since reading the book, I've tried to eliminate single-use plastic from most of my life. It's incredibly hard. Everything from my socks to my vegetable packa…

I have been doing this for about 2 years now. Got a few glass mason jars that I fill up with items like rice and nuts from the bulk bin at the grocery store. Peanut butter and jelly both come in glass jars. I get just about everything else from a local farm share where the items are not packaged in anything. It’s nice not dealing with plastic with my food. I used to throw so much of it away. Now most of my food waste…

My understanding is glass causes higher levels of carbon emotions b/c it is heavier to transport [0].

If you are re-using the jars, then that would have a lower impact, but if you're buying jarred butter and jelly, you're making the problem worse.

[0] - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230427-glass-or-plastic...

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Post by UpAndOut »

Timoha wrote: post #76

Currently have some free time between jobs to explore what actually makes me passionate, so threads like this are really useful to get inspired! Been starting various projects to quickly figure out what I like and don’t like. Realized that I miss working on highly technical projects after working on consumer apps for a couple of years. So as a result been revamping my resume and planning my next steps in my software…

I'm a math student with a similar desire to learn more about these topics. I've asked around at my university about forming a study group around the following courses (which I myself would really like to study), but there seems to be little interest: Stanford CS143; MIT 6.824; MIT 6.001 .

Would you like to collaborate on something along these lines?

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Post by dan_quixote »

Learning Korean to better communicate with my GFs family and take advantage of _finally_ having real motivation to learn another language.

I'm really enjoying having a different type of challenge than I'm used to. Mostly approaching it with Duolingo and Anki vocab cards with moderate success so far. We both have our own careers, kids, various responsibilities...so I don't get much time to practice with her. And practicing memorization at the end of a long day is tough, so I'd love to hear any tips you all may have to improve my memorization techniques and mnemonics.

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Post by jader201 »

dolmen wrote: post #239
politelemon wrote: post #18

Games. I've been forcing myself into productivity for too long because that is the thing to do. I recently built a gaming pc, picked some jrpgs, and I'm having a blast. There are entire franchises and worlds for the exploring. There are amazing rich stories and history and beautiful soundtracks that I'm living through right now. My wishlist grows by the day as I discover new tales.

Bought a SteamDeck. I haven't play video games so much for the last 20 years as in the last 2 months.

I dunno, I was a fairly early preorder, and have been quite underwhelmed with it. It does what it’s supposed to do, but there are just way too many games in my library that don’t really work well with it, and/or are just overall much better with keyboard/mouse.

Maybe I’m not the target audience. I also play console games, so most of my library are games that don’t overlap with console (so games that are probably designed for keyboard/mouse).

I played it for a bit, and there are definitely some good games on it (I finally beat Portal on it), but I just haven’t found any games that make me want to break it back out.

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