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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?
#42I think I've said this before but its 3 things that all end up having the same effect. 1) Meditation to get my mind in check 2) Fitness/Diet, making sure I'm at an appropriate weight and fitness level 3) Sleep, shouldn't require any explanation. Having these 3 things in check is the equivalent of 10+ IQ points. The last two items shouldn't require any explanation but Meditation is one that people often have issues se…
I was about to write my own reply, but you literally hit every point I was about to make.
There is one thing that I would like to add.
4. Task making/Goal setting- The domain of this MUST encompass your entire life. (Personal/Professional/Health/Hobbies/Relationships).
Try not to put an emphasis on professional/business things. Generally those have the highest priorities, and don't need as much active attention in this context.
Goals should start at 5 years out and work backwards to next week.
Every morning/ start of each week/start of each month- review your goals and allocate "hard time" to them.
Want to learn guitar? Good. Tomorrow at 3 o'clock go to the store and buy one. Don't research the best guitar manufacturer for weeks and eventually buy it, just ask the guy behind the counter his recommendation and buy it on the spot. Next week, Tuesday 6pm- Sign up for music lessons for every Wednesday at 6pm for the next 6 months. No exceptions. Do not let anyone or anything take that time slot away from you.
But you may say, I'm the only one that can do "X" task and I'm needed at that time slot every week. Then build fault-tolerance in that task. Either with multiple people knowing how to do what you do, through documentation or automation. Engineer a solution to your time problem.
Or if you're the founder of your startup, and you can't justify taking a 3 hour break once a week.
You're lying to yourself.
I highly doubt you are completing work at 100% duty cycle if you are working 60-80 hours a week. Getting a few hours a week of "you" time each week is a small time investment, for huge returns in more effective decision making for the rest of the week.
This may vaguely fall under meditation, but knowing that you are tangibly and actively working towards things that you value, will prevent you from getting "time depression".
Yes, I just made up that term. "Time Depression" as I call it, is doing the "same" thing day-in and day-out. As a result, you get depressed since you "feel" like you didn't accomplish anything.On paper, you closed 90 issue tickets last month and committed more code than anyone else on your team.If you did all that, and don't have a feeling of accomplishment. Then you need "you" time.
Now go buy that guitar.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
#43Realizing that other people aren't way more intelligent than me and i'm stupid. It's just a perception based on nothing more then them acting more confidently, because they had an upbringing that gave them more self esteem. When the time came to perform I always exceeded the expectations of those around me because I always beat myself up and told myself I was stupid and not good enough. The insecurity pushed me to always try harder but in the end I was better than I realized. I just one day had to let it go and realize those thoughts of not being good enough weren't real.
Another thing is stopping relationships with people that would belittle, insult or use me. I instead paid close attention to who was there for me and built me up. I gave those people 5x the attention and built a stronger relationship with them because thats who you want in your life. Quality friends > Quantity. If someone keeps blowing you off you aren't a priority in their life, and you should treat them the same.
Oo last one.
Ask that cute girl out, if you're reading this, I know you are more than good enough.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
#44I (at least partially) wish I didn’t spend so much time looking for my „true calling” (which I didn’t find), and just ground my way to early retirement in high paying jobs. The search made me a more interesting person, but without it, I could be retired already.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
#45I (at least partially) wish I didn’t spend so much time looking for my „true calling” (which I didn’t find), and just ground my way to early retirement in high paying jobs. The search made me a more interesting person, but without it, I could be retired already.
I decided quite early to separate calling and job, but tried to keep a balance between both. A part-time career is difficult too :)
I'm currently grinding an a 40h-week. My plan is to do it for a year for money and reputation and than find something part time, which sadly is quite difficult as a product owner/project manager. Maaaybe some start-up that doesn't want to pay full price :).
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could have bought 10000 btc for 50usd. I’m still crying myself to sleep some nights. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92.0 The reason I didn’t was because back then that was like half iirc of all btc and I was suspicious.
Horrible thing to say, but at least I feel a bit better now! Too bad I didn't hear about Bitcoin in 2010. I hadn't heard about it until like 2012.
I mined and threw away ~400 btc around 2010-2011 :(( ... twice
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
#47i3wm. I thought it couldn't be that much better, it just a window manager. Now it's hard to imagine using anything else. If you want to get started the long exhaustive way, start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1I63wGcvU4 .
Same, but with st[0] - besides being one of the few git repos I downloaded which compiled on the first try.
(I actually had the luck to hear about i3 when setting up my arch install for the first time, but hell yeah I agree on that).
[0]st.suckless.org
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It seems I misunderstood the question. Do Americans not use the term "white flour" for flour made from wheat with the bran removed?
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, I think he's just referring to refined flour. Carbohydrates can also be found in whole grains, legumes, fruits, etc.
It seems I misunderstood the question. Do Americans not use the term "white flour" for flour made from wheat with the bran removed?
That’s what I meant. Pure carbs, very fast to metabolize, very low nutritional value apart from the energy.