Get some sleep. Do random things for the sake of doing them because it makes you happy. Fuck productivity!
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This. Also, I'd like to add: being kind to yourself.
How to be kind to yourself? I have heard this phrase before, but never able to figure out what it means!!
In your head don’t spend time going over how you could have done things better/differently. Initial evaluation is good when things could have gone better, but past a certain point you’re just beating yourself up and getting worse than nothing out of it.
If you beat yourself up mentally to much, it’ll make it harder to do anything, because you’ll be afraid of failure etc.
That’s partially how I think of it anyways.
Also, be realistic with your expectations.
Re: Ask HN: What would you like to say to your fellow HN readers?
#43What you build or what you say is far more important than how you build it or say it. Too many people get hung up on the code quality of their projects and the technical side rather than the whole content/promotion one, and end up building a very shiny ghost town as a result.
Same with writers, video makers, etc. People get so distracted by the language/readability/structuring aspect that they forget that actually talking about things people care about matters significantly more.
So stop getting sidelined by tech and formal structure, and focus that effort on things people want/need instead.