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Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by TheAceOfHearts »

I've succeeded in improving my health through diet and exercise.

A few months back I started weight training and I've managed to build enough discipline to become someone who works out regularly. My longer-term goal is to try and exercise at least 15 minutes every day, because currently I can only manage between 4 to 6 days out of a week. The number of health benefits I've experienced already is so crazy that I feel incredibly foolish for having waited so long to start doing this.

My dietary changes have been gradual and they generally feel sustainable. At the beginning of this year I was overweight and today I'm a normal weight. I never would've imagined this of myself, but I've learned to love salads and have started eating them regularly.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by __blockcipher__ »

nikivi wrote: post #11

Most recent success and one that is ongoing is my focus and actual following through on completing my 12 daily habits. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/habits It includes core things like sleeping for 8 hours, exercising, eating wholefood plant based diet, drinking water, tea, focusing on one task at a time and setting and following through goals. As for goals, I am genuinely in love with my Focus board I mad…

At the risk of being a bit off topic, it cracked me up that "DMT Breakthrough" is listed as one of your monthly goals.

Since I'm already off topic, I've always found the binary "either I broke through or I didn't" notion to fall a bit flat. I've talked to friends who described a "breakthrough" experience that to me literally sounded like a very low strength DMT trip. And people have all these weird criteria like "oh if you saw beings it was a breakthrough".

Anyway, despite disliking the arbitrarity of the term, speaking personally out of 30-40 trips I would describe about 2 of those experiences as a breakthrough. For me the biggest recurring motif is watching a new type of space being created in my mind's eye, composed of twisting/interlocking hyperdimensional fabric of sorts. Everything is made of these fibers. On another trip, I was "tapped" on the head by a floating orb that proceeded to direct my attention to a hypercube in which it felt like I could see what felt like an infinite number of lower-order spaces (but still >= 4D if I had to put a number on it).

[/off topic rambling]

To bring it back on topic, I find your 12 daily habits really inspiring and much more "focused" and actionable (yet still flexible) than some of the more "standard" list of habits I've come across. Thanks for sharing :)

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by rglover »

foxes wrote: post #10
rglover wrote: post #4

Thank you for posting this! A recent success has been getting more video content out around my niche (developing a product): https://youtube.com/cleverbeagle How about you OP?

Recently, we understood some interesting mathematics and proved an interesting result. Also my running has picked up so I'm feeling really fit.

What sort of math? Academic/research or applied?

Nice job on running :) Do you have a specific routine or goals you try to hit?

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by jmstfv »

After many months of working on a product, I finally managed to (soft) launch it a few days ago. It definitely took way longer and turned out to be way harder than I expected it to be (it usually does).

Surprisingly, I really enjoyed working on the static site side of things even though it is dead simple: just good ol' HTML and CSS. No frameworks, no complicated builds, no third party trackers, and almost no JS. As a result, I managed to bring down the page load time to less than 500 ms (3kb when gzipped).

https://tryhexadecimal.com

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by nikivi »

__blockcipher__ wrote: post #52
nikivi wrote: post #11

Most recent success and one that is ongoing is my focus and actual following through on completing my 12 daily habits. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/habits It includes core things like sleeping for 8 hours, exercising, eating wholefood plant based diet, drinking water, tea, focusing on one task at a time and setting and following through goals. As for goals, I am genuinely in love with my Focus board I mad…

At the risk of being a bit off topic, it cracked me up that "DMT Breakthrough" is listed as one of your monthly goals. Since I'm already off topic, I've always found the binary "either I broke through or I didn't" notion to fall a bit flat. I've talked to friends who described a "breakthrough" experience that to me literally sounded like a very low strength DMT trip. And people have all these weird criteria like "oh…

That's interesting. I'm fascinated by psychedelics ever since I tried salvia, I learned just how strange consciousness is or rather our perception of reality. Salvia is so bizarre that it's impossible to put to words, the experience. It's also interesting how unlike other psychedelics it is, like LSD & tryptamines, it doesn't target the serotonin receptors but opioid.

I am not a believer in external entities or anything of that kind as I believe all these psychedelics do is show how powerful our brains are in constructing and reconstructing the raw input of the world. It's just so bizarre though that's all even possible.

Some interesting threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/avc7yc/i_cannot_str...

https://www.reddit.com/r/DMT/comments/ctwh0r/how_has_dmt_aff...

And this GIF is quite accurate in how salvia feels like if you can even describe it.

https://i.imgur.com/KbedrL4.gifv

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

rblion wrote: post #41

Cut out drinking, weed, meat, sugar, processed foods. Wake up every day around 5am and dive into deep work. Got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a flip phone. Deactivated Facebook, barely check Instagram anymore. Dropped about 25 pounds without working out much, feel great. Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me, saved a lot of energy and time. Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just refe…

First of all, many congrats. All these are no small accomplishments!

Very curious if you can expand on this one:

> Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me

It would be interesting for me to know how you define "parasitic", and what you did about it!

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by CameronNemo »

BookPage wrote: post #50
willismichael wrote: post #15

I started a very niche open source pet project to scratch an itch (I'm a musician that uses Linux, and I wanted a decent Linux native hall-style reverb plugin). Somebody from halfway around the world jumped in and built a GUI for it. Now a small handful of people from around the world rave about how much they love it. https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb

Cool project! I have a couple of questions: 1. Do you do your production in Linux? If so what hardware interfaces and DAW are you finding works for you? 2. Did you have audio programming experience before starting this project? I really want to learn more about audio signal processing but am not sure where to start. Thanks!

>hardware interfaces

Most USB interfaces can do class compliant audio, you can thank the popularity of the ipad for that one.

>DAW

Libre: LMMS, Ardour

Proprietary: Bitwig Studio, Harrison Mixbus

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by shhshahassa »

rblion wrote: post #49
manglav wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congratulations! What was your framework for prioritizing which changes to tacke first, and implementing these changes?

Thanks! Honestly, I just realized that life is short and most people go to their death beds without realizing their full potential because they are occupied with social concerns. Many people drop the quality of their life by living an unhealthy lifestyle that is disconnected from nature. This all really set in for me after my grandmother, who I was very close to, passed away in December after having a stroke in Novem…

Yet you have time to brag on hacker news haha
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