https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-y...
My advice would be to not take any claims of "harsh truths" as gospel.
Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
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#52ADHD - A Lifelong Struggle
https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html
This article made me question if the author was describing my life rather than their own, so I went and got checked for ADHD. 2 years, a diagnosis, and a medication regime later, I'm absolutely fucking slaying it and it was this article that sparked the change.
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#53Meditations on Moloch: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Thank you. The best thing I've read this year, easily.
However, halfway the post instead of going all metaphysical and try to create a garden, isn't the logical conclusion that individual gains in the rat race trump any grand plan you might have? Is it about the balance between being the best rat and finding a community to create a garden? If you garden by yourself, isn't that just being a rat with extra steps?
Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the link. That’s a great reminder for how to live.
Living in a car and eating dog food? Maybe I'm too tired and missed the point, but usually when I read things about living more simply and not keeping up with the Jones, it's presented in a more romantic way than sleeping in the back of a $1,000 car and dog food. Is the point to make the reader feel better about the stress they have, because they don't want the stresses of the alternative?
read between the lines
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#55Inbox Zero: https://www.43folders.com/2006/03/13/philosophy
I don't have time to read it right now, but on the topic, does anyone know easy ways to script directing e-mails? I have used filters in Gmail, but they are annoying to create and maintain. Would prefer to use JavaScript to direct where an e-mail should go to or whether it should grab my attention or not.
Personally I'm against using any automation (aside from spam filtering) to keep your inbox clean. If I see emails I don't want, I delete them on the spot. If I see those emails frequently enough, I unsubscribe from their feed or mark as spa, if that's not possible. Over time, unwanted emails should go down, which will convert your inbox into a to-do list of sorts (if it's there, it needs to be actioned).
Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a great article, but arguably the world doesn’t have to be this way. We don’t have to accept this as the status quo. Learning to both realize this that this article is true then reject this as “ok” and acceptable is the next step. Sure, other people might not care about all these things, but you can make the world less shitty if you care about those things.
It really does. How should the world change so that your "thoughts and prayers" make meaningful impact? They are meaningless things that religious people tell themselves make an impact, when it's the people handing out food that stops starvation not "thoughts and prayers". Why the hell should I hire you when you want to learn Python but haven't done anything, when I can find people who can show they understand the fu…
> Why the hell should I hire you when you want to learn Python but haven't done anything, when I can find people who can show they understand the fundamentals by making a hobby project or went to night school?
Or, paraphrasing a quote whose source I don't remember: "What's important is not what you can do; it's what you can prove."
So even if you're actually a Python expert, it doesn't matter unless you have something to show for it; cue job interviewers ghosting candidates who don't have projects that are public and open source.
Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
#57https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-y...
This article strikes me as a deliberately over-the-top response to rampant 2000s/2010s narcissism. I wouldn't take anything it says as 100% true.
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#58https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...
As someone who FIREd, his assumptions of 5% real returns and 4% SWR may not hold in the future. He himself also retired with a free and clear home and a free and clear rental home, which meant he didn't have to tap into his capital, not to mention $400k annual blog revenue shortly after. But generally I enjoyed his articles over the years and a high savings rate combined with investing is always a wise choice.
I never thought about FIRE in those terms. Your comment (unintentionally?) makes FIRE sound like a self-help trend that primarily makes money for self-help gurus.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think at least some of the battlefronts talked about by this blog post were started by the ultra-wealthy in the US to draw the peasants attention away from Occupy Wall Street. That was the last "big thing" before identity politics took center stage. It pits us all against each other instead of pitting us against the rich. China and Russia are likely responsible for some of these battlefronts, too.
I think they predate that by a lot, and I don't think it was anything to do with the ultra wealthy. IMO people talking about political correctness often miss an important point though: that what's believed to be acceptable is largely derived from an actual philosophy that is changing over time, which develops and evolved as society processes new ideas in the background. That processing happens online and in communiti…
Respectfully, I think your take that this "has nothing to do with the ultra wealthy" is exceptionally naive.
We know with absolute certainty that much worse atrocities happen in places like Russia and China. What makes you think that the US is immune to that kind of thing?
We don't have quite the same problems and they aren't so obvious.
But every once in a while, the curtain comes down and you get to see how things really are.
Wide-scale domestic surveillance. The US government chasing so hard after people like Snowden and Assange. Bernie Sanders being completely ignored by the Democratic Party in 2016. Epstein being mysteriously killed.
The US does not openly speak about its corruption, but there is plenty of it anyway.
While we are a democratic country don't forget that democracy is something you fight for every day. And if you look around, when is the last time there was a serious fight put up for democracy?
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#60The Almanack of Naval Ravikanth. https://www.navalmanack.com/ I count Ravikanth as one of my gurus. From working as a professor in a medical school to starting up a small microSaaS, I attribute it all to Ravikanth who condensed everything one needs to know into a few tweets, followed by its expansion on his podcast. Now, I preach seeking of Specific Knowledge to all my students and the principle of leveraging bots th…
I would have to second this. There are some ideas in their that once you unpack them, you can't unsee them.