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Although some contradiction with the 7 habits of successful people (work on important but not urgent things). That said, I don't disagree with Buffett, but I do struggle with it :-)
It's complicated - if I hyper-focus and never succeed, I will just end up an extremely, extremely boring person. So there are definitely cons to that strategy.
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I have the same problem and my diagnosis is that is a symptom of not having a deep bond with any of those interests. I've deceived myself that the ease of discovery will automatically transfer to mastery. I realized in a world of abundant and instant knowledge, I've been applying the laws of scarcity: "I won't be able to do Y and Z if I spend too much on X". Hence the anxiety to get to the Y when doing X. But it's no…
+1 I find that a good rule to follow is to avoid "interesting" subject/articles/posts. If it is not also deep, insightful and genuinely educational, avoid spending time on "interesting".
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I used to really hate the idea of me living an ordinary life, but I think at some point I realized trying to do extraordinary stuff was stressing me out way too much, and now I’m hard at work being as ordinary as possible. I think my goals have shifted from providing the best life for myself in the future to providing the best life for my child in the future, and I seem to be completely at peace with that.
You seem to be equating "extraordinary" life with "providing the best life for oneself" and an "ordinary" life with "providing the best life for one's child". Is that correct? If so, I don't see why that should be.
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Whoa, this is awesome. (I mean that half-sarcastically in a "you must go and see, you won't believe it" kind of way.) I'll cherry-pick these comments, which I think have the best signal/flame ratio: > ... > this doesn't seem safe anymore. this stack has too many individuals with no oversight in charge > i really wish the javascript community would start seeing unnecessary tooling as a vulnerability > this happens so…
Whoa, this is awesome. (I mean that half-sarcastically in a "you must go and see, you won't believe it" kind of way.) It definitely inspires awe. I mean, what am I supposed to make of this? https://github.com/palantir/tslint/issues/4141#issuecomment-...
That did it; I fired off a report to GH, just to be sure. I decided some of my text veered somewhat off-topic, so didn't send the whole thing. Here's what I said, including the offtopic bit after the 2nd "---".
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Hi! You've probably gotten a few reports about this by this point, so this is just a redundant make-sure.
https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/1616 is a pull request that changed the license of a project with 11k stars and which (IIUC) is also a common Babel dependency. The license change basically extended the MIT to say "but this license expressly forbids the following random list of companies from using this" blah blah. (I don't think this person realizes GitHub is owned by Microsoft...) The rationalization was very political.
The whole debacle got reverted fairly quickly by https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/1633, and the user was removed from the project. Yay (and whew)!
The license in question can be found in the user in question's repo, https://github.com/jamiebuilds/license, and it currently has 53 stars. I think it only had 20-30 yesterday. :/
Today, I woke up to https://github.com/palantir/tslint/issues/4141#issuecomment-..., which is reasonably inflammatory.
I have no idea what gets done in situations like this, and will watch with great interest. I say this honestly; I found this over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17872475 while reading a _completely_ unrelated topic, I have no association/involvement/investment in/with the project.
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There are 1001 interpretations of course. Mine is that this person may be driving themselves into a frenzy of sorts with more and more outlandish actions. I hope I'm wrong! But unfortunately, because of the scale of the internet, the small number of people that are voicing their agreement with this person's views is large enough that it looks like this person has become completely convinced their mental models are accurate and well-founded.
On the one hand, the above is my rationalization for why I thought it might be a good idea to mute this user's account for a few days. I have nothing against them, but thought that maybe the chance to quieten down would mean they might not harm themselves or others, which I definitely would not want to happen.
On the other hand, I've realized that there's nothing to stop this user using email or Slack or whatever else to continue communicating so muting wouldn't have such an isolating (and hopefully calming) effect at all, and (as so often happens with banhammer situations) would instead probably rile them up and make them 1000x worse. So from a "quiet time" standpoint that wouldn't work at all. :(
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Same here. I'm hoping to retire by selling my current SaaS business (which uses vanilla ASP.NET/Web API/IIS) so I don't have to get back in the market and learn the new way of doing things.
I can totally sympathize - but there's a lot out there, and more than one way to do things - especially on the web. That's what makes it such a great platform! Would you want to code in your retirement, or do you plan on hanging up your keyboard?
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Seems you are suffering from what a lot of Japanese married man have, no one gives a shit about your problems except that you bring back the bills. There is a reasons people don't even date anymore here. Take some time for yourself and don't stop hustling.
Why don’t they date? Just curious.
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"Where Buffet lets lower priority tasks slide or delegates them they still get done by his employees. If you do it then your house is going unmaintained or a relationship is getting neglected etc." Perhaps that's the lesson. I'm reminded of the startup aphorism "You don't have to be good if you're great." It's really a statement about market dynamics. If you are "great" (the monopoly provider of a service, asset, or…
>And yes, that means that your house is going unmaintained and your relationships are getting neglected. So what? Your relationships and the state of the environment you maintain for yourself are important. Together, they likely have more impact on your long term happiness and physical and mental health than any kind of ability “to take advantage of these market dynamics”.
I don't like the new way of doing things. Kubernetes, node, react, terraform... Everything is more complicated and also more fragile. I feel like the software world is collectively mad and I'm sitting on the outside asking "wtf is going on?" Or maybe I'm the crazy one.
If you are then you aren't the only one. A lot of this stuff seems to spill out of companies like Google or Facebook and I'm sure it makes sense at their scale. For most of us we just don't have the same problems and are probably better off avoiding it.