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Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by blinding-streak »

mr-wendel wrote: post #592
blinding-streak wrote: post #45

Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fuc…

Good on you, and may you find plenty of wind to keep that ship sailing. I'm totally with you on this. My extra two cents: generally refuse to answer "why" and the "how long" questions. My personal responses are "because I won the drinking game" and "not long enough". I find these to be more far more truthful and useful of answers anyway.

Great advice. Thank you.

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Post by blinding-streak »

jmcantrell wrote: post #664
blinding-streak wrote: post #45

Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fuc…

It's totally understandable if you don't want to answer this, but how did you know you had a problem? How did it fuck your life up?

What is the saying about going bankrupt? "Slowly, then suddenly"

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Post by maury91 »

I'm passionate about running. I started with it as a way to lose fat. In conjunction with diet, it worked flawlessly, and I continued to be passionate about it. Around a year and a half ago, I wanted to improve further, so I found a running coach and got better enough to compete in running events. The past Sunday, I competed in my first full marathon in Athens, placing in the top 3%

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Post by halfimmortal »

I'm currently passionate about the journey of becoming a full-time blogger. I was tired of working as a Head of Marketing for several years and wanted freedom of my time.

While I know how to generate relevant traffic, one of the top challenges that I've been tackling over the last couple of months is monetising the traffic. I've tried selling courses, ebooks, SaaS products through my content but I'm getting unpredictable sales once in a while. It's not been an easy journey, but it's so full-filling when I get a sale through my content. Highest of highs as well as lowest of lows. Right now, I'm just grinding with faith - this will work. 3 articles/week, non-negotiable.

Perhaps one day I will have a revenue-generating blog that surpasses my monthly salary when I was a Head of Marketing :)

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Post by bckr »

eslaught wrote: post #51

I spent my morning working on a science fiction novel. (I won't post more here, but you can find it through my profile if you're interested.) Are there any other writers in the house? On a completely unrelated topic, one of my earliest "internet" memories was wandering into open source communities and trying to figure out this CVS thing and connecting it to GNU Savannah so that I could download some code. Those were…

I'm also a writer. I've got a little near future sci fi I'm writing. Having done Nanowrimo a few times, I'd like to one day spend a month / season / year just writing. One day.

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Post by bckr »

Arun2009 wrote: post #597

I am obsessed about three related issues currently, though I am not making progress in any of them, being generally bogged down by life. (a) How do India's classical views of reality that mainly stem from its contemplative traditions relate to the modern view of reality that we know from modern science? Are the former just "spiritual" modalities - i.e., "mere" religions - that must give up their claims on having anyt…

This is fascinating. I hope to see where this goes. Build on!

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Post by bckr »

kevin_vanilla wrote: post #336

I'm passionate about creating a community of people who pursue long-term excellence in their jobs or vocation (whatever it may be) with extreme intensity, e.g. eating/sleeping right, deliberately practicing skills, etc. Please let me know if anyone is interested in joining :)

I'd like to know more. I am in a mastermind that fulfills a similar function.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by bckr »

HellDunkel wrote: post #376

For me it’s Werner Herzogs Movies. Techno music history and culture. Waiting for Breath of the Wild 2. Visual Design. Unreal Engine. Photogrammetry. Drawing with my kids. This may appear a bit „all over the place“ but i dug quite deep into the things above except for Werner Herzog as it takes some effort to convince my wife watching the movies.

I'm also looking forward to TOTK.

Would love to chat about techno music history. I only have a faint outline knowledge and would gladly accept a brain dump.

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