The best definition of depression I've read.
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Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
#92The 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.
Could you share some examples? :-) Thx.
Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
#93The 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…
What books or material on learning marketing would you suggest?
Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
#94https://retrochronic.com/
A primary literature review on the thesis that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical
Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
#95You life in weeks by Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
Highlights how short our lives actually are. This in turn is what gives our time value.
Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
#96https://sive.rs/slow
Made me realize that it's ok to be a slow thinker, and there is nothing wrong with me. It has it's own strengths and weaknesses. Whatever genetic lottery gave me I have to play with it
Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
#97I really want to understand how can a blog post have a major impact on your life?
What kind of life should it be that it is easily changed by random opinions of some random people...
Unless it is a blog post with a password to a huge Bitcoin wallet :)
Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
#98This blog post on dating. https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2018/05/25/models-a-summ... Alright, it's not really a blog post about dating , per se. It's more of a blog post about becoming the kind of person who maxes out their dateability, no matter what their starting physical/mental/spiritual condition. It's hard to explain what reading this post did to me. There are a few times in my life where I consciously dec…
It’s funny how people always try to conceptualize and talk about dateability when attraction is both subconscious and extremely ancient. The stuff we come up with is things that “make sense” yet there are exceptions all the time everywhere.
Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
MMM is life-changing in general!
I read his posts about the hedonic treadmill and general anti-car-dependence at the time that I was considering a (nicer) replacement for a car that had developed expensive problems. I ended up selling the car and we've been a one-car household ever since... despite the addition of our kid.
Could you share the specific article you mentioned about the hedonic treadmill and general anti-car dependence? It sounds very insightful, and I’d love to read it. Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
#100I really want to understand how can a blog post have a major impact on your life? What kind of life should it be that it is easily changed by random opinions of some random people... Unless it is a blog post with a password to a huge Bitcoin wallet :)
I had a lengthy response in my mind, but this attitude leads me to believe you probably won't find much value in it.
I'll just say that sometimes, someone can explain an issue or a concept in a way that really strikes you. Maybe it's a perspective on an important issue that changes how you view it, or maybe it's an idea that opens up an entirely new avenue of thought you hadn't considered.
Sometimes that random stranger can string words together to convey the right information to the right person that positively affects their life.