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Ask HN: You've got one month, what's your challenge?

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Re: Ask HN: You've got one month, what's your challenge?

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Post by votr »

foobarbax123 wrote: post #4

Find a better place to work. Just started as a software engineer, fresh out of college. I come home and I am constantly learning, which I enjoy, go to work and introduce new ideas and am shot idea not because of my ideas but beucasue im a newbie. Over the past couple of month has eatten away at my confidence and starting to just blow it off. :(

Read The Originals; in particular, the chapter on the CIA agent.

Yeah it sucks, but if you insist on the security of a larger company (my assumption), that's how it works.

Re: Ask HN: You've got one month, what's your challenge?

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Post by elnado »

Ugh, regardless of what we say we wish to do on this post, what I'm sure many of us lack is external motivation to do it. One app to help solve that is called Spar, developed by a friend of a friend (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spar!-get-better-at-stuff/id...). You set a goal with your friends, e.g. read a chapter every day, and put 20$ or so in the "pot". Whoever does the best at meeting the goal, gets the pot, and if you slack on your goal you lose the money.

Re: Ask HN: You've got one month, what's your challenge?

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Post by dyim »

* Get 100 active customer support agents on Panel Ninja [www.panelninja.com]

* Send cold emails to 1,000 potential customers

* Cut 15 seconds off my mile time

* Run 4 experiments to iterate on the cold email process

* Watch the Eagles beat the Giants, Falcons, Seahawks, and Packers :)

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