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Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
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Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
#421: Kids. My wife and I waited to get married, and then were part scared after we got married, and part selfish and wanted freedom to play and travel, so we waited more. I don't regret our adventures at all, but after we had kids, I realized my fear was unfounded and we still had a lot of freedom to play and travel. 2: Startup. I wanted to start my own business my whole life, and I waited to try until I had enough of…
Is there some factor you can share that allowed you still to enjoy your “freedom” even after having kids? I share that same fear.
Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
#43I've been practicing yoga for about 4 years now, and I'm amazed at how positively it's impacted my other sports (climbing, snowboarding) as well as my mental well being. Also excited that this is a form of exercise I won't "age out of".
Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
#44Moving from the suburbs to the city. Turns out that buying you way out of an hour-long 3-segment public transit odyssey is actually a great use of discretionary income. It was also basically budget-neutral when I sold my car.
Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
#45I've got two: buying a house and going back to grad school. For buying a house, I latched onto the idea that I needed a 20% down payment so I wouldn't have to pay for mortgage insurance so I was trying to save like crazy. Meanwhile, the property values were going through the roof and I realized that I'd always be chasing that 20%. I sat down and ran some numbers with a mortgage lender and that made everything a lot c…
For going back to grad school, was this a masters or phd or mba or something else?
Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
#46Better posture. It's really easy to dump all your weight into a rounded back with your head reaching super far forward. But if you are mindful about your posture, you can help prevent lower back injuries.
Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
#47Turning off email notifications on my phone. Finally pulled the trigger when I was relaxing on a Friday night and getting work emails. It’s usually more efficient to deal with email only once per day anyways.
Solid advice. So glad I did this a few years ago. I was spending way too much fragmented time pulling my phone out every time I got an e-mail. Then if it wasn't something I needed to deal with right now, I often forgot about it (and never responded).
Now I only use e-mail on my laptop. I do have it installed on my phone, but it is only used when a real priority comes up.
Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
#48Hatha yoga.
Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
#49Lifewise: Adopting a dog (suspect next one will be quitting smoking when I finally muster the willpower to do it)
Techwise: Moving away from piles of hacked up bash scripts and fully embracing an 'infrastructure as code' mindset (and the associated tools)
Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
#50Wearing earplugs at night. Vastly improved my quality of sleep. I use a vibrating watch to wake me in the morning.
I wear earplugs when commuting in the bus. I take a city bus that drives 80 km/h on the highway and the noise is deafening. If you'd work in that environment, ear protection would be mandatory.
I can't imagine how awful it feels to wear cheap earbud headphones in that noise, yet most passengers do.