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Getting professional help for everything. Speaking, singing, powerlifting, acting, etc. I enjoy learning on my own but having a good coach can accelerate my progress and catch bad habits.
Cool. Where have you found good coaches for these activities?
Cooking, Airbnb, Uber, working independently, pursuing physics seriously. Physics in particular has been oddly life changing. At some point I think we all look for some purpose or meaning in life. I found it in discovering how little I truly understood about our universe and how bizarre and illogical a universe we truly live in. The mystery and intrigue of our universe leaves me with that child like enthusiasm and in…
How did you go about learning this? I have had Feyman's lectures sitting on my bookshelf for well over a year now, and hope it won't always be in my "someday" bucket.
After that I turned to more 'big picture' stuff to try to at least get a survey of the breadth of knowledge. Like you mention the Feynman Lectures are great for this. You can also find them online [1] which may be more convenient. "A Brief History of Time" is also a phenomenal big picture look at cosmology, which is my current primary interest.
Perhaps the best resource of all, and what I'm currently working through, is Leonard Susskind's "The Theoretic Minimum." I first saw this as a book. It's essentially a physics overview intended for those with a solid mathematical background, but without much formal education in physics. The book is excellent, an even better resource for this is the site [2] for it. It has extensive coverage and lectures on all major topics. The only downside is the lack of questions or material to test your understanding.
Ultimately, I think the most important thing is to find something that draws you in. From there everything is easy. Take a weekend sometime and really dig into something that fascinates you. Time dilation in general, the twin paradox, black holes and their funkiness at the event horizon, the two slit experiment in quantum mechanics, etc. These are all things with massive amounts of information available that can really draw you in.
[1] - http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ [2] - http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses
Marriage. She is my everything, and though as a GF she was that too, marriage is just deeper . Many of my single/unmarried friends don't have the trust and support that I have. I try to tell them that 'pulling the trigger' is not with a gun aimed at your head, but more of the starter's pistol in a 3-legged-race; it's fun. Yes, we have issues, just like all humans. But as we have both grown and changed, holding each o…
I liken it to a sports team. You can enjoy wins, but when your team wins or loses, you savor it a lot more.
Marriage is not about having more stuff or winning in life. But you enjoy what you have more, and it absorbs the lows in life.
There's also a saying in entrepreneurship - you need a cofounder to get places because it keeps you emotionally fortified when things get bad. Marriage does that function. Marriage lets you bounce ideas off someone. You can do so with a girlfriend or regular friends, but it's not the same as sharing with someone who is equally invested in your life.
Quitting a job. Firing a client. Breaking up with a girl. Talking with recruiters I don't like.
It never gets better. Just cut it when there's enough evidence to support.
For me, it was budgeting my money with intention. YNAB happened to be the tool that worked for me, after many failed attempts with other products. I believe that my quality of life would have been significantly better if I had started those habits earlier in my money-earning years.
Same here. I thought budgeting was only for when money is tight, but it is amazing how much clarity and overview a budget gives you over your financial situation, and how it helps in attaining even larger goals. It’s just a shame that desktop YNAB isn’t developed anymore. I will hold onto YNAB4 until it falls apart.
You don't know how compounding works, unless you actually have some skin in the game and see it work.
Turning 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.
I've never understood why people started subscribing to work email on their personal phones to begin with. Why would you want to get work mail when you're not at work, and why would you want to use your own hardware to do it? I've never done that and nobody I've worked for has ever asked me to do that; my personal phone is for my personal communication.
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This. And occasionally also Melatonin (see https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin )
I tried Melatonin and it gave me weird vivid dreams. I didn't sleep as well - or as long. But it's still useful against jet lag.
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Can you elaborate on the last sentence? Serious question, unsure of the seriousness of statement.
His other post states: > I make $3000 a month committing cybercrime EDIT: AFAIK a decent threat hunter or RE can earn about 3x that legally in the US.