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Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
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Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#22Cheesy, but I kissed a girl I had liked for two years and hadn't seen since we met for the first time. What did I learn? Sometimes things happen as you envision them.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly I've always dreamed about moving to a place with friendly hippie culture, but Silicon Valley doesn't sound like it. Nice to hear that it still exists.
I wasn't actually in Silicon Valley. I didn't really realize it was lacking until I left California and fell into the cozy lap of this culture elsewhere.
My impression is there is also quite the hippy culture in Vermont too, and those land prices are a hell of a lot cheaper than Cali!
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#25I will go left of curve which I like with responses to questions like this and say my greatest accomplishment in 2017 is I've made more friends this year than I've had in the last 25 years. I moved city and became very ingrained in the local music scene purely by appreciating what other artists produce. This has reaffirmed my thoughts on work, you can be extraordinary by just showing up when others can't be bothered.…
> you can be extraordinary by just showing up when others can't be bothered
So true. Awesome! Have a great 2018!
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#26Read 24 books.
2016 was only 6.
:)
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#27Left a job that was sucking my soul dry. It was at one of the big tech companies, in a high-visibility, very popular project (lots of people here on HN follow it), but I just couldn't stand working there anymore, in part because of there being too many "rock stars"/"celebrities" in the team that though too highly of themselves. I was hired at a higher position, with significantly higher compensation, at a company that I actually care about waking up in the morning and going to work to give my best. And with way friendlier and humbler co-workers.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#28Accomplishment: Getting back into housing. What I learned: The laid back, people friendly hippie culture for which California is famous didn't actually die. It just moved to the Pacific Northwest.
Port Townsend? :)
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#29I Increased my conscientiousness. I feel like it moved a full standard deviation, but with no real way to measure it, no controls and no documentation it's all guesswork. Still, I can point to certain behavioral changes that haven't regressed in the last 6 months (and a couple surprising ones at that) when I made the change.
How did you do this?
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#30I failed to get a remote job on one of those famous remote first oriented kind of startups/companies and realized how much difficult that market is. It's sexy and It would certainly advance me in terms of knowledge and on my carreer path. Though, that failure led me to my current venture where I validated that I am able to stand as a senior developer in a small dev team(3-4 ppl) that builds a robust and maintainable…
> realized how much difficult that market is
Was it because much more people from around the world applied to the same positions?