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Ideally gain skills that will weather the potential recession that should start mid-year? Not sure what those will be exactly, but perhaps others have an idea...
Nontechnical skills: practice vipassana and observe a strict, austere hipster diet (preferably plant-based) if you want to not die. Learn how to sustainably live off-grid with zero emissions if you want to not kill the planet. And for God's sake, delete your FANG accounts. All of them.
I’ve tried a few times over the past year to make headway on this and haven’t felt successful, so I’m redoubling and trying to deconstruct the concept a little, figure out some rules and habits to impose on myself, and so on.
I don’t feel confident of success at all, it feels like the defining characteristic of our time is that we’re all walking around with the equivalent of a gram of cocaine in our pockets 24/7.
My working theory is that drastic abstinence oriented solutions are the only way forward.
Any success stories welcome.
https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/12/20/stalin.html
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2014/05/the-ultimate-cheat-shee...
http://time.com/38796/6-hostage-negotiation-techniques-that-...
https://hbr.org/2016/07/how-to-negotiate-with-a-liar
https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-negotiate-with-someone-more-p...
https://www.fastcompany.com/3001209/negotiate-car-salesman-5...
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/ask-a-h...
https://bothsidesofthetable.com/when-should-you-allow-exclus...
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2014/11/how-to-deal-with-difficult...
https://mindhacks.com/2014/05/26/the-best-way-to-win-an-argu...
I've been learning Elixir, which is really good for creating concurrent and scalable systems. Concurrency has always been something that has fascinated me and I see in Elixir a chance to make very concurrent code without having to deal with locks, race conditions, and all the other icky low-level stuff. Elixir is also a functional language, making this is the first functional language I've learned, which is another r…
For those who want to start at post #1, here ya go > https://inquisitivedeveloper.com/lwm-elixir-1/
Two things I want to focus on are Kubernetes and Golang. I've played with them in the past, but not spent enough time with them to be confident using them in production.
Go is undeniably very useful, just feels like such drudgery actually working with it.
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> I find many of my smart, technology friends don't really have a solid grasp of finances and economics. This describes me, unfortunately. I consider myself fairly smart, did well in college, tons of technical skills, but I am -terrible- with money. I keep a 12-month spreadsheet showing income and expenses for every pay period and one showing current debt, but beyond that I know I’m awful about it. A lot of it comes…
> I keep a 12-month spreadsheet showing income and expenses for every pay period and one showing current debt This means that you are not terrible with money. 90% of practical personal finance can be expressed as follows: expenses < income. The rest is implementation details.
Part of that comes from being in a high cost-of-living area with a child and student loan debt, but I also know that a part of it is due to the fact that I buy things I don't need way too often.