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Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by severine »

Jommi wrote: post #101
jpdb wrote: post #97

Be more social. I've lost touch with a lot of people over the past 5-6 years. I've jumped jobs, built up my career, moved locations, got married, had 2 kids, and I'm just naturally a home-body. One thing I've neglected is building and maintaining friendships. Whether it just be going to a dinner party every week or so or just making plans with people that aren't my wife+kids, I should get out more. I also really want…

Still looking for that app/service that helps me stay connected with older friends in regular intervals WHILE ALSO being privacy centric and not leaking my entire social life to a corporation.

May I suggest Millow?

https://millow.app/#/learn

Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18380178 (159 points by jsherwani 51 days ago | 94 comments)

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by paulddraper »

lukewrites wrote: post #128
egoisticalgoat wrote: post #120

1. Start getting help for my depression and other mental health related issues. I've been dealing with depression for years now, been officially diagnosed about two or three years ago. I've had a few sessions with a therapist last year but I've broke off all contact with them since. I also have another mental problem which keeps me from eating 90% of food, which makes social gatherings in restaurants etc. a pain. 2.…

> 2. Start exercising more. Here's what worked for me: 1. Accept that 1 > 0. If I could only make it to the gym for 10 minutes on the bike, great! 10 minutes of working out is better than zero minutes! It's not about doing your _ideal_ workout, it's about _doing any sort of workout_. 2. Optimize for time & comfort. I don't mean that your workouts should be easy, they should challenge you. However, I realized that I w…

#2 relates to choosing exercise type.

Running, cycling, weightlifting, calisthenics, swimming, dance, team sports, yoga, etc.

There's some theoretically "optimal" thing there, but the real optimal thing is the one that you'll do.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by alphagrep12345 »

takinola wrote: post #112
alphagrep12345 wrote: post #108

I am completely clueless and confused. I’m 23 yr old working in a dead end job at Oracle. Each day of my work just makes me feel more drained and irrelevant. I’m unable to change company because of visa (I’m on l1). I am split between changing the team or leaving USA for London/India for good. Leaving USA is a risky career proposition - which also pulls me towards doing a masters so that I can stay in US few more yea…

Will your company sponsor you for a green card? My understanding is the green card process is significantly shorter if you are on an L1. That outcome would give you maximum flexibility with regards to working and living in the US

It’s shorter only on L1a. I have L1b. I don’t get any such benefits.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by sidcool »

benmanns wrote: post #16
sidcool wrote: post #4

I like to call it 2FA - Fitness, Finance, Autonomy. All my activities will be around these themes, viz. Getting healthier, learning more about personal finance and planning around self-sufficiency in as many aspects of life as possible.

What would you like to learn more about personal finance? That’s something I’m well versed in and want to teach and write about in the coming year.

Personal Money management and how to maximize it through informed investing.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by tibu »

Jommi wrote: post #101
jpdb wrote: post #97

Be more social. I've lost touch with a lot of people over the past 5-6 years. I've jumped jobs, built up my career, moved locations, got married, had 2 kids, and I'm just naturally a home-body. One thing I've neglected is building and maintaining friendships. Whether it just be going to a dinner party every week or so or just making plans with people that aren't my wife+kids, I should get out more. I also really want…

Still looking for that app/service that helps me stay connected with older friends in regular intervals WHILE ALSO being privacy centric and not leaking my entire social life to a corporation.

I was thinking about using an app for that but I don't think it would work. It has to come from inside. One thing which helps is that I stopped sending chat messages for birthdays. If I want to send a birthday wish I call the person and tell it in words and that we can talk about other things too.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by jackgolding »

SBCRec wrote: post #29
jackgolding wrote: post #8

Health and Fitness needs to be number 1 - part of that is reducing alcohol intake which is difficult as I am part of a very active social group which has a lot of alcohol and drug abuse. Financially - reducing my cost base and actually getting to a new highest "net worth" figure (I've spent a lot on self education which has been very fruitful but I need that "fuck you money") Otherwise I need to diversify my income a…

Jack, I was in a similar place regarding your H&F statement not long ago. I have halved my standard drink intake to maybe ~20 a weekend now and I feel SO much better on a daily basis now (probably due to sleeping better on the weekends). What helped me curb the rampant binge drinking/partying was a renewed focus on software projects I had been meaning to work on, and training for local races (10ks, half marathons). I…

I am on maybe 20 a week at the moment - main problem is the cost (which is probably $160 AUD a week) and how it makes the next morning/next few days useless while your body recovers.

Hope you continue succeeding!

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by ryanwaggoner »

emdowling wrote: post #37

8 hours of sleep per night. That’s it. If I can nail this, everything else will fall into place. I’ll naturally drink less alcohol and eat better. In the last few months, I’ve experimented (via Apple Watch) with the impact that alcohol and diet has on sleep. The book Why We Sleep, combined with habit theory, has had the greatest influence on this decision.

I have had a similar "cornerstone habit" for several years now, with the same underlying assumption: if I can get this one thing right, the rest of my goals and habits will fall into place much more easily.

However, I've formulated the habit slightly differently:

Turn off all devices by 830pm

I have an alarm on my phone that goes off at 820p to let me know all devices need to be powered off in 10 minutes. That means no phone, no computer, no TV, no iPad, etc. The only exception is my Kindle.

What I've personally found is that if I don't have any devices to distract me, 90% of the time I'll start to get sleepy before too long. This makes going to bed at 9p or 930p so much easier. This is especially true after my body has adjusted to a week or two of going to bed early and getting up early. I do occasionally get stuck in a book and stay up late reading, but it's pretty rare, and I don't usually have that stupid addiction feeling I get with Hacker News or Reddit where I'm not even enjoying myself anymore but I just can't seem to put the phone down and go to bed, even though it's 12:30am and I wanted to wake up early.

Previously, when my goal was to get up by a certain time or to get a certain amount of sleep, I was in a constant war between two versions of myself: the one that wanted to stay up late and the one who wanted to get up early, get more sleep, etc. Shifting to just turning off devices at a certain time in the evening has proven to be a lot easier to conform to and still get the same end result.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by kryptk »

mminer wrote: post #35

Build more long-lasting artifacts. As a software developer that has primarily worked in startups, most of which no longer exist, it can be frustrating to have nothing to show for the hours I’ve worked. I envy a friend of mine who works as a 3D animator on feature films who can point out the exact shots he’s responsible for and always has a permanent record of his efforts. I recognize that software inherently lacks th…

There is an additional issue to be faced here. I did a lot of open source in my teens and early 20s that's still sitting on SourceForge, but the last decade+ of my work is locked behind proprietary walls as well.. So while I have concrete things to point at, I wrote them all 10-15k hours of experience ago and they're all terrible and use long obsolete technologies (Borland Delphi, oh how I miss you..).

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by romantsegelskyi »

My biggest goal is to try to better organize the flow of information that I process on daily basis. I deeply enjoy reading and learning new things just about everything, but during the past couple of years, I have been feeling that quality of information I process has been steadily going down, retention decreasing and FOMO steadily increasing.

This comes in different forms:

- Filtering my numerous feed (Facebook, Quora, LinkedIn, Telegram, etc.) better.

- Developing a better routine around reading save articles. Currently I use Pocket + P2K to read things on the Kindle, it works pretty well, but definitely room for improvement

- Improving usage of org-mode to better store information. Maybe taking https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/

And I guess just learning to let go some things that are not essential

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by yewenjie »

romantsegelskyi wrote: post #139

My biggest goal is to try to better organize the flow of information that I process on daily basis. I deeply enjoy reading and learning new things just about everything, but during the past couple of years, I have been feeling that quality of information I process has been steadily going down, retention decreasing and FOMO steadily increasing. This comes in different forms: - Filtering my numerous feed (Facebook, Quo…

Would love to know your current org-mode setup and workflow.
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