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Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by dorkwood »

gdy wrote: post #84
dTal wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can understand the "ick" factor - putting this much of oneself online, without any contextual filter, embodies a level of intimacy unusual with strangers. I don't think it's weird to find it discomfiting seeing notes about machine learning side by side with relationship advice. It feels like a bit much from one guy. But I think it's very unfair to say it paints a very bleak picture of his life. I jumped straight to…

"Maintain eye contact." Well, you naturally want to look a woman in the eyes if you are genuinely attracted to her, it's hard to resist. If you need a manual on maintaining eye contact, you probably just want to have sex with somebody, if not with this woman, than with another one. The creepy part is that this section in wiki teaches you to simulate feelings you don't actually have in order to get laid and this direc…

I’ve lived by a similar philosophy for most of my life — to always be my genuine self. If a woman doesn’t find that attractive, then it wasn’t meant to be.

Unfortunately, this has resulted in me never having had a relationship, despite being well into my 30s now.

I have close female friends who enjoy my company, so I know I’m not completely repulsive to women. I don’t think I come across as creepy or desperate (I don’t even particularly care about sex). I just never learned the necessary skills for starting a relationship. I wouldn’t know what the early stages even looked like.

The likely future for me, if I don’t change something, is that I never find a partner. I’m not lonely or anything, I’m just worried that I’m missing out on an important part of the human experience. And I’m not sure how to remedy the situation without learning to fake what appears to come naturally to everyone else.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by goombastic »

Anyone else use a paper notebook and writing long form? I somehow feel that it helps with recall/refresh better than a lot of the wikis Ive tried out? A lot of the times, one look at the page brings backs a photographic memory of the context under which those notes were made. Type/electronic note taking doesn't seem to cut it for me.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by GaryNumanVevo »

goombastic wrote: post #112

Anyone else use a paper notebook and writing long form? I somehow feel that it helps with recall/refresh better than a lot of the wikis Ive tried out? A lot of the times, one look at the page brings backs a photographic memory of the context under which those notes were made. Type/electronic note taking doesn't seem to cut it for me.

I'm a huge fan of writing in a paper journal, for more important stuff, i.e. blog posts, video scripts, I'll use my Surface Pro + some OCR to get a rough draft converted.

Something about the physical action of writing makes me retain information better.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by gdy »

jplayer01 wrote: post #101
gdy wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Maintain eye contact." Well, you naturally want to look a woman in the eyes if you are genuinely attracted to her, it's hard to resist. If you need a manual on maintaining eye contact, you probably just want to have sex with somebody, if not with this woman, than with another one. The creepy part is that this section in wiki teaches you to simulate feelings you don't actually have in order to get laid and this direc…

> Well, you naturally want to look a woman in the eyes if you are genuinely attracted to her, it's hard to resist. I'm not sure if you're being serious here. Do you really think there don't exist any shy guys at all anywhere that find it hard to talk to attractive women or look them in the eyes? Seriously?

Other bits on that wiki page don't give an impression of a particularly shy guy.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by jplayer01 »

gdy wrote: post #114
jplayer01 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Well, you naturally want to look a woman in the eyes if you are genuinely attracted to her, it's hard to resist. I'm not sure if you're being serious here. Do you really think there don't exist any shy guys at all anywhere that find it hard to talk to attractive women or look them in the eyes? Seriously?

Other bits on that wiki page don't give an impression of a particularly shy guy.

Yeah, no. None of this is enough to decide whether he's any good at talking to women. Plenty of guys are social, but find it hard to talk to attractive girls.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by gdy »

jplayer01 wrote: post #115
gdy wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other bits on that wiki page don't give an impression of a particularly shy guy.

Yeah, no. None of this is enough to decide whether he's any good at talking to women. Plenty of guys are social, but find it hard to talk to attractive girls.

Not too hard.

"And I like to approach girls I find attractive in real life (where appropriate) by saying hey and asking for their name."

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by 5_minutes »

cpach wrote: post #11
kjksf wrote: post #8

I do a similar thing at https://blog.kowalczyk.info/ (under "My external brain"), e.g. section on programming: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/d61b4f94b10d4d808d3d238a... I build a custom toolchain to generate it. All the content is stored in Notion (which is the fastest way I found to write and edit content). I wrote a Go program ( https://github.com/kjk/blog ) to convert that to html and deploy as a static site…

Interesting! What is Notion?

Just hate another subscription service.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by gdy »

dorkwood wrote: post #111
gdy wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Maintain eye contact." Well, you naturally want to look a woman in the eyes if you are genuinely attracted to her, it's hard to resist. If you need a manual on maintaining eye contact, you probably just want to have sex with somebody, if not with this woman, than with another one. The creepy part is that this section in wiki teaches you to simulate feelings you don't actually have in order to get laid and this direc…

I’ve lived by a similar philosophy for most of my life — to always be my genuine self. If a woman doesn’t find that attractive, then it wasn’t meant to be. Unfortunately, this has resulted in me never having had a relationship, despite being well into my 30s now. I have close female friends who enjoy my company, so I know I’m not completely repulsive to women. I don’t think I come across as creepy or desperate (I don…

I have no idea what is really happening but as a wild guess, couldn't "I don’t even particularly care about sex" be the reason?
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