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Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?
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#62Anki or space repetition, exercise every day, natural low-sulfer wines books: thinking fast and slow, black swan/antifragile, why we sleep, the organize mind
>natural low-sulfer wines How is this helpful?
wine in small amounts is very good for you, low-sulfer wines reduce hangovers.
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#63No amount of telling yourself you're happy will make you happy. You can't just "make yourself happy", it's a side effect of other things you do in your life.
Yup. There was a recent guest on Tim Ferriss podcast - he was talking about depressed people, no amount of "you should be happy" or "there are people who have it much worse than you" is gonna help depressed people. It is only going to annoy them and drive them away.
That said, there are people who use affirmations successfully to get out their misery. I dunno what to believe anymore
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#64- Setting 3 daily goals every morning. - Budget/money planning. - The power of writing things done to make them happen.
The power of writing things done to make them happen.
Can you explain your process?
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I can personally attest to being at least 50-70% more creative / productive as an engineer when I'm using stimulants in low-doses and eating right. I'm not saying that ADD/ADHD aren't a thing (as it happens, I'm pretty on the fence about that), but I just wanted to point out that pretty much everyone will be more productive/creative when using stimulants and eating right.
Sometimes I wonder if low-dose stimulants should be available without a diagnosis. Most people don't know this, in the US, a doctor can only prescribe medication for therapeutic use. A doctor can't prescribe someone a low dose of stimulants because that person genuinely enjoys using them, but has no medical need. Thus, I suspect that some doctors will just write down ADD as a diagnosis because someone wants legal acc…
Caffeine is readily available, even at high doses.
Whether there would be benefit in allowing access to amphetamines is an interesting question, but there are definitely stimulants available.
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#66I wish I had discovered that uploading cat videos on YouTube might change one's life ;)
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#67If you're interested in seeing financial returns for your time/work, don't work as a startup employee, ever.
Could you elaborate? Seems like this is heavily dependent on the success of the startup and at which stage you joined.
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#68Learning How To Learn ( https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn ) and Barbara Oakley's book A Mind For Numbers . Completely changed my approach to studying and learning, and my academic efforts after taking it were tremendously better than before. Also related: highly recommend Anki. It feels like magic when the spaced repetition works!
Is it necessary to go through the entire Learning How to Learn course or is there a TL;DR somewhere?
This comment is probably the most common reaction, and also the reason the course exists.
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#69How do you look for stuff here
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#70Here's a couple for web dev:
* how DNS works and how to configure common record types
* regular expressions - specifically for URL rewriting
* setting up good logging and monitoring
* asking for help earlier