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Reached 2500 in overwatch, been hard stuck around 1900 for a few seasons

I was going to post the same thing! Just peeked over 2500 on tanks last night, hoping to the same for DPS soon. I'm still down around 1900 on support, though.

Trying playing Moira -- she's broken right now. Highest I've ever been previously is just over 3k on tank and I'm sitting around 3300 right now just from playing Moira.

Right click orbs only and use your ult on cooldown. Good luck!

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Obtained industrial premises for a robotics business I conceived 4 years ago and began to invest in significant hardware for insourced manufacturing and further acceleration of future R&D. Received unprompted, personal email regarding direct corporate investment from billionaire investor chairing multibillion conglomerate. Initial hires (and one fire) toward daily operations management delegation.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Cut out drinking, weed, meat, sugar, processed foods. Wake up every day around 5am and dive into deep work. Got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a flip phone. Deactivated Facebook, barely check Instagram anymore. Dropped about 25 pounds without working out much, feel great. Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me, saved a lot of energy and time. Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just refe…

First let me say congratulations! I'm curious what triggered the change - I recently gave up FB and IG as well and honestly wish I had done it years ago!

Thanks! It was a number of things: knowing the emptiness of social media (for the most part), spending a lot of time out in the National Parks, taking care of my grandmother in her final month of life, dating an older woman for a few months, ayahuasca and bufo ceremonies, and knowing life is short.

All of this happened in the last year, so it was just a perfect storm of things at one time.

I'm living in a new paradigm I feel as I go into my 30's.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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I passed N3 level of Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT). Whole life I have been doing mostly technical and engineering work, even hobbies and side interests were mostly technical-oriented.

I would never have imagined to pick up another spoken language to learn. I am enjoying the process of language learning though sometime struggle with it. Even wife has been surprised how seriously I have taken to learning Japanese. The only drawback is that I haven't done anything technology related for a while.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Cut out drinking, weed, meat, sugar, processed foods. Wake up every day around 5am and dive into deep work. Got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a flip phone. Deactivated Facebook, barely check Instagram anymore. Dropped about 25 pounds without working out much, feel great. Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me, saved a lot of energy and time. Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just refe…

Which flip phone?

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Cut out drinking, weed, meat, sugar, processed foods. Wake up every day around 5am and dive into deep work. Got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a flip phone. Deactivated Facebook, barely check Instagram anymore. Dropped about 25 pounds without working out much, feel great. Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me, saved a lot of energy and time. Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just refe…

Oh dude congrats! That's a whole decade worth of wins right there. Keep it up!

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Cut out drinking, weed, meat, sugar, processed foods. Wake up every day around 5am and dive into deep work. Got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a flip phone. Deactivated Facebook, barely check Instagram anymore. Dropped about 25 pounds without working out much, feel great. Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me, saved a lot of energy and time. Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just refe…

Which flip phone?

The is the real question

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Cut out drinking, weed, meat, sugar, processed foods. Wake up every day around 5am and dive into deep work. Got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a flip phone. Deactivated Facebook, barely check Instagram anymore. Dropped about 25 pounds without working out much, feel great. Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me, saved a lot of energy and time. Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just refe…

Congratulations !

> Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just referrals and word-of-mouth.

Any hints what do you do ? How lucrative is contract based development / consulting in general ?

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Work: I just completed a big project, moving platform and host for one of our e-commerce stores, without messing up. I consider this a major win because I had to do everything on my own, from re-building the old system on the new framework to converting all the data. Self: I just completed my third year of walking 7 miles every day. I feel strong, sleep well and I'm way more productive both at home and at work.

How long does it take you to walk 7 miles? Walking threadmill?
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