Maybe you quit your job, maybe you started your own business, or you're getting more sleep, or you're dieting, or you're practicing mindful meditation.
What life improving event or practices you started after reading a HN thread?
Ask HN: How HN improved your life?
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#2It didn't.
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#3You asked this 16 hours ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2176759
Any particular reason for asking it again?
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#4You asked this 16 hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2176759 Any particular reason for asking it again?
I thought the question was not well formulated. Sorry about that
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#5Hrrrm.... I don't know that I'd say HN has "changed my life" in any specific, grand sense. But I've definitely learned a lot from hanging out here. If I had to cite one thing in particular that I've gotten out of my time here, it would probably be "being exposed to the Customer Development methodology." I'm pretty sure it was a link or two from here that first got me reading about CD, and led me to buying Steve's book, which I would cite as being "life changing" (or at least on the verge of it.)
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#6So far, I wouldn't say it has "changed my life", at least not on the scale that usually suggests. I would like it to. I have a project in mind that I would like to get support for/feedback on. I completely suck at starting discussions and the things I "submit" are generally largely ignored -- which is a problem I have historically in other forums, it isn't particular to HN. I hardly slept this week and then slept like 9 or so hours last night. Maybe this weekend or some other weekend, I will figure out what to ask. :-/ Or maybe not. Time will tell.
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#7So far, I wouldn't say it has "changed my life", at least not on the scale that usually suggests. I would like it to. I have a project in mind that I would like to get support for/feedback on. I completely suck at starting discussions and the things I "submit" are generally largely ignored -- which is a problem I have historically in other forums, it isn't particular to HN. I hardly slept this week and then slept lik…
It sounds like you should be testing more.
What is different about the questions you ask and the ones that get responses?
How can you make your questions more like theirs?
Ultimately, just throw up a lot of crap and see what sticks. Then improve on what sticks.
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#8I discuss world-changing news with my son after dinner. NASA discoveries, social phenomena, whatever. I get it all from HN.
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#9So far, I wouldn't say it has "changed my life", at least not on the scale that usually suggests. I would like it to. I have a project in mind that I would like to get support for/feedback on. I completely suck at starting discussions and the things I "submit" are generally largely ignored -- which is a problem I have historically in other forums, it isn't particular to HN. I hardly slept this week and then slept lik…
It sounds like you should be testing more. What is different about the questions you ask and the ones that get responses? How can you make your questions more like theirs? Ultimately, just throw up a lot of crap and see what sticks. Then improve on what sticks.
Just throwing up a lot of crap and seeing what sticks doesn't generally work for me. To me, that's the slowest, most painful way to figure out what works. Studying the successes of others is my preferred route. This particular idea is kind of newly born, so probably best to let it incubate a bit anyway. And, as I said, I have not slept well this week. Posting with a clear head generally gets better results.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sounds like you should be testing more. What is different about the questions you ask and the ones that get responses? How can you make your questions more like theirs? Ultimately, just throw up a lot of crap and see what sticks. Then improve on what sticks.
Just throwing up a lot of crap and seeing what sticks doesn't generally work for me. To me, that's the slowest, most painful way to figure out what works. Studying the successes of others is my preferred route. This particular idea is kind of newly born, so probably best to let it incubate a bit anyway. And, as I said, I have not slept well this week. Posting with a clear head generally gets better results.
Obviously, not sleeping isn't the greatest way to have your best thoughts. I understand that.
However, I think you're missing out on a huge upside. You are judged by your best works not your failures.
The problem with studying the success of others is that you're not doing anything. I would know, I spent 2 years doing it and had nothing to show for it.
When I say throw up a lot of crap, what I really mean is throw up good enough stuff to validate the idea. Then go from there. It maybe painful, but it works. It certainly isn't slow. I can throw up an outline of 5 blog posts and say, "Which one do you want to read?" and then write the post everyone likes. Or I can study how the best bloggers do it and start tomorrow(which never comes).