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Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
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Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#92Electric bicycles (and other light electrics) are going to remake the world's cities in the next 30 years. The signs are already in place. The biggest transformational factor is the lack of exhaust allowing a lot of personal transport to be moved indoors.
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#93Black Lives Matter
I hope so, but I fear it will be forgotten in the next month or so, like everything else that trends.
But then again, the BLM movement has been around since, what, 2013?
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#94Doing nothing. We've been indoctrinated from an early age to be productive, to schedule every moment, to sacrifice sleep, to always be learning, building, networking, searching and improving. The covid19 lockdown is showing many people the benefits of disconnecting, de-scheduling, refusing or ignoring invitations, and being still with our thoughts for hours or days at a time, producing nothing of tangible economic va…
I love this trend and hope you're right that it grows.
A year ago, all of my hours were optimized, quantified, and monetized. My work and social calendars were equally overstuffed, leading to a frantic feeling of being too busy and falling behind on everything.
Now I have time to experience JOMO, the joy of missing out.
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#95Doing nothing. We've been indoctrinated from an early age to be productive, to schedule every moment, to sacrifice sleep, to always be learning, building, networking, searching and improving. The covid19 lockdown is showing many people the benefits of disconnecting, de-scheduling, refusing or ignoring invitations, and being still with our thoughts for hours or days at a time, producing nothing of tangible economic va…
This is great advice but I’m a procrastinator. I have a full time job already in software but it’s incredibly hard for me to get any will power to work on side projects such as getting a business going or just working on open source. I might need to hear the opposite of this.
Is your perception of yourself being a procrastinator a result of having "been indoctrinated from an early age to be productive, to schedule every moment"?
Taking a view from Positive Psychology, the ABCDE explanation for this thought pattern might go something like:
* [Activating event] You observe yourself not working on side projects
* [Belief] People without side projects or their own businesses are failures
* [Consequence] Label oneself a procrastinator, and feel bad
* [Disputation] People can have meaningful/successful lives without having side projects. People require maintenance in the form of leisure/downtime. Your procrastination is yourself striving for leisure/downtime.
* [Effect] Feel good about activities you previously labelled as procrastination.
I'm not qualified in this area, but this helps me, at least.
https://positivepsychology.com/albert-ellis-abc-model-rebt-c...
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#96“Cheap” biotech. Where yesterday’s billion dollar tools are applied to $10M problems. Starting with food and materials and industrial commodities, but rapidly altering the industrial and commercial and even consumer landscapes once one demonstration ‘works’. And then onto cosmetic, health, aesthetic and other ancillary spaces. Notice companies like Bolt Threads, Impossible foods, Zymergen, and why they are different.…
I’m imagining a direct-to-consumer artisanal line of GMO veggies
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
The podcast Pivot has a host who has referred to Coronavirus as "the great accelerator", meaning trends that were grabbing hold have only sped up under the pandemic. Remote work is definitely one of those. I'm curious if your last paragraph holds true or not. The same thing was said about "digital nomads" in the freelance space. While it certainly got a lot of headlines and made a lot of people have some wonderful fa…
you don't have to be a digital nomad. We've been living in a rural'ish city (Cedar city, UT), that isn't a tech hub for awhile now. I'm a freelance dev (underpaid probably $40/hr). But, I like living wherever I want, and not having to move. Plus wife's family is nearby which comes in handy. I think one big thing though about the have-nots divide increasing is this is going to speed up automation unlike anything we've…
Check out Robin Hanson's Twitter. His hobby horse recently has been finding _any_ evidence that total employment is affected by recent automation and he's not really finding any.
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#98Increasing skepticism of science and evidence-based decision making.
Increased skepticism of scientism, and evidence-based decision making instead.
Unfortunately, the scientific method has been replaced by trust of authorities, which are proving themselves untrustworthy. The implosion of fraudulent monetary systems will complete this cycle.
Evidence-based reality will resume its ascendency, when fraudulent money is no longer available to cover over bad decision-making.
Observe specifically what happens to municipalities that depend on government largesse, and have no productive agricultural or engineering capacity, and few in the community with internal moral imperative, and the will and capability to defend the innocent...
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#99Black Lives Matter
On top of this. Understanding the difference between acceptance, and being 'non-racist' vs being 'anti-racist' - which is what the movement needs more than anything. True allies are embracing the 'anti-racist' term and shutting down every symbol of racism. Look at the rebranding of Mrs. Butterworths, Aunt Jemima, Cream of Wheat, Uncle Ben. Look at cities willing to remove Christopher Columbus statues, etc.. there's b…
I vehemently disagree.
This hysterical scramble to label everything as racist regardless of merit, and suffocate any rational discussion of issues, is tearing the fabric of society apart, and only serves to dilute the message against police brutality.
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#100Synthetic food.
It's already happening with meat made from plants, but going further, you shouldn't need a cow to make milk, or a fruit tree for orange juice, or even a whole wheat grass for flour.