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The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
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Re: The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
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This is the quintessential example of a pedantic Hacker News comment.
I don't know, I appreciated the correction and additional information. There was also an acknowledgment that it doesn't change ops point. Seemed like a useful comment to me.
Also appreciated by those who prefer to work in torrents, rather than consistently. ;)
Re: The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
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Yup. Knowledge usually works like this. When I first got into home cooking a few years ago, the learning process was painfully slow. It must've taken several attempts spread across a week just to learn how to make basic scrambled eggs the "proper" way. Now after a few years of experience, every ingredient I learn to work with seemingly unlocks a dozen more dishes that I can easily assemble. The rate of learning accel…
Would you mind sharing what you used to learn cooking? My main struggle is recipe books that teach you the recipe rather than cooking. But I'd love to learn HOW to cook, not WHAT to cook.
I'm just a hobbyist but I routinely get compliments. This is what I did/do:
1. Cook what you love
2. Continuously sample stuff before/after adding spices so you get a feel for what each spice does
3. Follow the recipe closely the first time. Make the same thing again several times and make small tweaks that you think will be better
After a while I gained a really good intuition for what worked and what didn't, how things would be affected by stuff, etc. 3.
Re: The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
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> There is an incredible power in simply pouring a little time into something every day over a long period of time. It feels like a superpower when you see it start compounding. There is an amazing book called The Slight Edge which is based on this very principal and it can really change your life. Here is a small excerpt from it that really resonated with me: It sure would be nice if, somehow, you could do something…
> If you're doing the few simple errors in judgment, time will expose you, no matter how well you appear to be doing right now. Like smoking pot. I love smoking pot, but wow can it cascade errors in judgment (only realized upon looking back)
I've been smoking daily for past 5 years, it cascaded into smoking from morning until I fall asleep. Decided to stop on my 25th birthday 3 days ago.
It's really hard and even though I love this devil's lettuce I wish I never started smoking it. Any tips for a fellow smoker ?
Re: The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
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And to expand on what I would like to hope your point is, comments like the GP are exactly why I and many others come here :)
And this is the great thing about threaded comments — everyone who wants to follow the pedantic branch of conversation can do so without derailing the others (though this ideal is frequently thwarted by bad UX). Of course, it's nice when the pedants are self-aware, as is the case here, and acknowledge the pedantry of their tangent. Normalize polite pedantry!
Huh... Suddenly I want “comment code folding” up in here. I mean generally speaking, of course.
Re: The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
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> If you're doing the few simple errors in judgment, time will expose you, no matter how well you appear to be doing right now. Like smoking pot. I love smoking pot, but wow can it cascade errors in judgment (only realized upon looking back)
I'm curious, because I sometimes worry of stepping into this trap, as well: what kind of error cascades?
For me it cascaded to smoking daily and doing 0 health related activities. I could still code tho..
Re: The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
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I don't think it's pedantic though. If what makes your argument powerful is tying it back to a natural phenomenon, then it should be right, otherwise you're using a bad example.
Also, to the degree it's wrong, you can try to take that error back and see where the argument flows. Like, compounding is magic, except realistically, one or more of the following typically happens: - Interest rate is so small that it doesn't add up to a meaningful difference over your lifetime. See e.g. most people and regular savings accounts. - You aren't able to keep systematically saving / learning / etching a…
Yes. With unsteady and infrequent but purposeful action, move the very bowels of the earth.
I mean, accomplish a lot, politely, eh hem.
Excessive steady and consistent work has rendered me delirious, clearly. I’ll see myself out.
Re: The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
#439I just wish people on the internet would discover the difference between "everyday" and "every day."
(Bonus points for "setup" vs. "set up" - a common foulup.)
Re: The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
#440I just wish people on the internet would discover the difference between "everyday" and "every day." (Bonus points for "setup" vs. "set up" - a common foulup.)
How about "login" vs. "log in?" :)