"... The tl;dr of this book is a set of strategies to get 1% “better” each day..."
So after 10 years you will be 1.01^3650 = 5929448572069177.9 times better than you are today.. Good luck.
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become
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#12I hate philosophies like this. It acts like humans are machines that need to be doing things. I like to relax and binge netflix occasionally to decompress but that doesn't mean I'm voting for myself to become a lazy bum. I also like to play music but I don't want to become a working musician. Life is more than ACTIONS there's also experiences and things you enjoy that have nothing to do with future planning.
It's not entirely wrong, but yeah, we aren't always making highly conscious decisions. There should be no shame in living a low-key yet morally integral existence and not always being intentional with every single action we take.
My contention with that philosophy is similar to that of all the messaging we get on social media about success and how our lives are supposed to be. No, I don't travel and dine out as much as other people, and perhaps I'm not as conventionally successful as most others in my cohort, but I have enough life experience to inform me that I am both content and not really "missing out" on things like others might. To "live like you'll die tomorrow" seems stressful and unsustainable to me. I much prefer the chill feeling of knowing that I'll wake up with a new day and that I don't necessarily need to be hustling or achieving to be a human.
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#13TODO:
- Survive
Re: Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become
#14I hate philosophies like this. It acts like humans are machines that need to be doing things. I like to relax and binge netflix occasionally to decompress but that doesn't mean I'm voting for myself to become a lazy bum. I also like to play music but I don't want to become a working musician. Life is more than ACTIONS there's also experiences and things you enjoy that have nothing to do with future planning.
These blog posts are such low effort too it makes me cringe. 1) Read $popular_book 2) Have it tell you what to do 3) Blog about chapter, quote, section of said $popular_book 4) Keep you in the loop for SV/VC/Hacker/Founder-sphere because if you don't have a presence your startup doesnt matter. I'm overly generalizing a bit, and I think the blogger probably had good intentions (i.e. me overreacting) but I feel like th…
Having a mechanism to express your thoughts, whether publicly or privately, can be beneficial to the learning process. You try to express your ideas to others and see if you really understand it, sort of like the Feynman technique.
Beyond that, if its cringe to you or not worth your time, just ignore it and move on. Just because it's not worth your time doesn't mean its not worth the time of the author.
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#15This kind of content is better suited for LinkedIn.
I'm not a machine. I need rest and recreation to function properly. I sometimes get sick or sleep poorly. I sometimes get bursts of inspiration. There's no telling what condition I'll be working with on a given day.
But perhaps you're right. Perhaps I'm casting my vote against being some sigma grindset, 4 AM cold showers, audiobooks at 3X speed kind of guy. The other guy seems more chill.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
These blog posts are such low effort too it makes me cringe. 1) Read $popular_book 2) Have it tell you what to do 3) Blog about chapter, quote, section of said $popular_book 4) Keep you in the loop for SV/VC/Hacker/Founder-sphere because if you don't have a presence your startup doesnt matter. I'm overly generalizing a bit, and I think the blogger probably had good intentions (i.e. me overreacting) but I feel like th…
Having a mechanism to express your thoughts, whether publicly or privately, can be beneficial to the learning process. You try to express your ideas to others and see if you really understand it, sort of like the Feynman technique. Beyond that, if its cringe to you or not worth your time, just ignore it and move on. Just because it's not worth your time doesn't mean its not worth the time of the author.
I totally agree. Im not saying he shouldn't blog as for its good personal expression, similar to a diary. Just surprised to see it on HN as for it seems more that the author is someone seeking validation vs discussion.
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#17Unchained of any social responsibility, void of compulsory passions, maybe. I'm not going to run anyone down for the way they organize their life and I do take on conscious actions to form habits. However, these kinds of aphorisms do give me the willies a bit.
Exactly this. I just can't deal with this (I call it) SEOfication of the world.
Content like this always rubs me the wrong way. Not genuinely written because it must be said, because of a deeply felt need to express oneself. But to present oneself in a very specific but essentially superfluous and artificial way.
Maybe it is me being more and more disillusioned by all this kind of superficial content. Maybe it is just me having a different opinion was I could regard as deep content.
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#18This kind of content is better suited for LinkedIn. I'm not a machine. I need rest and recreation to function properly. I sometimes get sick or sleep poorly. I sometimes get bursts of inspiration. There's no telling what condition I'll be working with on a given day. But perhaps you're right. Perhaps I'm casting my vote against being some sigma grindset, 4 AM cold showers, audiobooks at 3X speed kind of guy. The othe…
You're voting for the You that takes care of themself. Good!
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#19The tl;dr of this book is a set of strategies to get 1% “better” each day.
Yeah, you can keep that. I'm focused on getting 1% happier each day.
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#20Everything begets itself