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Dopamine detox, I'm going to stop coca cola zero, open twitter/Reddit/HN 30 times. Avoid being exposed to a recommendation system (youtube, Netflix etc ...)
- It’s important to keep in touch with IT news,
- It trumps boredom. Boredom makes me have internal dialogue; Internal dialogue makes me angry at the social situation. I need to forget, and fortunately I don’t enjoy alcohol, so I indulge myself with news.
More specifically, hire a trainer and exercise outside my home.
For many real and imagined reasons, my lack of a fitness routine is becoming the greatest risk to my life being miserable. I'm already in daily pain and sleep poorly.
Every year I like to write out my long-term (5-10 year) goals down and then pick 2 or 3 of them to focus on for the year. Then break them down into monthly, weekly, and daily goals/habits. For 2023 I chose to work on over coming my social anxiety which has some how gotten really bad and work on changing careers into another field (currently in construction).
I'm going to pare down the number of goals I've set for myself, and divest myself of any physical detritus associated with the ones I've abandoned so that I have less clutter to deal with. I'm going to make simpler, more standardized meals with fewer ingredients so that I spend less time cooking and cleaning the kitchen. Any time savings I realize from these efforts will be redirected toward relaxing with my partner and kids.
I'm also going to be much less ambitious at work, spend less time working late, stuff like that. I've already told my new boss (I recently went through a reorg) that I'm not interested in angling for a promotion or raise this year, and instead want to just focus on doing the work that's already on my plate more efficiently and with less fuss. I'm going to start keeping my nose out of team debates about things like architecture and coding standards, and move toward sharing my opinion only upon explicit solicitation. I'm going to stop pitching ideas for new projects, because those invariably get added to my workload in addition to the things my boss assigns to me, so they ultimately serve to add to my stress levels. I won't worry about how cool or impactful I think the idea is. Implementing it still only serves to enrich the company's investors, and, as a salaried employee, I will not be compensated for any additional time or mental energy I spend working on it.
I have, incredibly, held firm to a resolution I made many years ago: never make another new year's resolution. It's better to have a CI approach IMO. Continuous Improvement. There's nothing special about January 1. If you want to do something start now.
I’m with you, but some people prefer major releases that they can emotionally prepare for. I’ve also been told it helps avoid procrastination, like any deadline can.
With that in mind, I bid you a very fond farewell, HN.
Use the internet as a reference only and otherwise avoid it, specifically social media, entirely. I've already started and have already noticed how peaceful and calm the real world is all around me. And that's all that matters.
I think it's interesting that this comment and a few others call out "I, somebody who is currently on the Internet, would like to avoid the Internet more going forward" What is it about the Internet that we want to get away from? What do we think is out there that would be "better"? It seems very hard to cut something so stimulating. Say we're on the Internet randomly browsing 4 hours a day. I don't think it's realis…
Try to get serious about programming again. I was going on and off past year, just going.. through books, but never really making any serious project. So, that, I want to change. More effort. More cute things.
And, save a bit of money, alongside perhaps upgrading PC. My current PC is rather dated, and limiting, so... Getting a proper PC, would help a lot, considering I do compile from time to time (Yay NixOS) (And maybe would go back to gentoo, to see how things are lol)
And so, I will keep trying. Even if I fail. But I will keep trying. And that's about all.