This is the basis of ignorance or no self awareness, you go on autopilot on what feels great at the moment
Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
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Re: Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
#102I’m continually struck by how brave Andreas is for talking about his addiction problems out in public. In most every interview he leads with it when he could just easily say a vague: “I found myself with a lot of free time”.
Addiction can come with a LOT of shame baggage. To embrace vulnerability over it is quite substantial. Thank you Andreas for being a positive example for the world! Keep up the great work!
Re: Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
#103I find Andreas's short non-technical posts to be fairly unenlightening, and am consistently surprised to see them attract so much attention on HN. The information value here is low.
Perhaps it’s not meant for you. Does not mean it’s not meant for others.
Re: Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
#104I find Andreas's short non-technical posts to be fairly unenlightening, and am consistently surprised to see them attract so much attention on HN. The information value here is low.
Besides what the others said, they're also good conversation starters.
Re: Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
#105I find Andreas's short non-technical posts to be fairly unenlightening, and am consistently surprised to see them attract so much attention on HN. The information value here is low.
This is good writing. Highlights a very important concept in very few words. I am thankful for the reminder.
Re: Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
#106Positive habit forming is incredibly hard to do. Negative habit forming is easy. Being “aware” of this fact is not enough to prevent bad habit forming.
Re: Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
#107I find Andreas's short non-technical posts to be fairly unenlightening, and am consistently surprised to see them attract so much attention on HN. The information value here is low.
They're descriptive, not prescriptive. Like journaling. Like "writing to understand" (oneself). Andreas benefits from the process itself. If other's appreciate it, woot. If not, just move on.
I personally find Andreas's efforts comforting.
Whereas I eschew the majority of our culture's prescriptive self-help BS. Just one sincere, yet still excretable, example is Mark Manson's middle brow rehash of philosophy; I get more from reading the OCs like Zeno and Epicurus.
Re: Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
#108I love listening to Guy Raz's "How I Built This" podcast - a common element in almost every success story is the number of failures it took to reach success. Failure, the ability to keep working / pivot through failures, and being okay with failure seem to be requirements to succeeding.
Failure is literally a key ingredient to success.
Re: Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
#109I find Andreas's short non-technical posts to be fairly unenlightening, and am consistently surprised to see them attract so much attention on HN. The information value here is low.
I share your surprise at how simplistic self-help bromides consistently bubble to the top of this site.
Re: Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
#110It's very honest of him to breakdown how he makes his living on SerenityOS - really enjoyed that blog post, helps give people an idea of how a very technically saavy person can make it in today's world as a "nomad".