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Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by nikivi »

Most recent success and one that is ongoing is my focus and actual following through on completing my 12 daily habits.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/habits

It includes core things like sleeping for 8 hours, exercising, eating wholefood plant based diet, drinking water, tea, focusing on one task at a time and setting and following through goals.

As for goals, I am genuinely in love with my Focus board I made a while back. Makes navigating life so much easier when you know where you want to go and can deconstruct the goals into actions.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing

Aside from all that I feel like the time I spent optimizing my workflow by learning great tools immensely valuable. I am now at the stage where I build my own tools to solve my own problems. And it feels great.

There is still like 2 people out 7 billion that abuse Karabiner to the extent that I do. In some ways it's sad how so many people are missing out on its power. On the other it gives me great leverage. Just need to use it wisely.

Another success has been writing in my journal openly for the last 2 years, every month. Been a huge mind cleanser. Here is most recent entry.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/looking-back/2019/2019-augus...

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by foxes »

langitbiru wrote: post #3

This year I finally found a flexible and comfortable job. I work only 25 hours per week (more or less). The income does not make me super rich (like FAANG engineers) but I live comfortably with the money. I consider this situation as my recent success because I have a lot of time to work on other things (research, moonshot projects, online businesses). I just published a book about blockchain this year. Last week I r…

Sounds wholesome, I think if you have good self motivation you can always do interesting things in your own time. Sometimes I feel like you have to make it a bit of a routine, but it pays off.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by langitbiru »

jamesb93 wrote: post #6
langitbiru wrote: post #3

This year I finally found a flexible and comfortable job. I work only 25 hours per week (more or less). The income does not make me super rich (like FAANG engineers) but I live comfortably with the money. I consider this situation as my recent success because I have a lot of time to work on other things (research, moonshot projects, online businesses). I just published a book about blockchain this year. Last week I r…

Is the work fulfilling?

Yes. It's about programming education. Low stress job.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by johnborkowski »

Dumblydorr wrote: post #5

Professionally, I won a poster award at a conference, mostly for my slick R ggplot visualizations analyzing delirium in elderly hospitalized patients. I've never won an award for my research or coding, so that was a joyful moment. Especially, given that 2 months earlier, I was crying under my desk on my 30th birthday due to work pressures and feeling totally lost trying to build huge datasets with SQL as a beginner.…

Can you share a link to the visualizations?

Edit: Also, congrats!

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by willismichael »

I started a very niche open source pet project to scratch an itch (I'm a musician that uses Linux, and I wanted a decent Linux native hall-style reverb plugin). Somebody from halfway around the world jumped in and built a GUI for it. Now a small handful of people from around the world rave about how much they love it.

https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by neha_t »

Lots of past failures under the belt, but I just started tasting success today only! My simple word game "Word Hookup" is showing on the US app store's Today page, in the "5 New Games We Love" category. Until last week I had a handful of downloads, and the number is now increasing exponentially. Loving it :) https://www.wordhookup.com

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by CryoLogic »

I launched https://www.anim8.io earlier this year.

It's an alternative to YouTube/Patreon for animators. It has better monetization options for them, and will have easier sorting/filtering of animations + I am working on some tools like in-browser frame editor.

No advertising, all word of mouth and about 40k people are using it each month which is cool. Our Discord should hit 1,000 animators and fans soon too!

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by dpflan »

I'm in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program: in my Knowledge-Based AI course, my final project that created an agent to solve Raven's Progressive Matrices performed in the top 10 of all submissions and hence earned bonus points for my overall grade (the performance boost was a surprise).

> Coures Page: http://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/summer-2019/

> Project Overview: http://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/summer-2019/project-overview...

> RPMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices

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