Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?

Post by extempore » Sat, Jul 20, 2019, 8:10 AM UTC

mikekchar wrote: post #130

tcmb wrote: post #51

I have a flight reflex which makes me run away when things get tough. I quit a number of jobs because of that and then rationalized it to myself by blaming it on whatever wasn't perfect at these companies. I like to feel I'm the victim of circumstances, blaming hardships on some abstract entity (like fate), subconsciously hoping that 'fate' will prove me wrong by making something good happen to me. I am using substan…

There is a Japanese TV show called "How do you like Wednesdays", where 3 or 4 guys go travelling around the world doing crazy things -- not crazy like Youtube crazy. Just things like trying to visit every European country by car in 2 weeks. They do stupid eating challenges, etc, etc. One of the things I like about the show (apart from the improvised humour) is that the director tells them what they are going to do an…

Post by tonyedgecombe » Sat, Jul 20, 2019, 9:48 AM UTC

maerF0x0 wrote: post #65

I've learned that despite earning in the 98th %ile, working a job will likely not make me rich. I define rich as ~5M in assets including primary residence. Thus taking a "career" is a non-starter and I would advise everyone considering working for someone else to either 1) resign themselves to a distinctly middle class life or 2) reconsider and start a business. Careers that reliably earn > 500k could be considered e…

Post by quickthrower2 » Sat, Jul 20, 2019, 10:01 AM UTC

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #133

maerF0x0 wrote: post #65

I've learned that despite earning in the 98th %ile, working a job will likely not make me rich. I define rich as ~5M in assets including primary residence. Thus taking a "career" is a non-starter and I would advise everyone considering working for someone else to either 1) resign themselves to a distinctly middle class life or 2) reconsider and start a business. Careers that reliably earn > 500k could be considered e…

reconsider and start a business There was an interesting chart linked from here a couple of months ago, sadly I didn't bookmark it. It showed that the bottom decile of entrepreneurs earned less than the bottom decile of employees. The top decile eared a lot more than the top decile of employees. Everybody else was roughly equivalent. It seemed most of the entrepreneurs were happy with this, business wasn't a get rich…

Post by quickthrower2 » Sat, Jul 20, 2019, 10:05 AM UTC

git-pull wrote: post #60

In the last 12 months, I begun understanding: - what attachment theory was, as a tool/framework analyze myself, others, and the world around me - about western philosophy (Plato, Socrates, Marcus Aurelius) - about eastern Europe or it's history (e.g. Alexander the Great, Siege of Constantinople, the Crusades, Subutai) - TypeScript - how to say hi in Polish or Ukrainian - how powerful desktop PC's are compared to lapt…

Post by julius_set » Sat, Jul 20, 2019, 10:22 AM UTC

periram wrote: post #77

Anyone can run, you just need to reset your expectations. Backstory. I used to not like running at all. Every time I ran, my mind would count down either time left or distance left. It always felt easy in the beginning but very soon would be unattainable. But now I can run decent distances without getting mentally or physically exhausted. So here are the lessons: 1. The first 1 mile is the hardest. 2. Second mile is…