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Increasing your practice surface area

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Re: Increasing your practice surface area

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Post by ge96 »

mikestorrent wrote: post #19
ge96 wrote: post #13

I wonder how the indie/entrepreneur space is doing nowadays. I tried to do it myself but never really got anywhere this was back in 2016. Whenever I go on sites/subreddits around this topic a lot of the posts just seem to be about generating clout/some fake revenue numbers/screenshot of earnings. It's like entrepreneurs selling to each other. I suppose nowadays it's probably around LLM wrappers, photo generation, vid…

I don't want to use the word "grift", but it really seems like we're scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to new ideas for products a lot of the time. Go and read this month's HN "Who is hiring" thread for an example. It's all either fintech crypto crap that never seems to come to fruition for anything normal people want to use, weird microloans, and products for extremely small niches like using AI to hel…

Forced conscription sucks, at least a difference between real war and something mandatory like 2 years of reserves equivalent (I'm not talking about US)

Re: Increasing your practice surface area

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Post by egypturnash »

mikestorrent wrote: post #19
ge96 wrote: post #13

I wonder how the indie/entrepreneur space is doing nowadays. I tried to do it myself but never really got anywhere this was back in 2016. Whenever I go on sites/subreddits around this topic a lot of the posts just seem to be about generating clout/some fake revenue numbers/screenshot of earnings. It's like entrepreneurs selling to each other. I suppose nowadays it's probably around LLM wrappers, photo generation, vid…

I don't want to use the word "grift", but it really seems like we're scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to new ideas for products a lot of the time. Go and read this month's HN "Who is hiring" thread for an example. It's all either fintech crypto crap that never seems to come to fruition for anything normal people want to use, weird microloans, and products for extremely small niches like using AI to hel…

Is it better or worse than when the greatest minds of our generation were lost to increasing user engagement by any means necessary?

Re: Increasing your practice surface area

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Post by zrules »

mikestorrent wrote: post #20
ChanningAllen wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's doing better than ever! LLMs offer the equivalent of $500k+ in outside funding if used correctly, so there's a huge uptick in # of new bootstrapped startups. In fact we (the Indie Hackers founders) are bootstrapping a new B2B app now that Claude Code & Codex CLI (etc) are on the org chat.

I hope this is a parody post and not actually the real exhultations of an actual founder.

For post-product-market-fit hires or scale-up engineering teams, the interview process could skip LeetCode and instead test how well candidates can identify and debug issues introduced by LLMs. Less binary trees, more LLM bug-hunting

Re: Increasing your practice surface area

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Post by Zambyte »

ChanningAllen wrote: post #14
AznHisoka wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm an Eminem fan and didn't get that reference FWIW. I thought it was some "Silicon Valley bro" that wanted you to drink kelp, and build your biceps or something

Gotcha! Shame on me. Just slapped a "Slim Shady" label on his hoodie. Won't fully stop the bleeding but at least a few more people will get it.

Thanks for the change, sorry if I came off as too aggressive. I've seen some uses of AI that were very similar that strictly made the article worse and it would have been better to simply delete it. I'll concede that I simply didn't get it, and that's a me problem here. I'll give the article a more fair chance when I have some time later :)

Re: Increasing your practice surface area

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Post by JackFr »

> The difference between being good and being great isn’t talent or formal training, but the invisible practice that happens when you're just living life.

Pure nonsense.

Necessary != sufficient, and honestly neither are demonstrated in the anecdotes.

Re: Increasing your practice surface area

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Post by wiseowise »

This is new level of snake oil. When you're not selling your own snake oil, but trying to piggyback off of other people.

Burn out speedrun 101.

If you want to keep your sanity, you need to find your own passion, not try to emulate others (especially with crazy routines like the examples).

Re: Increasing your practice surface area

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Post by peterfirefly »

boerseth wrote: post #17
AznHisoka wrote: post #8

This is the same thing that AJATT (All Japanese All The Time or something) recommends to learn a new language too.

I was gonna say. I did it with French some years ago and it worked like a charm. Later I became obsessed with Argentine tango. Unfortunately, I thought, "comprehensible input" won't work with dancing, especially not a couple's dance. Nevertheless, unable to dance every day due to my local scene being quite small, I instead consumed a boatload of YouTube videos during my spare time. Instructional content, performances…

Watching lots of Doom videos on Youtube helped me learn some aspects of the game surprisingly fast. I can't control Doomguy as fast and as precisely as the best Doom youtubers but I can read a situation in the game about as fast and as good as they can and often come up with the plan they eventually follow faster than they do.

Re: Increasing your practice surface area

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Post by wiseowise »

bdangubic wrote: post #23
danjl wrote: post #4

Or, you can live a balanced happy life with relationships and touching grass where you are "in the moment", and not always distracted.

being passionate about something is not a distraction

Being passionate and obsessive are two different things.

> Turn idle time into mental rehearsal

Any psychologist would bash your head with a book for following this.

Re: Increasing your practice surface area

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Post by bitbasher »

This article is quite shallow. It's essentially saying, in order to excel at something it needs to become a part of you.

There's some truth there, but Charles Bukowski said it much better and more succinctly with, "Don't try." [1]

1: https://poets.org/poem/so-you-want-be-writer

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