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

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Post by prometheus76 » Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 2:33 PM UTC

mruts wrote: post #92

I seem to be an alcoholic, I guess? I dunno, I now drink like maybe 80oz of beer a night? Is this a problem? I'm not sure. I don't know if it's affecting me in anyway (I'm primarily concerned about my brain). I never feel drunk, but maybe that's also a problem? I'm trying to reconcile with how I feel (only mildly buzzed at the end of the night) with how much it sounds. Hell, in college, I would have considered that a…

Another experiment to try: what happens if you don't drink anything for a night? How many nights can you go without drinking anything? Can you tell yourself, "I'm only having two beers tonight", then actually stop after having two beers?

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

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Post by periram » Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 5:02 PM 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…

Correction:

1. As many have pointed out. Not everyone can run.

2. I took me 1 hour 50 minutes to run 8 miles and NOT 1 hour . I was eventually clocking a steady 1 hour 40 minutes approximately from 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM PMThat was quite a miscalculation on my part. Sorry about that. I had to go recheck with my app.

3. Yes learn to run properly! From my own personal experience, I needed to really relax my body, especially my hands so that I am not hurting any muscles, especially in the back. When you go very slow, you can catch and fix any posture issues before they cause trouble. Also all the running was outside, along the road and not in the gym.

4. I did not mix strength and cardio. I round robin between running (mostly), gym, sports (high intensity group sports). Usually a few months at a time.

The whole point of me sharing this info was to share my perception/experience/thoughts that when I stuck to something without many expectations, my body "knew" what was right for me and started "adapting" itself. I just needed to let it take its time and also not get tempted to give it up.

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

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Post by periram » Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 5:06 PM UTC

emit_time wrote: post #106

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…

How often did you run starting out? I’ve been doing 1 miles after my strength workouts ~3x a week, and it hasn’t gotten much better. Been doing it for about 2 months.

First few days 1 - 2 miles every day for about a week. Then slowly went to 3 - 3.5 miles. Was stuck there for a few weeks.

Breaking the 4 mile barrier happened accidentally, when I "forgot" to stop and kept going. My body did not realize.

After the 4 mile barrier, it somehow seemed that my body can go on for much longer, as it had reached a steady state in terms of breathing, burning energy, being very efficient in my stride etc.

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

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Post by periram » Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 5:10 PM UTC

mikekchar wrote: post #128

emit_time wrote: post #106

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How often did you run starting out? I’ve been doing 1 miles after my strength workouts ~3x a week, and it hasn’t gotten much better. Been doing it for about 2 months.

This is years ago, but when I was doing strength workouts, I found that I was burning through my sugar reserves. It takes a while of running before your body moves from burning mostly sugar to burning an even mix of sugar and fat. It does it faster the more cardiovascularly fit you are, but when you first start it can take up to 30 minutes. If you only run 1 mile, you aren't getting there. I recommend swapping the ru…

Déjà vu.

The first few weeks/months, my body would go into panic mode after 3 - 4 miles. After a while it realizes that this is "normal" and happily start burning through the fat. It whole process is (to me seemed) organic (i.e. you cannot fast track it) and you need to let it play out.

Also I got best results when I did gym and running separately, say few months each at a time.

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

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Post by periram » Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 5:13 PM UTC

postpawl wrote: post #112

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…

“After a few weeks magic happens. You can run 8 miles in about one hour, not get bored, not think about it.” This is exactly how I got a bad case of shin splints. I don’t mess around with upping mileage this quickly anymore.

Sorry for my mistake. I took me appx. 2 hours for 8 miles and not 1 hours. Please see my correction below.

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

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Post by marktangotango » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 2:18 AM UTC

throwaway8879 wrote: post #31

I'd forgotten how much I loved Megadeth, having not listened to them for well over a decade. I realize that Peace Sells and Rust In Peace are phenomenally written, in whatever musical context you'd want to judge them by. There are some amazingly iconic riffs on these two records. I also realise how I got sucked into playing/learning all this other music as I got older, when all I ever really wanted to do was play som…

Peace sells is a great album.

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

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Post by amerine » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 4:29 AM UTC

news_hacker wrote: post #201

fluroblue wrote: post #198

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Any tips or resources on breaking out of the middle class mentality?

Seek out people who aren't bitter about the "elite", but students of them. Some good reads, although they may at first make you a bit depressed: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... and The Developer Hegemony. Robert Kiyosaki, of Rich Dad Poor Dad fame, has some pretty solid fundamental advice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftBeTIDv8Vg

Developer Hegemony is interesting. I don’t agree with Erik that you can classify the corporate/business world as simply as he does, for one I think the “idealist” part of his spectrum is probably two to three separate personas (idealists, chronically-anxious, grateful/approval hungry). I do value, greatly, the encouragement to strike out on business though.

Rich Dad Poor Dad has some ok mental-model ideas that are great if don’t come from a background/family that exposed you to “the business world”, most of the rest of it is repetitive drivel.

What do you think?

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

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Post by amerine » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 4:47 AM UTC

sethammons wrote: post #216

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…

I understand that being an owner will have potential greater upside than being an employee almost ever will. I cannot think of a business idea for anything (at least, nothing with the possibility of profits, haha).

I learned a lesson to solve this years ago: you are not talking to enough people.

Start conversations. Ask questions. Don’t boast. Let people share their problems with you.

Also, if you really can’t think of something start copying something you like, tonight, but worry about all of it from the start. How will you sell? How will you market? Write that shit down, and start copying.

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

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 1:14 PM UTC

muzani wrote: post #213

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #132

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A lot of HN is political and it has it's fair share of crazies.

I actually enjoy HN's crazies as they're from an angle that doesn't appear elsewhere.

Sometimes they are interesting, mostly it's just annoying.

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

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Post by news_hacker » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 7:48 PM UTC

amerine wrote: post #227

news_hacker wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seek out people who aren't bitter about the "elite", but students of them. Some good reads, although they may at first make you a bit depressed: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... and The Developer Hegemony. Robert Kiyosaki, of Rich Dad Poor Dad fame, has some pretty solid fundamental advice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftBeTIDv8Vg

Developer Hegemony is interesting. I don’t agree with Erik that you can classify the corporate/business world as simply as he does, for one I think the “idealist” part of his spectrum is probably two to three separate personas (idealists, chronically-anxious, grateful/approval hungry). I do value, greatly, the encouragement to strike out on business though. Rich Dad Poor Dad has some ok mental-model ideas that are gr…

I think these are fair assessments. I don't treat either or as gospel, and I'm always quick to invoke "all models are wrong, but some are useful". However, they both have some interesting insights that have helped my personal journey.

Rich Dad Poor Dad (Kiyosaki) helped me see debt differently. I grew up with the mindset that all debt is bad, it's slavery, and it should be paid off... and that money is meant to be saved. I now realize that money is meant to be deployed. Also RDPD has helped push me along to realize that debt is a tool, and like all tools there are ways to use it that can be advantageous.