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The eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life

18 points by marban 4y ago

WalterGR 4y ago
(2020) So the book referenced in "Oliver Burkeman’s book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management For Mortals will be published next year by The Bodley Head" has already been published: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Management-Mortals/dp/0374159122 https://www.amazon.com/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Management-Mortal... .
- hhs 4y ago
  Time management is important. Patrick Collison, one of the co-founders of Stripe, addresses this with a wallpaper [0]: “Patrick’s desk is covered in books […] The wallpaper on his computer displays a countdown clock for his life: He has 52 years and a few days left. “This is a very coarse estimate, but it’s a reminder that you get old quickly,” he says, a touch of gray now in his red hair. “When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time.”” [0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-brothers-turned-seven-lines-of-code-into-a-9-2-billion-startup https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-b...
  - WalterGR 4y ago
    Not a bad idea. Found one: Mac: https://github.com/soffes/countdown https://github.com/soffes/countdown It's available via `homebrew`.
- ChildOfChaos 4y ago
  It's a great book too.
moviewise 4y ago
My insight, from watching many movies about what a fulfilled life looks like, is to keep learning new things: https://moviewise.substack.com/p/going-through-an-existential-crisis https://moviewise.substack.com/p/going-through-an-existentia...
- marban 4y ago
  I would add The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
  - iancmceachern 4y ago
    And also Birdman
csdvrx 4y ago
> Selflessness is overrated. We respectable types, although women especially, are raised to think a life well spent means helping others – and plenty of self-help gurus stand ready to affirm that kindness, generosity and volunteering are the route to happiness. There’s truth here, but it generally gets tangled up with deep-seated) issues of guilt and self-esteem. (Meanwhile, of course, the people who boast all day on Twitter about their charity work or political awareness aren’t being selfless at all; they are burnishing their egos.) > If you’re prone to thinking you should be helping more, that’s probably a sign that you could afford to direct more energy to your idiosyncratic ambitions and enthusiasms This also applies to free software! Do things for your own selfish desires! Last week, I was asked if I have ever written about my work. The answer was no: I'm not much into social media or self promotion, because everything was written for myself and my selfish needs first. I genuinely don't care if people like what I do: If they do, good, they can leech and use my work, if they don't... That's good too! I don't care much more than that, as there are many fun things to try hacking (right now getting i915 to work on a lakefield) and time is in limited supply :)

18 points by marban 4y ago

(2020) So the book referenced in "Oliver Burkeman’s book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management For Mortals will be published next year by The Bodley Head" has already been published: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Management-Mortals/dp/0374159122 https://www.amazon.com/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Management-Mortal... .

hhs 4y ago
Time management is important. Patrick Collison, one of the co-founders of Stripe, addresses this with a wallpaper [0]: “Patrick’s desk is covered in books […] The wallpaper on his computer displays a countdown clock for his life: He has 52 years and a few days left. “This is a very coarse estimate, but it’s a reminder that you get old quickly,” he says, a touch of gray now in his red hair. “When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time.”” [0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-brothers-turned-seven-lines-of-code-into-a-9-2-billion-startup https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-b...
- WalterGR 4y ago
  Not a bad idea. Found one: Mac: https://github.com/soffes/countdown https://github.com/soffes/countdown It's available via `homebrew`.
ChildOfChaos 4y ago
It's a great book too.

moviewise 4y ago

My insight, from watching many movies about what a fulfilled life looks like, is to keep learning new things: https://moviewise.substack.com/p/going-through-an-existential-crisis https://moviewise.substack.com/p/going-through-an-existentia...

marban 4y ago
I would add The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
- iancmceachern 4y ago
  And also Birdman

csdvrx 4y ago

> Selflessness is overrated. We respectable types, although women especially, are raised to think a life well spent means helping others – and plenty of self-help gurus stand ready to affirm that kindness, generosity and volunteering are the route to happiness. There’s truth here, but it generally gets tangled up with deep-seated) issues of guilt and self-esteem. (Meanwhile, of course, the people who boast all day on Twitter about their charity work or political awareness aren’t being selfless at all; they are burnishing their egos.) > If you’re prone to thinking you should be helping more, that’s probably a sign that you could afford to direct more energy to your idiosyncratic ambitions and enthusiasms This also applies to free software! Do things for your own selfish desires! Last week, I was asked if I have ever written about my work. The answer was no: I'm not much into social media or self promotion, because everything was written for myself and my selfish needs first. I genuinely don't care if people like what I do: If they do, good, they can leech and use my work, if they don't... That's good too! I don't care much more than that, as there are many fun things to try hacking (right now getting i915 to work on a lakefield) and time is in limited supply :)