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by Desafinado 3y ago
Working on my mental health involves the following: - healthy, fresh food - regular exercise - no alcohol or drugs (none) - staying on good terms with family and friends I think counsellors can be helpful if you're in the early stages
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by Desafinado 3y ago
You'll get far more value out of reading academic books in topics you're interested in. Wikipedia is good for brief, quick summaries. But to actually understand a topic in depth it's the easy way out. You need to put the work
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by Desafinado 3y ago
- Adaptive Asset Allocation and The Intelligent Asset Allocator - Define what your long term goal is then work backward, doing the math - Risk isn't the risk that you lose money, it's the risk that you won't reach your long-t
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by Desafinado 3y ago
Anything by Merwin Crawford Young, early Zen Buddhist texts, Anthony Giddens, Peter Berger, the Tao te Ching, Max Weber, Norbert Elias, Nisargadatta Maharaj
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by Desafinado 3y ago
Thanks. In my current role there's not much flexibility to use new technologies (basically nil), but the salary/benefits make it too good of a deal to leave. So I'm left with the tradeoff of my skills decaying while getting r
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Ask HN: Advanced topics of study for senior developers
8 points by Desafinado 3y ago|6 comments
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by Desafinado 3y ago
FWIW, the business I'm talking about was a fortune 500 with many well educated people. They still had no idea what they were doing. I've worked for four businesses now and in that time I've seen a lot of people with no unders
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by Desafinado 3y ago
This business and these business people that you're taking very seriously all have no idea what they're doing. You'll understand this in about 5 years from now.
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by Desafinado 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_That
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by Desafinado 3y ago
It's also important to recognize that corporations aren't a thing that can care about you in the same way an individual could. You're better off not thinking of them as having any form of central agency. They evolve and chang
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by Desafinado 3y ago
Almost everyone you come across will go out of their way for you in direct proportion to how valuable you are to them. You'll rarely experience any form of self sacrifice from anyone. And the reverse of this is, you can set yourself ap