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by SMAAART 5y ago
Of course! It's the "Do as I say, not as I do" Doctrine aka "Rules apply to everyone else but me".
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by SMAAART 5y ago
Forget being happy. Happiness is a high, therefore temporary. Seek satisfaction, satisfaction from a job well done after long hard hours of work. OP touches on this in: > 2. Do things you are bad at - Learning makes us feel alive. Challe
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by SMAAART 5y ago
What if I suffered psychological harm as a result from reading this article? Who's going to be held responsible? HN? Twitter? The Times? The author? All of the above?
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by SMAAART 5y ago
Half of the people in Congress don't really understand what this is all about; the other half who understands, uses Signal.
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by SMAAART 5y ago
"Shoot the messenger" what a great strategy! /-s
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This is a trend, not a fad. A megatrend!
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What's after singularity?
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by SMAAART 5y ago
Long time ago I took the time to unfollow 99% of my "Facebook Friends" and get out of groups and pages that were of no interest to me. So now I follow a handful of friends and a few pages of interest to me, it's quite interes
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by SMAAART 5y ago
Not a Software Engineer here, but in Operation here: 1. This is great advice 2. The overall spirit applies to any and all roles across any company. 3. YMMV
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by SMAAART 5y ago
>In addition to stranding billions of users, the Facebook outage also has stranded its employees from communicating with one another using their internal Facebook tools. That’s because Facebook’s email and tools are all managed in house
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by SMAAART 5y ago
It's as funny as it is true. At times humor gets deeper than serious talk. Thank you for the comment.
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Good perspective. Thanks.
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I used to be in therapy for Depression, and I am now Depression-free. That's another story. I have moved to another state and I no longer have access to that therapist that was great to say the least. Eventually (I know procrastinatio
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by SMAAART 5y ago
> The anxiety is a negative feedback loop.. good way to put it. I have tried CBT and I am going to get the 2 books that you mentioned. > For example, when you notice yourself typing "reddit.com" or something into your browse
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by SMAAART 5y ago
Thank you for the quite interesting comment. While I know Pressfield's The War of Art very well, I am new to Fiore's; and thank you for the link to the summary. I am going to have to chew on "decouple any self-judgment or sel
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by SMAAART 5y ago
LOL
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Ask HN: Procrastination, What's Up with That?
17 points by SMAAART 5y ago|14 comments
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FOLLOW-UP: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." Thank you everyone for chiming in with your high quality comments, I read and re-read them them all three time, and I
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I don't have crippling Anxiety, but Anxiety is crippling me
16 points by SMAAART 5y ago|15 comments
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It has been a while. Also now, when a conversation is archived it remains archived even if someone in that group posts something. Before when someone in an archived conversation posted something the conversation would be unarchived.
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by SMAAART 5y ago
A friend did some consulting for them a couple of year ago, this is a broad summary of events: - contacted - discussed scope of work, grandiose, with big budget - Evergrande people pressured the company to start doing work before the contra
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by SMAAART 5y ago
Evolution of offline information networks: Printing press -> Radio -> Television Evolution of online information networks: Blogs -> Podcasts -> Videos What is interesting is that: 1. Podcasts > Videos since they can be consum
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by SMAAART 5y ago
Price's law: the square root of the population produces 50% of the trouble. Apply that to the US (328.2 million people) and we have that 18,116 individuals are responsible for 50% of problems. Mic drop
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Any brainstorming apps that are not mindmapping?
4 points by SMAAART 5y ago|2 comments
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LOL, this is beautiful!
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What we have here is a unique, unprecedented, real life experiment in Game Theory. Possible outcomes: - Uber could pull out from the Netherlands - Drivers in the Netherlands could organize themselves, but they will need a structure similar
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by SMAAART 5y ago
TL;DR: do it! But do it strategically. The good news is that you're young at merely 27. More good news: you have a someone financing you, your current job. Think about being an Artist as being an entrepreneur running your own startup,
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by SMAAART 5y ago
Is there an app like "virtual lawyer" of some sort where the user can enter where they are and get coached about their rights and obligations?
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Digital Minimalism: What are the alternative to screen time?
58 points by SMAAART 5y ago|53 comments
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So, what are the alternative to Social Media? What if we expand to include TV? Actually "TV" is so 1999; these are all wrong question, the correct question is: What are the alternative to replace "screens"? Books (ink o

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