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n=1, but I don't have any mental association between "mob" and being Irish, and I don't feel comfortable reading that intent into the original tweets without stronger evidence.
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To add more color to the Buddhist view, this is often described as a pain/suffering distinction. In this view, pain is inevitable and out of our control, but suffering as the attendant mental phenomenon can be curbed with training. Thi
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I use the term "perfectionism" to describe the space of behaviors around the traditional description. Like any generalization it can be expanded so much that it includes everything. But what separates perfectionism from normal fal
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Unlearning perfectionism(arunkprasad.com)
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I'm glad the article hits the central point that what is valuable about this change is the rise of the non-corporate internet. And fundamentally, what is valuable about non-corporate spaces (in my view) is that we have social ownersh
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It's difficult to answer this question in the abstract because "meditation" as a descriptor is about as general as "exercise." Even at the level of philosophical schools there's secular mindfulness meditation,
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I was curious and gave it a search. It's hardly a high quality source, but: https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-news-joe-rogan-seem... Per the chart, Rogan has 11m viewers per episode compared to 3.24m for Tu
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I agree with the spirit of this. If you want serious long-form substance that is the product of months or years of careful effort, it's hard to beat a book. Usually the best long-form content I've found online (e.g. [1]) is itself
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Here are some reasons people find retreat environments helpful: - Change of setting loosens pre-existing habits (compare working in an office to working from home) - Being surrounded by people doing the same thing as you can be a great sour
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Thank you! Happy to have a reader. The topics meander a bit (as they should, since it's a personal blog), but I hope you find something you enjoy.
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TMI has rightfully become a classic meditation book and it's one I still recommend, but at the risk of stirring the pot, I think it's important for new readers to be aware of the author's major improprieties, which led to h
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Congratulations! Really wonderful to see small businesses and small teams succeed. As an aside, I'm curious if anyone has thought through the ethics of scraping through rotating proxies. Clearly the scraped website doesn't want ma
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- Block most social media, including Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube (!). I can always unblock them if I need to, but having them be "default blocked" means I'm more intentional about when and how I use them. - Do one hour of ex
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This is a wonderful one. I'm doing something similar by blogging every day, and the discipline and accountability from it have been really powerful so far. How long have you been writing a tweet a day for?
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I thought this post paired well with "How to Be Useless" from earlier today, which focuses specifically on the Zhuangzi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29945952 And given that my other recent post was about
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“Ting the Cook” from the Zhuangzi(arunkprasad.com)
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I didn't answer this cleanly in the post, but I don't there is such a thing. The perfect todo list is the one you can get yourself in the habit of using every day. And that varies from person to person. For me, that was a text fil
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I decided to take you up on that vicariously and spent most of the evening reading my copy again. How refreshing it is! I'm sure you have your own copy, but here is my transcription of the story about Ting the cook from chapter 3: htt
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Here is another passage I love. I hope you enjoy it: https://arunkprasad.com/log/ting-the-cook-from-the-zhuangzi/
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Indeed! Paul Graham, Sam Altman, and a few others I list in my post all use todo lists. [edit] Sorry, I misunderstood your comment. I agree, they might be outsourcing this to an admin of some kind.
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I fully agree with your first two paragraphs. > I have a theory that the solution to this problem is for professionals (not just software engineers!) to write their own productivity apps I agree with this in theory -- I love tools, tooli
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Thank you! That's encouraging to hear.
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Thank you for this wonderful comment. I'm especially struck by that word "fundamentals," as I think their very ordinariness makes them easy to neglect. I tried working through some of that conceptual space here: https:/
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by akprasad 5y ago
This looks like a great article, but I believe I first saw it here (& thanks to pelagicAustral for finding it): http://www.sirc.org/publik/drinking5.html And there's some related HN discussion on the article h
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Thank you! I think the first is where I first read it.
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I completely agree! And I myself use a to-do list. I mention these just to illustrate why some might disagree that to-do lists are obvious.
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I wish I could source it, but I recall reading an anthropological study of drinking that mentioned that solo drinking is universally shunned across all cultures. There's also something perverse about associating this with Zen given tha
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OP here. Here were my needs: - I need to get into the habit of using it every day. - I need to like using it. For me, a lack of friction is vital. - I need something flexible enough for me to add extra detail if I need it (e.g. notes) or
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by akprasad 5y ago
OP here. I think this is completely correct. And I ended up using the same system as you -- plain text in Vim. For me, it's super low-friction and I see it all the time, so it's easy to make it habitual.
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OP here. When I compare email to, for example, being an IC and using JIRA/Trello, there seems to be a natural analogy in that there's an inbox of items you have to respond to. And more power to you for knowing what works for you a

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