ashleypt

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by ashleypt 10y ago
hmm. on my own without much money to bootstrap with I'm just focusing on getting the mvp out. if it fails, I'll just write another app/pivot based on both feedback and empirical testing. I think that's the conventional w
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by ashleypt 10y ago
you have a lot of interesting thoughts and a depth of experience in these subjects - if you could get better at the presentation aspect I think you'd have a lot to offer people. I come from more of a taoist background, when I read the
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by ashleypt 10y ago
>I'm specifically using pain and suffering because I am not talking in metaphors and I am not trying to dress it up or down. I am not trying to comfort myself or others, and I am not trying to ennoble this. I am not trying to put li
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by ashleypt 10y ago
for me, yeah, meditation and exercise has helped quite a lot because they both directly reward and reinforce accepting struggle or challenge very shortly after doing it and the effect builds through persistence. I don't like to call it
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by ashleypt 10y ago
Yeah the fixed mindset has really crippled me in my life. I was one of those "gifted" kids (to be fair, I do have a pretty high IQ, but fixed mindset is bad for high-IQ individuals too) and I couldn't even stick with video ga
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Ask HN: How do you organize your thoughts with kb/mouse?
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by ashleypt 10y ago
Packaging winds for sandstorm.io https://github.com/GetStream/Winds https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm
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by ashleypt 10y ago
Thanks so much for posting! This has inspired me to take my learning and future work far more seriously (along with reading war of art last night) from now on my goal is to be an engineer and a businesswoman first and foremost, with the goa
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Ask HN: What does the more intensive work in Rails/similar look like?
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by ashleypt 10y ago
also has many great long term benefits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurobiological_effects_of_phy... have you tried meditation too? exercise works great for me but it can also make me tense if I overdo it. meditation
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by ashleypt 10y ago
look up hammock driven development on youtube by that clojure guy. covers this in depth
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by ashleypt 10y ago
you're grouping a lot of things together there you seem to not know much about. some of them are actually supposed to combat the internal conflict you're referring to, like meditation. also seriously? CBT and mindfulness being c
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by ashleypt 10y ago
I think a lot of people are getting confused about 'cure' vs 'management.' In my case it helped with neither. SSRIs only /treat/ (not cure) a deficiency of serotonin, which for some people is all they need. I t