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by ck425 9y ago
I also enjoy Tim Ferris, but other great alternatives are Mr Money Mustache and Cal Newport. Their particularly good as they concentrate on maximising money/happiness and time/concentration.
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by ck425 9y ago
"While timing is everything for a startup, it takes deliberate effort to build an addictive app" Anyone else deeply uncomfortable with this? Not a useful app, an addictive app. :/
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by ck425 9y ago
Why is it considered ok to regulate technology without understanding it? Even Jeremy Hunt claims to understand the papers he used to justify more weekend services for the NHS. Osborne tried to justify austerity as an answer to the recession
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by ck425 9y ago
I personally enjoy his style. MMM is clearly a character that he plays and is deliberately provocative. There are other more level headed financial independence blogs out there but I don't find any of them as entertaining as MMM.
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by ck425 9y ago
His point of view is that those perks don't justify the commute. I'm personally inclined to agree with him having tried both. There's a fair amount of research suggesting short commutes are good for mental health and the effe
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by ck425 9y ago
I'm not suggesting there is one, I'm deliberately not taking a view on that. What I am saying is that if one does exist, as some commenters are saying, we're likely still not there yet as many other similar industries have fa
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by ck425 9y ago
You might not expect the gender and ethnic background proportions to 100% reflect society (I won't get into that) but even if that's the case Software Engineering is far more skewed than most comparable industries (science academi
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by ck425 9y ago
Today I finished unfollowing everything on my fb feed. Now it's just 5 or 6 ads, some relevant, some not. I'm curious to see if this cures the addiction.
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by ck425 9y ago
The airline industry is on the whole a zero sum industry, but there's a huge difference in profits/losses between the many airlines worldwide. So some do make huge profits while most struggle constantly.
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by ck425 9y ago
In what way is it a poverty lifestyle? It's about maximising the quality of life to money ratio.
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by ck425 9y ago
I don't think the parent was referring to making money via start ups. Just get a decently paid engineering job and live frugally.
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by ck425 9y ago
You can live indefinitely on way less a million. :) http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
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by ck425 9y ago
If you're genuinely spending £400 pcm on just food then you really need to sort your budgeting out. Especially in retirement, when you've way more time to cook big meals and freeze stuff.
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by ck425 9y ago
None that work with Chrome Android though. :(
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by ck425 9y ago
He explicitly says near the start of his article that he disagrees with the views on gender differences that the memo espouces, and that he's not getting into then because others are more qualified to do so.
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by ck425 9y ago
Except that adapter has a max voltage of 0.5v IIRC, which significantly reduces the quality of any high impedance headphones.
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by ck425 9y ago
That last part happened to me at one point. Thankfully me and another colleague it happened to fought against it consistently until it managers stopped using it openly as a metric.
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by ck425 9y ago
This isn't really a new idea anymore. I'd be curious to read what the book covers beyond what Born to Run did.
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by ck425 9y ago
Personally I'm fan of Google's Office Suite because it works so nicely via web browser, regardless of device type. It makes the device and OS irrelevant.
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by ck425 9y ago
Yeah, this. Spelling fail.
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by ck425 9y ago
The company I work for at the moment has two values/myths that have worked really well at preventing situations like this. Early on, just before I joined at around the 150 person stage, the employees self organized values. One of these
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by ck425 9y ago
I can't find a link but there was an article here recently where researchers had concluded strong relationships contributed to better self control and thus had a knock on effect on health.
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by ck425 9y ago
Having done musical theater as my main hobby for almost 8 years I can thoroughly recommend it for that exact purpose. There's something about singing with folks and sharing a stage that leads very quickly to strong deep social bonds. I
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by ck425 9y ago
By workplace drinking do you mean drinking in the office during work or drinking with colleagues (potentially also in the office but out of working hours)? I'd agree with the later and no one's suggesting that but I think the latt
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by ck425 9y ago
I'd argue the dark underside comes from your puritanical attitude towards drinking. I went to Uni here in the UK with a lot of Americans. What always stood out was how stupidly drunk they got and how proud they were of it, as if they w
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by ck425 9y ago
To play devils advocate if he doesn't mean any harm by it and everyone's aware he doesn't, is it still an issue?
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by ck425 9y ago
It's not the lack of alcohol, it's because HR are dictating culture. Beyond health and safety, the law or contractual obligations HR shouldn't be dictating this. We're all adults, use your best judgement. Companies and o
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by ck425 9y ago
I do both nowadays but completely agree. I started drinking Huel for breakfast and lunch around 8 months ago and the difference in energy levels when I only have 500 calories (exactly weighed out) is huge. Every month or so I go out for lun
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by ck425 9y ago
I've regularly taken naps at lunch too and found they make a big difference to afternoon productivity. I've found walking also has a similar effects, especially on grass. I normally do one or the other depending on how well I slep
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by ck425 9y ago
How do I know what to tip? How do I estimate before getting an uber how much it's going to cost? Tipping is the worst part of visiting the US. You go to restaurant and the menu for your meal says $x, but it's not $x, it's $x

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