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by krrishd 9y ago
#6 Competing with boredom is easier than competing with Facebook + Google ^ this one stood out as a particularly strong point -- there's a finite amount of time people have to burn on apps for non-utilitarian purposes, and social netwo
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Ask HN: Do people “Add to Home Screen” enough for PWAs to be worth it?
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Can Amazon Be the Next Apple?(nytimes.com)
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Ask HN: What are your most valuable habits?
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by krrishd 9y ago
Yep, no editing is intentional, for that it's best to copy/paste into somewhere better optimized for that experience (working on adding export functionality). Also just a note: everything is stored locally within your browser, so
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by krrishd 9y ago
I'm proud of having made http://write.itskrish.co -- it's a stream-of-consciousness journalling/writing tool built in React. The "stream-of-consciousness" bit is enabled by the two key features: you choo
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by krrishd 9y ago
My motivations constantly change (and are therefore not the best foundation for action), BUT, right now I'd say that I'm motivated by whatever enables me to stay upwind. I'm always finding myself interested in new things (and
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by krrishd 9y ago
If you blatantly told the consumer, yes. However, most of the privacy-risking utility barely reminds us of what we're giving up, so really it feels like we're losing nothing and gaining utility. The lack of privacy has to feel tan
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by krrishd 9y ago
> it's something people want I feel the same as you do, but are we sure that the mainstream public actually WANTS privacy, especially when compared to the utility companies are providing by taking it away?
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by krrishd 9y ago
Right now I've been enjoying the quality of writing (as well as value of the content) on http://www.meltingasphalt.com/; it's a mix of philosophy, psychology, econ, and tech (with various other stuff sprinkled in)
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Ask HN: What's your favorite blog?
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Ask HN: What's your most frequently used mental model?
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by krrishd 9y ago
I find this super-interesting because I do the same thing (and made a tool out of it at http://write.itskrish.co ) and it works for me just as it does for her. For me it's just nice to have everything in my mind formally lai
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by krrishd 9y ago
I feel you, I still briefly log-in to post blog posts + music that I work on, and a significant majority of my professional network came from a select few Facebook communities that I was heavily involved in a few years ago. So yeah I think
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by krrishd 9y ago
That's fair, although I consider HN a value-add when I use it (once in the morning). You're right though; if it ends up being a habit to check randomly, it causes a lot of the same problems social media does.
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Ask HN: How do you de-clutter your mind?
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by krrishd 9y ago
Haha yup, my excuse is that HN directs me to a lot of long-form content with tangible value instead of throwing shit at me that'd only serve the purpose of keeping me coming back.
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by krrishd 9y ago
I recently stopped using all of my social media, inspired by Cal Newport's Deep Work, and this resonates deeply with me. At risk of sounding like an out-of-touch baby boomer (I'm 18), I think the portrayed utility of staying conne
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by krrishd 9y ago
Thanks for the comprehensive answer, all good stuff to look at :)
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Ask HN: How does a UI specialist transition to AR/VR?
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Ask HN: What are you trying to learn right now?
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by krrishd 9y ago
> I don't imagine many people put their experiment/education projects in their portfolio I highly disagree, experiment/education projects aren't necessarily low-quality by default, so I don't see why they wouldn&
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by krrishd 9y ago
I think it's been taken down, but the Startup Engineering MOOC on Coursera taught by Balaji Srinivasan (of Stanford + a16z) was extremely valuable to go through, both from a technical and non-technical standpoint. It was kinda like the
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Ask HN: Is there a freelance market for custom UI prototypes?
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Ask HN: Do you keep track of personal growth? If so, how?
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Ask HN: Do you journal for therapeutic purposes?
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Ask HN: Is therapy accessible in its current state?
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by krrishd 10y ago
I've been keeping a journal for a while (mainly for therapeutic purposes). I've given it a shot several times but have failed in the past, but what has made it easy to keep up as a routine this time around is a finite duration to
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by krrishd 10y ago
The accuracy of this struck a chord; when I was at my lowest point during depression one of the worst symptoms was that I no longer enjoyed what I thought I liked (making things, in my case particularly with tech). What helped me slowly fin
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by krrishd 10y ago
I'd be interested in working in media and/or politics given how significant their impacts are (and how rapidly things are changing). It'd be far less likely to work out but I'd also love to be able to professionally prod

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