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My God that is impressive. You seem like you tried to make it sound easy with your last paragraph. Technically speaking, what were the top three most impactful things you mastered on the journey to where you are? In terms of employment, hav
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One of the most powerful life hacks I've discovered is management of rejection sensitivity/expectation of rejection. CBT can help. Also, surprisingly, Tylenol... https://www.healthline.com/health-news/mental-t
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I think both approaches work. Like, most people survive with a to-do loop just in their brains, stochastically prioritizing and picking tasks to do as circumstances change. The difficulty comes in when a person either doesn't have the
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On the Origin of Circuits(damninteresting.com)
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Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. I just started playing with three.js. No game dev experience. It is so easy to use. My goal is to create a personal memory palace app. My wife and I are winding up to learn Blender together so we can collabora
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Yeah, a big part of being social is about stifling the expectation of rejection. No one is going to yell at you for asking how their day was. No one is going to call the cops if you send them a text "Hey, wanted to catch up. How's
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Preet Chandi is touted as the first female of color to ski the South Pole solo. She was, in line with the pattern, boosted by her military training. That takes nothing from her accomplishment but rather gives further insight into what the h
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Excuse my useless comment but lol
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I have no idea why but paper is just different. My wife has been doing art on her iPad. She noticed the same thing. She found these amazing textured matte screen protectors that give a little microscopic bounce like pen to paper. That may b
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Thank you for the encouragement. I think that might actually help me reduce the risk aversion I feel about it now.
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Is the benefit of Ethereum really larger than the value these intelligent people could be creating in non-crypto industries? I see the allure. They're super hard, super high-stakes problems. Is there really no other industry that provi
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The universe is declarative. We just happen to be stuck with state machine interpreters in our skulls that can only parse one moment at a time.
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I lost a pocket journal once at a bus stop in the rain. It was thick with thoughts and ramblings and personal information. It was devastating. It was one of my favorite habits but I never took it up again. It's like a pet died or somet
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1. I make mind maps and do inline annotation a la marginalia. 2. I haven't figured out a process for compilation but my plan is to condense big concepts into readable texts with the intent of sharing them with others. 3. Spaced repetit
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I was one of those ad sign kids as a teenager. It was mentally brutal. Thank God for podcasts.
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The alternate ending changes the tenor of the entire film with just one line of dialogue. Peter is probably dissatisfied on a deeper level than any job could fix. Maybe he would find meaning as an entrepreneur or travelling or dropping out.
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Here's a more readable version for mobile: https://observablehq.com/@iz/the-design-and-long-term-use-of... No images. Coincidentally, a lot of what is explored in this text is what I spend a chunk of my time doing
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I've seen it used in a malicious way at that same company. I'm out of my element here but I'll add that I sense that it's an aspect of one's autonomy about their identity. "In the narrative of my life, I connec
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The idea of baseline happiness makes sense to me. I generally live at a 7-8 out of 10 and always bounce back to that level no matter what happens. Many of my friends are around that tier. My wife is 7-6. She sometimes seems incredulous abou
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Thanks for saying so. I felt sooo shitty once when I accidentally deadnamed a colleague when running a mass email script at an old job. I even had it in mind as I wrote the script and still messed it up. I apologized immediately and tried t
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by nefitty 5y ago
Good point. I wouldn't call it "infatuation" though. It's more like an expansion of language toward inclusivity. Rather than infatuation, it's a progression or evolution.
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I think the marketing got ahead of the tech. I would classify that as a business failure.
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That's a great point. I guess hype made my expectations unrealistic. I have it on my to-do list to get the habit going again. I'll try this weekend! I've wanted to do a retreat very badly. I would need to work to organize my
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I think Watson does something like this.
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Here's a notebook that fetches Sci-Hub mirrors from Wikidata and tests them. I also included an iOS Shortcut to add to your Share screen. When you're on a site that Sci-Hub recognizes and you use the shortcut it will try to fetch
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Several trips. Microdosing for weeks. It helped me understand Alan Watts. No real impact on the existential terror thing.
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I respect that. I don't respect seemingly intelligent people bullshitting their participation farther beneath technical obscurantism. I mean, some of these people seem like hyper-intelligent savants, but then again, I guess Wall Treet
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Yes. I missed putting on the History channel and just letting it run all day and night. Pluto TV made that possible again and it's free. RiffTrax, MST3K, Pluto History, Pluto Science, and on and on. I hat the stress of trying to figure
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I thought so too. I have at least 150 hrs of meditation under my belt. I can't say I'm worse or better, just another silly thing for my ego to carry around. Take it from me. Ignoring your mortality is a lot easier.
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Kotler's The Rise of Superman goes into how some these meta-performance skills are a big part of what's being transferred more and more effectively. There's young kids doing mind blowing things in extreme sports like skateboa

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