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by temp234 5y ago
I guess I would recommend some self-compassion, first of all, because this is a historically miserable time and you are muddling through the same as everyone else. The pandemic may not be the time in your management career when employees se
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by temp234 5y ago
Interestingly, if we are talking about actual, diagnosed, non-colloquial, real-bad-if-it-goes-untreated OCD... Jon Herschfield is a good writer about OCD who has it himself and this article series he wrote mentions some OCD manifestations t
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by temp234 5y ago
You are right that Facebook gets engagement by irritating people, but this isn't an example of obsessive compulsive behavior on the part of the user, just negativity bias maybe. OCD is a specific and potentially life-ruining condition
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by temp234 5y ago
> We are planning to follow the same pattern. I'm curious, why? It seems like you could just do the third step since that's the only one you feel confident you'll do well, and it also gives you the most information about w
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by temp234 5y ago
On an iPhone in the YouTube app settings I was able to set up an alert that gave me a reminder every few minutes to take a break. You can customize the number of minutes. After a while with this alert I was watching a lot less YouTube and d
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by temp234 5y ago
Does anybody have any reading recommendations or thoughts on the topic of how people _with_ drilled or otherwise refined skills can turn into people who come up with and complete mature creative projects? In creative contexts I know a lot o
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by temp234 5y ago
The longer I am around the more I realize that pretty much every knowledge worker field or creative field is just about having a rocking public portfolio and passing the van/line/airport test: "Would you want to be stuck in a
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by temp234 5y ago
Somebody, create a forum for smartphone abandoners that doesn't work on mobile?
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by temp234 5y ago
Yeah... I was going to go with "4. yes and it was horrifying so I'm back to no"
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by temp234 5y ago
Mediocrity is subjective. If you were to describe your ideal life to me, I could find someone who would think it sounded unimpressive. Most people shrink their world until their actions feel like they have meaning. Rich, smart, and powerful
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by temp234 5y ago
Got to do your due diligence (what's the work? how to you plan and track work? are priorities stable? is crunch rare to nonexistent?) but yes, it's always a bet. If it's another bad fit, keep hoping and hopping. Maybe use you
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by temp234 5y ago
"Rather there will be patches of interest that you hook on, like a mountain climber and handholds." Really great way of describing it
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by temp234 5y ago
Really glad I found a few all-ages communities and deep interests outside of my university friends and tech job. Really glad I stayed in good shape. Maffetone, heart rate monitor, nutrition. Really glad I kept eating omelettes when I could
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by temp234 5y ago
Really sorry you're going through a hard time. I would try not to see any of this as a puzzle to solve or evidence to ruminate on about who is actually the bad one here. It doesn't matter whether your manager is bad or you're
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by temp234 5y ago
Ha! After quitting social media, I thought, "Hm, I still waste time online but now I waste it in more interesting ways." Hoping a smartphone relationship rethink yields similar benefits.
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by temp234 5y ago
Thanks, this thread was great.
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Ask HN: Did you fully or partially quit smartphones?
13 points by temp234 5y ago|11 comments
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by temp234 5y ago
You have a good attitude. Prestige colleges are a lot of things, including brands, and it's in their interest to have everyone develop a tender-age psychological sore spot over whether they're worthy of the brand. Not the other wa
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by temp234 5y ago
There are a few really specific situations where I would advise you to only attempt if armed with the most insufferably prestigious degrees possible (if you wanted to be a humanities professor at Oxford, for example), but for most industrie
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by temp234 5y ago
This is an incredibly interesting question but I have no idea how you would ever be able to figure out the answer. What defines a data set? What about huge data sets that reference back to a relatively small mapping table, is that one big d
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by temp234 5y ago
Beyond scalability, I think the biggest things you could bring to the scientists here would be test driven development and logs. You won't become a Matlab expert on a deadline and they may not actually be Matlab experts either. Tests a
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by temp234 5y ago
I use a similar wooden chair or, when just a laptop is fine, sit or squat on the floor. It's a shoes-off house and a nice carpet that I reckon gets cleaned more often than most expensive desk chair seats. I think the floor time improve
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by temp234 5y ago
Nobody communicates at their best or perceives everything correctly when they're anxious and feeling like an imposter. Based on what you have written here I would not conclude that you are inherently a bad or slow communicator. I would
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by temp234 5y ago
It can be hard, yes. I would look into research assistant roles at large universities. They will be forgiving of a gap year, they routinely take on people that want to use the role to get recommendation letters for MBA, MA, or PhD work. So