thenerdhead

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by thenerdhead 5y ago
Fair enough. It is what it is.
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by thenerdhead 5y ago
The whole point of the two categories is to be able to break down problems into actionable behaviors. You won't be able to solve world hunger by yourself. But you can help by donating a meal today. You won't be able to solve obscu
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by thenerdhead 5y ago
Look into stoicism. Everything you are describing is core to the dichotomy of control: “The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, an
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by thenerdhead 5y ago
When I was 12 it was Counter Strike & World of Warcraft. Nobody knew how to install weapon skins, sprays, or custom maps, so I learned how to do that & taught people in my clan how. Nobody knew how to organize 40 player raids, so I
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by thenerdhead 5y ago
At times like this, determination is going to separate the good version of yourself from the great version of yourself. Burning out is hard to recover from (if at all). You've already done quite a bit by being able to name it. There&#x
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by thenerdhead 5y ago
Writing unlike coding can use repetition in ways that are valuable to the reader where they wouldn't be valuable to the program (DRY principles). The concept about delivering value in a given span of time for writing is great and in co
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by thenerdhead 5y ago
There was a minute when big tech cared to take responsibility with screen time / internet addiction concerns. But somehow through the pandemic that has disappeared when we need it the most. I think it will require an extension of the &
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by thenerdhead 5y ago
I have tried this many times in the past. The problem I have had with internet addiction is that the phone itself is the cue, craving, response, & reward. I had to resort to locking my phone in one of those timed kitchen containers to m
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by thenerdhead 5y ago
I'm sorry, but at 7500 words, this is more of a novella than a summary. The summary at the end of the book is shorter than this blog post and contains the big takeaways. I love this book as much as the other person does, but there are
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by thenerdhead 5y ago
This feels like a common theme for videos, blogs, etc of the whole "I wasted my 20s or 30s". You’ve probably heard the old analogy that there is an imbalance of our time, money, and energy depending on what stage we are in through