We cannot rule those who want nothing Bimilui Soop (TV Series 2017â ) - Trivia - IMDb
But then I moved. Moved to the big city, a place filled with people themselves big on compliments. My upbringing had left me underprepared for these changes. Even something as simple as receiving praise was complicated. There certainly were times when my soul would be lit up with joy. But other times, my feelings were murkier. The compliment left me feeling weirdly uncomfortable. How to Compliment | Less Penguiny
My relationship to compliments in those days was simple: I didnât give any and I didnât receive any either. Talking openly about feelings - or heaven forbid - giving praise - simply wasnât the norm. This was especially so with the older generation, people like my granddad. How to Compliment | Less Penguiny
To assume youâre below average is to admit youâre still learning. I assume Iâm below average | Derek Sivers
Money makes people happier than psychotherapy. 52 things I learned in 2020. This year I edited another book, worked⊠| by Tom Whitwell | Fluxx Studio Notes | Dec, 2020 | Medium
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life. Follow Your Curiosity. Read Your Ass Off | Hacker News
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Being misunderstood is a great temporary moat. I could write a book on this, but suffice it to say, I didnât have confidence in my own vision until I took the time to really look at others and realized that the main difference between me and the average idiot was that I had bothered to look at the ideas of other idiots at all. It was like their entire ontology had become an ant farm. It was the moment I realized, I am a super-idiot. I only half joke, because becoming a super-idiot liberated me from the perfectionism and the addiction to approval that caused a stultifying and primal narcissistic fear of criticism. If you are struggling with this, take it from someone on the other side of it: Itâs ok, youâre an idiot. The Strength of Being Misunderstood | Hacker News
Well, thatâs what this series is going to be about. How, what you think the universe is and how you react to that, in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes.And that is as true for the whole of society as it is for the individual. We all are what we all know today. What we knew yesterday was different. And so were we. The day the Universe changed
Weâre the skate witches and we donât take NO crap from NO one. Skate Witches: The true story | Dangerous Minds
Iâve lived with me long enough to know that he needs two reasons to do a thing, one reason is never enough. #110: 2021 Yearly Themes - YouTube
Somebody apparently once went up the the great philosopher Wittgenstein and said âWhat a lot of morons people back in the Middle Ages must have been to have looked every morning at whatâs going on behind me now, the dawn, and to have thought that what they were seeing was the sun going around the Earth, when as every schoolkid knows the Earth goes around the sun and it doesnât take too many brains to understand that.â To which Wittgenstein replied, âYeah, but I wonder what it would have looked like if the Sun had been going around the Earth.â Point being, of course, is that it would have looked exactly the same. swans on tea » You See What Your Knowledge Tells You Youâre Seeing
Thereâs a standard way to understand the relative danger of any activity. âA micromort is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death â Risk: micromorts, microCOVIDs, and skydiving (Interconnected)
Thereâs a standard way to understand the relative danger of any activity. âA micromort is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death â Risk: micromorts, microCOVIDs, and skydiving (Interconnected)
Thereâs a standard way to understand the relative danger of any activity. âA micromort is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death â Risk: micromorts, microCOVIDs, and skydiving (Interconnected)
It doesnât take long before the high performers on those teams get sick of picking up the slack. The high performers move on to companies that care, while the teamâs output continues to decline as everyone pushes the boundaries of how little work they can get away with. Eventually management wonders why certain teams have so many people but so little output, ârestructuringâ occurs to trim the slackers, and the hiring cycle starts again to build the teams back up. What changes when you work outside an office? | Hacker News
Western culture has a very unhealthy attitude towards sleep in general. There is only one socially accepted sleep pattern: Eight hours a night, in one block, starting at between 10pm and 11pm and ending between 6am and 7am. This âearly-birdâ rhythm is celebrated in to the point of fetishisation and held up as the goal to which all productive adults must aspire. To behave otherwise is to be lazy, slothful, and not putting forward your all Itâs Time to Stop Nap-Shaming | Hacker News
Whenever I feel like going off my diet, I just go to my happy place. The snack drawer. You Canât Out-Train Your Diet â Believe Me | by J.J. Pryor | BeingWell | Nov, 2020 | Medium
I applaud this, but I also advise against this for your career. Unless the change youâre making has immediate and significant business benefits, from a PM/EM perspective youâre 1) wasting time 2) potentially introducing bugs. The correct move is to wait until the org is so bogged down with tech debt that meaningful progress cannot be made, then switch companies/teams. Always leave the code better than you found it | Hacker News
Insisting that your company with 200+ employees will only hire people who will work themselves to the bone without any mention of how those people will be properly compensated is wild corporate propaganda. Hire people who give a shit | Hacker News
New repository: aquilax/hugo-task-management - Using Hugo as a task management system
Halving requirements is the same as doubling capacity. - Nigel Calder Hundred Rabbits â off the grid
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all âNothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at allâ*⊠| (Roughly) Daily
The benefits of the stochastic life are clear. It is quicker and cheaper than almost any other system. The results are guaranteed to be fair (across the population). And it is impossible to cheat or influence. Living the Stochastic Life â Terence Edenâs Blog
Pornography and prostitution are popular because they arrive at sexual end goals, or a reasonable facsimile, with more clarity and lower costs than in the mating market. Uncanny Vulvas â DIANAVERSE
If thereâs one phenomenon that marks the modern era more than any other, itâs the replacement of the relational with the transactional. The rise of platonic co-parenting | Hacker News
No amount of belief makes something a fact this isnât happinessâą (âNo amount of belief makes something a fact.â ââŠ), Peteski
To paraprashe Mr. Engelbart: itâs a failed tool if you use it exactly the same way the day you bought it and a year after. Re-Thinking the Desktop OS | Hacker News
I dread package upgrades because it can instantly turn into an all-hands-on-deck emergency, and these are just the stand-alone packages, not all the ones I mentioned above. Webpack 5 | Hacker News
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesnât go away âReality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesnât go awayâ*⊠| (Roughly) Daily
There is a palpable difference between the universe described by many religions and the universe described by science. The former is all built from concepts rooted in human society such as father, son, judgment, commandment, obedience, sacrifice, punishment etc. The latter is built from eerie ideas such as force field, wavefunction, observable, reference frame, superposition etc. The former feels small, ordinary, familiar and manmade. The latter feels like weâre fumbling for words to describe something that fundamentally transcends ordinary human experience. 100k Stars | Hacker News
When I am angry, frustrated and disappointed or depressed, I think of the pale blue dot every single time. It helps me put things into perspective. Our little knotted lives and our petty concerns are meaningless and inconsequential in grand scheme of things. Just let it go. Enjoy what little time we have here! 100k Stars | Hacker News
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Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters. Youâre enlightened â now what? | Hacker News
Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water Youâre enlightened â now what? | Hacker News
New repository: aquilax/grafana-ledger-data-source-php-server - Grafana server wrapper for ledger data
Look into problems, youâll find solutions. Look into solutions, youâll find problems. Ask HN: How do I learn to write better code? | Hacker News
Probably career suicidal (never admit it in your application) but honestly the thing Iâve found helps is just not caring about work at all. Itâs like the equivalent to acceptance in grief. Get the day done, look forward to the weekend, when you book time off make sure to book the following Monday. Iâll do the job as best I can for as long as Iâm paid but if you think Iâm here for any reason other than money to pay the bills youâre completely delusional. Survey: The average worker experiences career burnout â by the age of 32 | Hacker News
My wife has heard all of my jokes and all of my excuses. She now criticizes the former and laughs at the latter, instead of the other way around. Ask HN: What is it like to be old? What advice would you give to younger people? | Hacker News
đ Finished reading The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
đ Finished reading The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy AnswersâStraight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship by Ben Horowitz
đ Finished reading The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery by Andy Hunt
đ Finished reading The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery by Andy Hunt
Jugaad is an attitude towards delivery which originated in India and consists of three simple tenets: Humility: use whatever works without prejudice Openness: keep your options open Frugality: small expenses keep regrets small Jugaad takes agile to the extreme â Georgeâs Techblog
New repository: aquilax/newsferry - Modular RSS/Atom Feed aggregator prototype
trust is the use of any assumptions about the behavior of other people Trust Models
Sometimes the things you create grow way beyond your capacity to handle and become soul crushing endeavors that bear little resemblance to the early years of adventure, fulfillment and satisfaction in serving others, and the wise thing to do would be to step aside and preserve your sanity and peace of mind. Ask HN: What Happened to Larry Page? | Hacker News
đ Finished reading The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
đ Finished reading The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
The contradiction in management is that you must somehow know whatâs going on, but it is not helpful to interfere constantly. Managing Teams Through Interfaces | Hacker News