hedberg10

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by hedberg10 5y ago
> A good critical comment teaches us something. I feel as if I did that. Maybe my writing comes across way differently, maybe my comments are not as direct as they could be - but if that is already too upsetting for this crowd, you will
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by hedberg10 5y ago
"Hit the moving target" while spaceship shakes about violently. "Swipe up and hold to eject!" chirps Alexa as we plunge 200 feet in 2 seconds...
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by hedberg10 5y ago
They don't do their part because they are not expected to. That is my problem with the "disease" label. That is my problem when talking about homelessness. That is my problem when talking about addiction. And there are people
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by hedberg10 5y ago
Fair point. My own character traits certainly color my viewpoints.
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by hedberg10 5y ago
It removes the victim mindset. My background is a recovering asshole, partially failing, aka the son in the article.
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by hedberg10 5y ago
I have seen the homeless as people to be pitied and helped. Just weak people, down on their luck. So you help them, right? I let a homeless man sleep in the hallway of my building. He took a shit in front of my door. Now if I had seen the h
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by hedberg10 5y ago
> my cousin had been taken so young? He wasn't taken. He took himself. Exercise: Everytime you remove agency, reintroduce it. "I am depressed". No, you are depressing yourself. "I am helpless". No, you are making
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by hedberg10 5y ago
Novel? Ho, ho, how quaint. If you'd made a dent in the hard sciences by then, I'd be impressed.
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by hedberg10 5y ago
You're welcome, friend.
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by hedberg10 5y ago
Air travel is still great if you fly first class, which if I remember correctly, is exactly as expensive as air travel was in the good old days.
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by hedberg10 5y ago
https://www.harvard.com/book/dying_for_a_paycheck_how_modern... "Management" is a public health crisis like cancer, diabetes or heart disease. Nothing else and nothing more. Anecdotal: In the Interview I foun
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by hedberg10 5y ago
You're right, it should have it's own name. It's much closer to drug use. Constantly context switching with high emotionality. "Dopamine streaming"? It takes a lot longer to put out an inflammatory book and it'
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by hedberg10 5y ago
They are getting the size of walls now, so I'm ready to live out Fahrenheit 451.
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by hedberg10 5y ago
Well, I'll have you know I graduated summa cum laude from Lemönade Ständ Universität, which is a very prestigious institution in Luxemburg, when I was 6.
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by hedberg10 5y ago
Every company has a shrine to vital things that can not break under any circumstances. We have a holy Win7 Thinkpad. Often there are gurus too and monks live in the caves next to the relics, trying to guard the sacred grounds and spreading
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by hedberg10 5y ago
Let's identify the problems here: Long work hours -which might or might not be bullshit Addicting novelty seeking -small dopamine hits -and it's enablement -phones -never ending scrolling -being rich to h
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by hedberg10 5y ago
Well now youre doing exactly what I described. You make my suggestions into a to do list and feel bad. The point is to feel better. Thats the start of everything. Not "I have accomplished all tasks, now I can feel good". Notice ho
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by hedberg10 5y ago
Have you heard 'State not story' (sometimes 'Story follows state')? This comes from trauma therapy, specifically Polyvagal Theory. Patients have their life story and often think of it as the reason for their current prob
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by hedberg10 5y ago
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.” ― D.H. Lawrence
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by hedberg10 5y ago
There was a regular helicopter service on top of skyscrapers, like a bus. There isn't anymore, because things that go up, must come down. "Urban" and "flying" will never happen. I'm regularly astonished that we
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by hedberg10 5y ago
Crazy it sold at all, really. Still overvalued. The free money bubble sets your value horizon to weird levels. I remember hard solutions being worth something, not bro apps. Now I'm actually not that grumpy. This happens in every indus
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by hedberg10 5y ago
Fair enough
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by hedberg10 5y ago
> Does it still work > If yes, it's not dead Another point: This thinking cheapens learning. If you only learn, "what isn't dead", you stifle your curiosity and don't learn the whole picture of a thing.
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by hedberg10 5y ago
I share your experiences with caffeine withdrawal. I bought a really good Espresso machine. Quite fun, for me. Now I drink a really good cup on a sunday and then go a few days without even. There is nothing that can touch it. Not the free c
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by hedberg10 5y ago
"Witchhunt? Only we do that."
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by hedberg10 5y ago
It was. People aren't taught about the Venona Papers. I wonder why that is.
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by hedberg10 5y ago
There was only one free seat and the quiet kid had to stand because the bullies wouldn't let him sit next to them. That counts as bullying in my book. Bullying behavior exist also in the bullied: The quiet kid had to appease the bullie
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by hedberg10 5y ago
I think what I mean is not even taking out frustrations. This behavior doesn't need an a priori frustration. That is the big issue. I'm able to forgive a frustration. You cut me off, you have a bad day/parent in hospital - I&
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by hedberg10 5y ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assholes:_A_Theory Today on the train I saw some bullies. Kids wouldn't let the quieter kid sit with them. What I could see immediately in their eyes is the knowledge that they
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by hedberg10 5y ago
Maybe they are antennas? Maybe they are drones..

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