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by yef 7mo ago
https://spokengoods.com/ - a podcast summary site that also pulls out product mentions. I kept forgetting which books were mentioned while I was out doing stuff.
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by yef 7mo ago
Feeling Good and/or Feeling Great by David Burns. It should be on everyone's bookshelf, imho. It has the exact step by step process that you're looking for.
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by yef 7mo ago
Continuing hacking on my podcast summarizer, https://spokengoods.com/
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by yef 7mo ago
I would focus on the games first, and then spin up the LLC if one of them takes off. Otherwise you just have the maintenance and fees of the LLC which is a distraction.
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by yef 7mo ago
Be an organ donor. Donate blood on a regular basis. Skeptoid had a podcast today that talks about blood donation with some interesting tidbits about shelf life of platelets and whole blood. (5 days vs 42 days) (Disclaimer: the site I hacked
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by yef 9mo ago
https://spokengoods.com - Podcast summarization and organic product mention extraction.
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by yef 2y ago
Some time ago, I wrote a few stories along these lines mostly for fun. https://www.hardmode.app/ I'm quite aware of survivorship bias, and it is a theme I had thought about but wasn't sure how to frame in terms of
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by yef 4y ago
Consider activities that broaden your perspective, e.g. reading a biography or travel somewhere. Consider journaling deeply about areas that trouble you, whether recent or distant past. Also consider journaling in detail about the best poss
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by yef 4y ago
When and how long was your last vacation?
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by yef 4y ago
Next time try 8 hours on an Amtrak Northeast Corridor train in business class over Thanksgiving :)
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Journaling about Job Loss Shortens Time to Reemployment (1994)(wiseinterventions.org)
2 points by yef 4y ago|1 comments
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by yef 4y ago
During this period of tech layoffs I just wanted to highlight some research done 30 years ago which is part of a larger body of research around expressive writing. My apologies for re-wording the title, but the original paper and the linked
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Ask HN: Today's Equivalent of Founders at Work?
2 points by yef 4y ago|2 comments
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by yef 4y ago
Sample size of 1, but my blog still isn't showing up in Google after launching almost a month ago. Bing and DuckDuckGo do have it.
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by yef 4y ago
Pretty much everyone in a developed country. Just zoom out your time perspective. I'll go ahead and say paramedics, but there are examples all over the place.
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by yef 4y ago
Language is not precise, and companies define their roles differently for a variety of reasons, including the nature of the business each company is in. I'll take a stab though. In general, "salesperson" implies a single tran
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by yef 4y ago
I wrote a simple stopwatch menu bar app called Mini Time Tracker [1] for Mac. I use it to track how much time I do a single thing, e.g. coding. It's like pomodoro in reverse and only stops when you tell it to stop. [1] https:/&#x
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by yef 4y ago
You might find the concept of Ikigai interesting. Also, Arthur C. Brooks recently wrote a book, From Strength to Strength. I think his audience skews slightly older than you, but it's about how people find meaningful second careers by
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by yef 4y ago
What if you turned it from a solitary activity to a pair activity. e.g. ask a trusted peer to take notes as you explain the design of your system with whiteboard. Then clean up the notes and drawings. The peer could also point out issues or
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by yef 4y ago
A journaling app based on the body of research around personal writing and a newsletter to go along with it.
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by yef 4y ago
The Body Keeps the Score lists a variety of therapies, and trigger warning, contains details about traumas of people the author has interviewed. Good luck.
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by yef 4y ago
`weather` into google works fine for basic stuff. wunderground.com for hourly rain forecasts, for when I want to keep an eye on potential flooding around my house.
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by yef 4y ago
I actually enjoy the process of re-reading and editing. It takes me days as well and I am a native speaker! Maybe just shoot for good and not perfect. Limit yourself to one re-read and edit cycle and then publish it. You will get better ove
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by yef 4y ago
Try timing how much actual work you do each day. Track it. Also time procrastination and track. Then increase first number while decreasing second number. Just try to beat the previous day by a bit. If you finish all your work, ask boss
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by yef 4y ago
Yes, I was a PM.
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by yef 4y ago
That's good! Maybe I was an imposter after all :) I would count everything including meetings, email, required trainings, team events, etc. People would attend low priority meetings and just work through them, it was nuts. Perhaps you
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by yef 4y ago
When I worked at a FAANG company I estimated that I needed to work around 60 hours a week to meet expectations. Nobody ever really talked about baselines like this because it makes the company look bad. Doesn't really help with imposte
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by yef 4y ago
It would be a meaningless data point without the necessary calibration, so that's why I left it at x. Some kids can be left alone to play nicely, others require constant supervision, discipline, redirecting of their energy, etc. The fo
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by yef 4y ago
I started with a physical diary because I'm obsessed with Muji pens and enjoyed the ritual of putting pen to paper without distractions. Later on I transcribed all the old entries to a journaling app because I filled the notebook and w
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by yef 4y ago
I had a rough 2020-2022 and one thing that made a difference was starting a personal writing habit with two main components: 1. Daily writing which summarizes the day and gets off my chest any minor things that are bothering me. 2. Deep div

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