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Minding our way
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Minding our way is a personal blog at mindingourway.com about philosophy and productivity. Since 2015, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Half-assing it with everything you've got”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
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Most-linked posts?
- Half-assing it with everything you've got5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-10-13
- Have no excuses3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-27
- Working yourself ragged is not a virtue2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-21
- Replacing Guilt Series2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-14
- How to respond to problems (don't freeze up, basically)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-04
- Obvious Advice2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-09
- Dive in2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-13
What Hacker News says?
When the world is complicated, entangled, and rapidly changing, would you expect there to be one centralized official guide?* At the risk of sounding glib or paternalistic -- but I'm going to say it anyway, because once you "see it" it won't feel like a foreign idea being imposed on you -- there are ways that help to lower and even drop expectations. How? To mention just one: good reading. Read "Be a new homunculus"…
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on “Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?”Submitted How to respond to problems (don't freeze up, basically) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI've noticed the problem in my peers and in myself too. One good remedy is this: http://mindingourway.com/have-no-excuses/ "In refusing to generate an excuse when everyone else is doing so, you violate some unspoken pact of mediocrity"
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on “Ask HN: Can't concentrate to focus, until it's last minute or later”Submitted We're not gods. We're still monkeys. (2015) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI think if you have intrinsic motivation to work on your hobbies, it won't feel like work and you will find a way (unless you are actually extremely exhausted - then the fix is to rest). 'I feel like I’m missing that spark' sounds like you don't believe that working on that project is beneficial. http://mindingourway.com/guilt/ helped me to discover my intrinsic motivation. But you might end up doing something else…
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on “Ask HN: How do I find energy to work on hobbies after the work day ends?”Submitted Half-assing it with everything you've got as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGrowth Mr. Money Moustache [ http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ ] Study Hacks, Cal Newport [ http://calnewport.com/blog/ ] Tim Ferriss [ https://tim.blog/ ] Oliver Emberton [oliveremberton.com] Intellectual Farnam Street, Shane Parrish [farnamstreetblog.com/blog] Less Wrong [ http://lesswrong.com/ ] [lesserwrong.com] Raw Thought, Aaron Swartz [aaronsw.com/weblog] Slate Star Codex [slatestarcodex.com] Edge [ http://edge…
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on “Ask HN: Favourite blogs?”Submitted Where Coulds Go as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://mindingourway.com/how-we-will-be-measured/ seems relevant
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on “Nobody Cares (2011)”Submitted Working yourself ragged is not a virtue as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think this one is very insightful and is one of my favorites: http://mindingourway.com/what-sort-of-thing-a-brain-is/
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?”Submitted Obvious Advice as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I'm talking about things like: journaling, Arduino, web development, game dev, photography, writing fiction, tweeting, posting videos to YouTube, knowledge management, 'note-taking,' and more. One issue I see is that none of the project examples you listed have a real end. They are continuous and can never be finished. "Create an online 4-player version of battle-city" is a project. "Game dev" is not a project. Th…
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on “Ask HN: How do you stick to projects?”Submitted There Is No Try as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI procrastinate as well. What I find has been working for me lately is not making it about the thing itself, but about who I'm becoming by doing it (and doing it early), as described here: https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/become-a-person-who-actually-d... (the rest of the blog is fantastic if you want to check it out, there's many posts on personal improvement) I was also pointed to this resource by Neel, you could use…
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on “Ask HN: How to do that you need to do but not motivated at all?”Submitted Obvious Advice as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://mindingourway.com/there-are-no/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/i0/are_your_enemies_innately_evil/ As others in this thread, I don't assign a goodness index to people around me, my model of them is much more complex than that, based on evolutionary psychology, mainly. As for myself, I try to maintain a love for the self, in a way, trying to reassure myself that my system 2 thinking will be there for system 1, irrespe…
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on “Ask HN: Do you consider yourself to be evil?”Submitted There are only two seasons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionExplore help in all the forms you can find. Feel free to contact me if you like. I'm happy to meet people and do a phone call or video call. I'm not hard to find with a little digging. I've been through a fair amount of situations in my life, and I don't think have any illusions about places AI could go. I'm definitely not an optimist -- and I don't think being naively optimistic is something we want in everyone! --…
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on “Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?”Submitted Half-assing it with everything you've got (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of a powerful post I read a while ago with the charter to "Half-ass [your projects] with everything you've got!". Pre-commit to what level of quality you're looking to achieve and then strive to do just what is necessary to get there: https://mindingourway.com/half-assing-it-with-everything-you...
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on “Proof You Can Do Hard Things”Submitted Dive in as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have no excuses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Art of Response as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working yourself ragged is not a virtue as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Stamp Collector (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deregulating Distraction, Moving Towards the Goal, and Level Hopping (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Half-assing it with everything you've got as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replacing Guilt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Half-assing it with everything you've got as a story · 1 points
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