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Having researched a bit more I'm certainly steering clear of that one. Probably trying my luck with PostgreSQL instead. So thanks a lot for the advice.

Yeah React Native could lean me towards having React on the frontend, but as far as I have researched so far there also seems to be a Angular equivalent and as I work with React during daytime I would probably learn more by trying Angular. Thanks a lot for chiming in!

Funny, I never thought about that :) And coming from Denmark I would always have recommended the exact reverse.

I'm totally with you on that one. My biggest hope would be to be able to use only Photos in my photography flow.

Really like the Mac inspired/copied design. How is the keyboard and trackpad?

Hmm thanks! Never heard of it before, but sounds like something I need to try.

Thanks a lot. I need to read up on investing in index funds and Vanguard sounds like a good bet if I decide to go that way.

Think I may need to dig deeper into this. But a few questions that one of you may be able to answer. Seems like you won't get super large returns but on the other hand you won't risk super large losses either.

But sounds like instead of having cash on a bank account, earning no interest, it may be worth putting them into EFT's? Or have I totally misunderstood? Is it only possible to tie your money up for longer periods for instance?

Any caveats as Dane looking at Vanguard? Fee's, cross rates or other I may have missed in this?

Then don't flag it as ready until you have been through your working code with just some sort of readability/architectural rework focus.

Adhering just somewhat to principles from the beginning shouldn't make this too time consuming.

Not directly relating to her - but the book "Thich face, Black heart" comes to mind when thinking of "hard"/ruthless business/life philosophies from the Asian region. Depending on how you interpret the advice of course.

"Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn." - of course you can't tell people how they should take your comments. But saying that you/he/she was lucky does not negate the fact that they may have worked hard. Saying it was ONLY luck does.

Working hard of course put you in a position where you could gain from the luck. You won't suddenly end up as a world renowned producer if you work as a fireman. You invest in your future with a lot of hard work and then perhaps you are one of those who make it.

A lot of people work hard on whatever they have put their mind into. A lot of people are talented and great at what they do. But a lot of people from both groups never really gets the recognition/success/financial breakthrough as others of similar and perhaps even objectively less hard-working/talented people. They just had a little extra "luck".

In my experience a huge part of burnout also comes from deriving all your sense of identity from one source. If you only identity yourself as a developer then you will probably sooner or later start questioning whether what you do is all that meaningful. You will also be seriously exposed to criticism as questioning your abilities becomes questioning of your worth as a human being.

You are also someones child, maybe a father or mother and only one step away from being a pianist, boardgamer, hiker, traveller or whatever.

Identity diversification.

Thanks a million! Had to read the first line a few times, but then read through it all and understood the concept. Thank you very much for the thorough explanation.

Looking forward to the discussion on this. Can anybody help me understand his use of "rent seeker" or "rent seeking"?

And as long as the general consensus is that a good CEO can change everything, CEOs will be able to attract these contracts that has serious assymetric risk/benefit profiles.

That book is quite high on my todo list - can you recommend it?

I agree with the guy who already answered. Flow is the one I read and found super interesting.

Renting also equals freedom. YES you may throw away money in the light of the ability to sell a property at equal or higher price than you payed. BUT you may also end up losing a lot of money or being bound to a property if market changes and prices drop. Renting is a transparent way of knowing the cost of living where you do. In a liquid somewhat stable housing market you probably are better off buying - but just to say that saying renting is for chumps is bit of a simplification in my opinion.

P.S. I know the above probably is a bit of topic as even having the ability to choose somewhat implies that you aren't totally struggling financially.

From a corporate economic standpoint there is a lot to be gained by keeping that stigma. Moving out and starting your own household means buying a lot of stuff. You can't really target the opposite in any meaningful way that gives revenue. And a whole lot of our norms and stigmas are somehow rooted in popular culture and the institutions that benefit from set values.

Deep Work sure is a great book, but I would recommend people with interest in the material just to go directly to Flow by Mihály Csikszentmihalyi.

Read them one after the other, first Deep Work and then Flow. IF you are going to read both then I would recommend that order. Reading Flow first, then Deep Work doesn't have much to offer.

Those books actually re-fueled my love of programming.

+1 I was even quite a big fan of him before reading it - but wasn't expecting much from the book, or expecting it to be somewhat bland. But I really liked it and will absolutely read it again.

Out of curiosity I had to look-up that one. Strong candidate for next indoor plant. Thanks! Even though I wasn't really looking for new plants and I admit that half of it sold me on the "Japanese" part :)

No need to make such a big deal out of doing it or getting around to doing it. As someone else recommended take the free Headspace 10 day course or search Jon Kabat-Zinn, he has some videos where he teaches mindfulness in front of an audience.

If you make it too big a "thing" both "it" and you will fail and not achieve whatever you have set your mind on it achieving.

Our innate insatiability brought us where we are today with all the subjective good or bad progress we have made as a species.

As far as the young people thinking that the big city is the key to the good life. Couldn't it just be that young people like beeing around young people. Big cities offer a lot of possibilities for socializing that you wouldn't get in a small rural city. Perhaps your drives or wants just change with age as your personal life changes - not because one is more right than the other. It just feels that way as you evolve as a human being.

Second this. Don't do it as regular as I usd to because I don't feel like the effect is as profound anymore.

That is not to say that I don't feel like meditation works, but more to say that there seems to be a big change after a longer regular period of meditation, but then further improvements seems to slow down. But I can way more easily get into a relaxed state and calm my mind than I could before doing any meditation. I just don't do it as regularly anymore as I find the further incremental improvements to my everyday life to be smaller.

Shai Agassi of Better Place comes to mind: https://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-pl...

He should have been a foot-soldier in the trenches of WWI - or more likely - just wants to appear as a badass.

I have always just used the same hour long mixes on repeat. But will try this out and see. Thanks!

Would like to know which one. Would like to read a book about him but just not sure whether any of the currents are any good or just put out there to ride on his current fame.

No there are many good hours of reading for sure. This made me laugh:

Ancient tale.

There's this SR-71 Blackbird stooging around Cuba on a top-secret mission, at FL500+ and Mach 2+.... when they get a call requesting them to change heading "because of traffic at your altitude". Traffic at THEIR altitude ??

Anyway, they comply, and shortly, yes, there's an Air France Concorde out of Caracas (Air France flew there in the early days) slowly sailing across their flight path.

Just imagine... two guys in bonedomes and full pressure suits, in a cramped cockpit, watching something like a hundred people in shirt sleeves or summer dresses, sipping their champagne and maybe just starting on their smoked salmon hors d'oeuvres, flying at their altitude and nearly their speed....