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I have not seen the ad and hence speak somewhat uninformed. I will just present and alternate view.

I think a lot of people will be unaware about the fact that in terms of sharing information with your ISP and others, you are no more secure by using "private browsing".

If Mozilla can help educate some of these people, then I cannot fault them for that. But as I started by saying I have not seen the actual ad, just trying to present an alternate view.

I recently bought "Courage is calling", the newest book from Ryan Holiday. I actually quite liked "Obstacle.." and "Ego.." having read them some years ago. But I do not know. I feel like I somehow has gotten older (scary thought :) ) I think the content in Courage is somewhat of the same type and quality, but I have only read a few chapters and it somehow comes off as trying too hard.

I am sure it is more me, than the content/author that has changed. But the original comment is so right in saying "You pay to be inspired".

Thanks!

Absolute same for me. It challenged core beliefs which I had no idea ever would be. Thanks for the tip on the book.

Appears that he had wrote more books than what I knew. What a positive revelation. The one I liked was "Debt".

Do you have a link to the article about bullshit jobs?

Debt: The first 500 years - I found it extremely interesting.

Oh thank you SO much! I had missed all of that as well. There is a certain item for my wish list for Christmas. Really appreciate it.

I had somehow missed that he died. What a shame. He wrote one of the most interesting, fascinating and influential books I have ever read.

I use Firefox as my primary browser and has done so for years. I do not feel like I am missing out on something. But I will be interested to read the comments and suggestions from this thread.

Thanks a lot for this! I really appreciate it. Comments like this is why I really like HN.

Absolutely. Have done and will do in the future. Rejected jobs from surveillance-companies, ad-tech companies etc.

But I do not try to put myself on a higher moral horse than people who would take those jobs. I can say no because I have two things in place; a moral compass and most importantly; a privileged position in the World where I can afford to say no.

It took a good 3-4 months for me find any remote joy in getting back to work. I was lucky not to be in a financial situation where I needed to work, so I could take some months off early without any real consequence.

No question that most of us needs to have the ego take a backseat more often.

But I cannot help but compare this to negotiation. It is a lot easier when you negotiate from a place of abundance. Negotiating salary is easier when you do not need the job. Negotiating a house is easier when you do not need to buy that house.

I feel like the same applies here. Willingness to look stupid is a lot easier in situations where you have confidence and nothing to lose.

The value of pop-science books is not in their scientific accuracy but their carry-over to everyday life.

The overall points of Thinking Fast and Slow still stands whether backed by science or not.

Thanks a lot for the list. "Luckily" not deal-breakers that would warrant a shift for me. I have been using Ubuntu without any complaints as daily driver for a year or so. But as I plan to get a new laptop in the future I contemplated whether I should try a new distro as well.

Any good reasons to select Pop over Ubuntu?

Sounds like you are overthinking and/or over engineering it. Unless CI or deploy/rollback functionality IS your product then it does not matter. Until you have got traction for your actual product then deployments can have 100 manual steps that you can write down and follow - it does not matter.

I have no idea what you are building or planning it to be but for my projects I have a single VPS with Hetzner per project running linux and hosting the applications. Deployment is done by a powershell script that copies files from my laptop to the server - that's it.

If I were to think about clusters, cloud instances, load balancers and what not then I would be scared away before having delivered anything of value. Cross that bridge when you get there.

Identity diversification. Don't be your job. Invest time and effort in people and activities outside of work.

Having spent a lot of time working for financial institution I must also add, that they might be the least rewarding workplaces.

Perhaps look for a job in a product-oriented company instead. In my experience, there is a difference.

It can be debated whether it lead to enough change, but there was some change: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/what-happe...

I have been doing intermittent fasting with 8 hour "feeding window" for probably 10 years now. There are all sorts of different more or less believable facts about intermittent fasting. I won't get into any of them. I can just say that for me with my goals, it works. I can keep a lower bodyfat percentage while keeping muscle mass, year round than I could with any other "diet".

My main issue with any other "diet" or philosophy has always been my huge appetite. When I ate 6 times a day I was always hungry because the portion size was too low. I have a huge appetite and loves to eat big portions. When I only have 2-3 meals a day, then they can be substantially larger.

If you have trouble eating enough good food already, then IF is not for you.

If you want the alleged health benefits, whether they occur or not, then try a day or two of fasting. But the daily fasting should only be used if it somehow fits your life, schedule and goals.

The right "diet" is the one you can consistently adhere to.

I have had some thoughts in the same space, as I believe that I could help a lot of non-technical founders, but never found the right approach. I agree with a lot of the problems softwaredoug describes in his answer.

If it were to work, then it should have long-term focus. So act as a busines angel/VC "knowledge fund". Get a few percentages of ownership and hope to one day have advised some successful companies. Maybe have a deal where you transition from On Demand CTO to Board member as the company grows and can hire a fulltime CTO.

Another point should probably be to only take on startups that have actually been incorporated in some way that enables percentages to be exchanged. Otherwise I can see a lot of wasted time on peoples great ideas.

Seen from the other perspective you would probably also struggle a bit to gain traction. Have a good track-record for founders to contact you and give a way a few percentages. They should be comfortable that you can actually help them and that they can have enough of your time to make a difference.

After writing this I actually think it less of an un-viable idea than when I started writing :)

I think that this is one of the lessons from the pandemic as well. A lot of people have underestimated the meaning and impact of loosely coupled/superficial relationships. The small conversations we could have with co-workers and strangers that was impossible because of lock-down or which was avoided to keep contact to a minimum.

I know that some people prefer to keep to themselves, but as this study also underlines, the majority of people are social creatures and we thrive on interactions - even with strangers.

I would say nay, for a number of reasons.

Let's take the somewhat sunshine scenario first. You make something that actually succeeds. You start earning a lot of money. Has each of you contributed as much to the outcome as the other. And will both of you say so about a person they have only met online. Prisoners dilemma. Or at least could be if one decides to screw the other. And I think every piece of research ever done about behavior online points to the fact that people are less empathetic towards each other online.

Second point: I have started to believe that the most important factor in any endeavor, whether it being starting companies or otherwise, is to do it with people you really enjoy spending time with. Whether you succeed or not you have to make the journey, that journey might as well be with someone you really like.

You can of course find someone online that you end up really liking, but I would advise against a "fully remote" relationship.

I was not aware of the fact that he written a book. I will have to check that one out - because I agree those videos are so calm and soothing to watch.

As other have mentioned, I do not think that you can draw any meaningful conclusion about attention, span by questioning the comments to linked articles ratio. In a lot of cases peoples attention is probably locked onto the comment section for longer than it would take to read the article itself.

The comment section is among other things an "open source quality meter". I can get sucked in by good writing in an article only to read in the comments that the entire premise of the article might be wrong. The comment section is filled with intelligent individuals that can vouch the link as well as perhaps link to something better.

Hence I always check the comment section.

I read your comment :)

That quote is seriously brilliant! Thanks for sharing.

On the topic of e-readers I just want to share these two resources for free e-books. I am pretty sure I originally got them from HN and I have been reading almost exclusively from their collections ever since. So if someone can have the same enjoyment from them as I had then they do really deserve a re-post:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/

I can only chime in and support this claim about Citizen. I have had one of their Eco-drive models for about 15 years now and it has had months in drawers or laying on shelves not being used, but it has never stopped working. I am so impressed with that watch!

I am very glad to hear. I have been very pleased since I switched from Dropbox to this set-up. I also use Nextcloud without the Cryptomator-directory for more ordinary file-sharing between devices.