rupi

I don’t have anything that will make you feel better.

However, you should use this as a learning opportunity. Think back to your decision and try to objectively review your decision making process. Why did you make that decision? What information did you take into account? What other factors were at play?

Knowing what you know now, not counting the price, will you still make the same decision? Why or why not? You said you cannot explain the BTC and ETH price increases. Try to. Why do you think that happened? Could you have predicted those factors better?

Believe it or not, you will face this kind of situation again but you will be better prepared for it if you do some decision analysis.

It depends on what you are trying to achieve. My goal was to spend less time reading news and more time coding and building. I tried automated time trackers but they didn't work for me. I came to the realization that wasting time was an automatic action, not something I thought about in the moment. So looking at metrics later on just highlighted a problem I already knew I had.

There are two things I did that have had a big positive impact. I use a website blocker - I use Inmotion.app, which also has some other bells and whistles and that was very helpful.

Another thing that helped was tracking my time in a spreadsheet in 15 minute intervals. I color code the time - green for coding and building, red for 'unproductive', purple for necessities - family, working out, meditation etc. I don't make entries every 15 minutes, just whenever I remember but the sheet is open in front of me all the time. This has finally brought the discipline I sometimes lacked.

There is a power to looking back over the last x blocks of 15 minutes and coloring them red. It makes me want to make my day as green as possible and I find myself competing with myself - I highly recommend it.

His book ‘Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine’ is great as well. I always feel it is his most underrated work.

When they zig, you zag.

With everyone focusing on how bad California is, I think it may be a great time to move there.

I think we are in general agreement. While self taught developers have been around from the beginning, until a few years ago, most companies wanted only those with a CS degree regardless of what they were to actually do. DB admin - CS Degree; maintain a Wordpress site - CS degree; write ML algorithms from scratch - CS degree.

It is changing now. Don't get me wrong; I see the value in CS knowledge having spent a lot of time learning it though never for any degree. All I am saying is that we need to recognize that a job requires a specific skill set and theoretical CS may not be it.

Let us use machines and mechanical engineer as an analogy.

These days, you don't need to be a mechanical engineer to operate 'most' machines.

Will being a mechanical engineer help if the machine breaks down? Yes. Will there be some machines that only a computer engineer could operate? Yes. Will there be come cases where being a mechanical engineer make you a better machine operator? Yes. But do you need to be a mechanical engineer to operate most machines? Answer is clearly no.

We are at the point where that analogy carries over easily to computer science and coding. Yes, there are many cases where knowing computer science will be essential to extremely helpful. But for 80% of the coding jobs, you don't 'need' to know theoretical computer science.

It depends on how you define work and also who is deciding what you work on. I am working on my own startup as a solo founder. Any time, I am not with my family, working out or eating/sleeping, I am 'working' - about 10-12 hours per day.

But not all of that time is difficult (deep) work. I code, I design, I talk to users, I read, I do research, I take notes, I think, I plan. Other than coding, none of those feel like 'work'. Coding feels like work because it is both math difficult and bodybuilding difficult - (not my words, I read them somewhere).

I enjoy the autonomy and seeing the impact of my decisions firsthand. I doubt I would have the same hours or energy if I was working where someone else was deciding what I would work on or if I was far removed from the results of the work.