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I think the real revelation comes in understanding that the grass will always appear greener on the other side, regardless of which side you find yourself on. That is a hard thing to understand without having gone through that.

Edit, such this additional advice:

• If you can avoid seeking approval of others, your power is limitless.

• Compliment people behind their back. It’ll come back to you.

Such a hard thing to quantify – and attempting to quantify it misses the point – but I think this is such an under appreciated point.

I know that I am quick to gossip or talk about other people's failings behind their back. Partly, I think it is easy for people to relate to each other based on a shared view of someone else. And, unfortunately, I think it is easier to come up with negative examples to talk about.

Imagine if more of us found opportunities to say something good about someone just because.

I like the analogy he makes here.

There is a balance in here somewhere to learn how to navigate, adapt and live within a society/community that favors set standards and "normality" without muting out uniqueness, personal interests, etc.

I can't disagree with your point that resources and opportunity beget more resources and more opportunity. I don't think that is the only path to success.

I also see advice in here that implies he tried and failed at many things, and perhaps was most successful when not focused so much on money:

• A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea.

• Most overnight successes — in fact any significant successes — take at least 5 years. Budget your life accordingly.

• Don’t create things to make money; make money so you can create things. The reward for good work is more work.

• That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it.

I wish I could have grasped this as a kid, and I wish I could explain this to my kids now and have them understand/believe me.

My kids each have their own unique personalities, strengths, weaknesses, etc. But they all have to funnel through the same general requirements of school and such. It is too easy to fall into the trap of getting them to "conform." But I want to be able to nurture the "weird" in them!

I started using Fathom instead of Google Analytics.

I didn't know about the wildcard (*) operator. That will come in handy.

I also like to use the timeframe limiter under tools to narrow down to the past year, month, etc., to get more recent results.

You could post on a blog of your own. If it is a very specific question and answer, it shouldn't be too hard to rank it. And you may get search ranking benefit for future opportunities of your own.

Boring, but functional:

Flask, MySQL, Bootstrap, jQuery

Very nice. Came here to see if someone had already made this.

I wonder about helping manufacturers generate a QR code to use alongside the symbols to provide a detailed per-label translation?

Staying busy and having something to focus on. It is tempting to try to lay low and can seem even more challenging to start or plan something. Being active and engaged seem to be good for me.

That makes sense. I totally agree.

There are existing, well-established online communities outside of Facebook for this particular topic I am interested in. And now that I have found out about the Facebook group, I see why they appear to be slowly dying. OP seemed to imply it's Facebook or nothing. I disagree with that.

And I think there are many examples of communities outside of Facebook that do it well in a privacy-friendly way that are well supported by its members.

I am definitely making an un-forced choice to join to have access to their content. The trade-off, of course, is that I have to agree to their terms and offer my pseudo "support."

Are you saying that without Facebook the community wouldn't exist because participants wouldn't pay to play? I'm just not quite clear on your comment.

The best. With very little electronic I revived some vintage stereo equipment using the original circuit board schematic diagram. I had a lot of help from YouTube and online forums, but the level of detail in the service manuals is incredible.

That's a good tip. Thanks. Twitter actually makes it easy to switch between accounts in their app, but I do have a mangled mess of folders, files, bookmarks, etc.

The general feedback I have seen around this is to launch and re-evaluate as you go. As soon as you are making enough to justify the expense, do it.

Many are arguing we are not in a bubble because it is different than the last bubble. What defines a bubble? Is it simply that prices drop from a high after significantly increasing?

If the conditions that they argue are resulting in current prices ease (supply, material, labor shortages are a few listed here), and prices drop, isn't that a bubble?

I guess they could simply plateau and return to "normal" growth patterns.

I believe this is correct. And even if the buyer is willing to pay the price, the bank may not be willing to offer the mortgage over the appraisal amount. Cash is king, but not all offers for the same price are equal, such as VA loans with requirements and such.

Pre-2008 crash, lenders could pick their appraiser and it was easier for them to have the appraisal match up with the asking price. The lender was likely selling off the loan, anyway.

Appraisals are now assigned to a pool. Doesn't mean there are not any shenanigans though. They all still know each other.

I can relate to this. I have always wished I could find one thing to be passionate about and become an expert on. I seem to become obsessive about one thing for a short while and then gradually loose interest. There seems to be a "honeymoon" effect for me. This goes for hobbies, side projects, work projects.

I think I enjoy the discovery and research aspects and have romanticized visions of the end goal but end up never going deep enough before moving onto something else.

I studied and worked in journalism for a while. This was interesting work to me, because I could dive into a topic for a story and then move onto the next one. It helped to be a generalist. Perhaps you can blog about being a generalist and whatever interest you at any given time. Maybe something will really resonate that will lead to deeper dives.

Having "seasonal" interests or ensuring you can leave and return to interests has helped me. Living in the PNW, we have actual weather seasons. I love to ski in the winter, grow a garden in the spring, be on the water in the summer and go to football games in the fall. I get excited as these seasons change and can easily leave the last behind, knowing it will return.

Similarly, when I get into something, I try to make it manageable to dive back into it without starting from scratch by maintaining things or information I have collected along the way. The foundations will be there.

That's interesting. Perhaps using a trusted third party podcast app would be preferable? Again, not sure. I certainly understand having some analytics around non-identifiable data, such as downloads, listens, etc.

This is more about avoiding having a digital identity. I recently created a second Twitter account to create some separation between personal and business interests, conversations, etc.

Not that I want to have two identities, but I would like to be able to distinguish between them. It was not difficult, but required some effort to create separation (I didn't want twitter suggesting my "business" account to my friends I already followed on my personal account).

Facebook was another story. I have never had a Facebook account until a couple of weeks ago. I took on a new hobby recently, and the most active community around this topic is exclusively on Facebook. I joined and immediately disabled the ability to be seen to the extent I saw possible. But then Facebook disabled my account within 24 hours – the irony! They allowed a review process, which required a selfie (they clearly know my identity through facial recognition, despite having never supplied a picture myself). They let me back in fairly quickly. But I hate having to "support" the ecosystem. And it turns out I cannot friend anybody without allowing their friends to view my account.

I think that's the point. I am unlikely to try to juggle many podcast apps. If I can only get your content in Apple or Spotify, I am less likely to listen or subscribe.

Forcing a listener into an ecosystem may severely limit audience size. But if popular enough, it may work just fine for some creators, such as Stern, Rogan, etc.

Agreed. I think this can be a good model (freemium), and is certainly fair.

As a consumer of podcasts and as someone who pays for many services, I am not only unlikely to pay much for access to a podcast, but to attempt to juggle multiple listening platforms for podcast discovery and listening. If I can't get a podcast on the podcast app I use, I likely won't listen to it beyond a one-off episode that really interested me.

I used to listen to an occasional Joe Rogan episode before he switched to Spotify. I rarely catch it at all now, though I subscribe to Spotify. I just don't take the time to stay caught up on his guest list outside of my podcast app of choice.

I'm certainly fine with ads in podcasts.

But I don't begrudge podcasters that want to produce exclusive content to support their efforts and perhaps offer add-free podcasts.

I'm honestly not sure what sort of tracking occurs with podcasts or if tracking and podcast ads go hand-in-hand. There must be some degree of audience analytics, I guess.

Generally, I am not sure that no-ads means no-tracking, either. Though, that could certainly be a selling point to paying for a service of any kind.

As others have suggested, build some small projects. Pick anything in your life or work that you commonly return to Google to find answer for or collect information. Automate it or make it better.

You may want to pick a platform/language that has a low-level intro course that walks you through a small project.

Let the challenges you encounter lead you to finding solutions and building your skills.

Mostly Flask with helper packages. But also userbase.com for howsyourblank.com and just a phone number for textpost.me :)

Feature is live. Text delete:last to the service's number and the most recent post will be deleted.

This can continue to be done and will delete the most recent chronological post.

Thanks again for the feedback!

Delete last is an excellent idea. I will prioritize that! Thanks for the feedback and trying it out.

How do you mean? Just curious because my wife, who always hated running, is killing it with a NordicTrack treadmill and iFit. She bought a shirt to support her favorite instructor, she is part of some Facebook groups, and talks quite a bit about the "experience" of each run.

I don't quite get it myself, so I am not advocating for one or the other. But it seems to be working for her.

I believe so: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Thanks for sharing, though.