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I'm enabling airplane mode ~30 minutes before sleep, which is part of my sleep ritual; no notifications and no radiation.

Not the GP -- I've been using Sleep Cycle for exactly 852 nights. It was of immense help developing sleep hygiene. Now I'm waking up before the alarm, which I believe might make more sense if your take an evolutionary perspective. I'm still using the app, as I've wondered if I could do something interesting with this data.

It's unfortunate that Hello are shutting down. I was thinking into buying Sense for my bedroom, despite that I'm using different app, mostly because the aesthetics.

Isn't such perspective limited?

My parents are 67 and 65 years old; I would say say that daily brisk walking is possibly much more suitable for them (their body) in comparison to weightlifting -- irrespective of your personal definition of "exercise". And I'm damn sure their heart rate easily exceeds 100+ if that's the main variable to control.

Yeah, I'm not born under such regime and haven't lived through it, but from my gatherings talking to older people – actually, the eastern block had strong emphasis on various engineering disciplines and solid tradition in computer science. This is not something political in my opinion.

It's significantly strong signal for conscientiousness, which from my understanding is highly correlated w/ certain cognitive attributes; this in combination w/ certain low agreeableness (not being influenced by the "traditional family") and apparent intellectual openness -- is good enough bet for me :)

I think it means a conservative family, which not only does not nurture the apparent aptitude of the kid for programming, but maybe also actively prevents it from any further development; due various reasons, but probably mostly, because of their incoherent belief systems.

I've personally had been through something similar, albeit not in such radical way. My parents bought me the eastern block's Apple II clone when I was at age of 8, but despite that, later in my teenage years I had to constantly overcome various forms of pressure – i.e. this computer won't make your living when you grow up, so stop f*cking around and get more interested in your high school material, because as it goes it seems you won't be even able to finish it. We're kind of joking now w/ my parents around that, but boy - it was no fun back then.

Curious, after reaching the point where you had significantly higher level of self-awareness, have you noticed any alterations in the way you talk to yourself internally, i.e. the tone of your inner voice?

Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline is great. Related, I would also recommend "Thinking in Systems" by Donella Meadows and "An Introduction to General Systems Thinking" by Jerry Weinberg.

Which one of the both would you recommend starting with?

Definitely try out Laravel.

I'm not involved in the PHP community, but had a chance to take off a client project and decided to go with Laravel. It was real pleasure working with in combination with writing modern PHP overall.

Jeffrey Way's Laracast was of help for me and is worth checking out.

Eh, is this legal? Which EU country is that?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-27/europe-proposes-res...

EDIT: apologies, didn't saw see sibling comment; leaving the comment w/ the URL for reference on the directive details.

You might want to check the various ETFs - they're pretty much the same as index funds.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/mutualfund/05/etfindexf...

I'm from Europe and I'm holding couple of Blackrock ETFs.

Here's handy site for screening EU based ETFs (no affiliation).

https://www.justetf.com/

This is interesting. I'll chime in w/ one additional anecdata point - recently I've started supplementing Methyl Folate, B6 and B12 and saw significant increase in my energy levels; not in a jittery stimulant-like way, but more like w/ calmness and clarity.

Have you experienced any negative side effects? Any advise on what to be cautious for?

I've been through something like this – up until I've hit ~25 years. I was fairly "disorganized". Issues w/ all forms of "authorities", trouble w/ my personal finances, not taking care of my mental (taking rest and time off) and physical (sleep, nutrition, exercise) health, never sucking it up striving towards overcoming adversities (however minor they might be). Most of all, starting many things, but never finishing anyth, which really invoked constant background anxiety.

Chaos and disorder.

Not sure what happened exactly, but there was one point where I couldn't anymore.

Looking back, I think what really was a breakthrough for me was journaling. First thing in the morning and right after opening my eyes, in free form w/o correcting my self. Just letting it out.

With time your thought becomes more precise and there comes clarity. I've started picking patterns in my way of thinking, my habits and behaviors – pretty much in all aspects of my life. I've started tracking other aspects of my life, which led to other insights and finding in a very quantified way what works and does not works for me.

Still, you're here on HN. I'm pretty sure that despite everything you go through now, there is something internally which does keeps you on the right track in the grand scheme of the things. There is exploration and exploitation. The time will show.

I would also highly recommend you checking Dr. Jordan Peterson's lectures "Maps of Meaning" on YouTube and his "Self Authoring" program.

This is interesting. Potentially, inserting the "because" keyword could enhance the effect.

See [1] "The Mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action: The Role of `Placebic` Information in Interpersonal Interaction".

> Langer had people request to break in on a line of people waiting to use a busy copy machine on a college campus. The researchers had the people use three different, carefully worded requests to break in line:

> “Excuse me, I have 5 pages. May I use the xerox machine?” [60% compliance]

> “Excuse me, I have 5 pages. May I use the xerox machine, because I have to make copies?” [93% compliance]

> “Excuse me, I have 5 pages. May I use the xerox machine, because I’m in a rush?” [94% compliance]

> Using the word “because” and giving a reason resulted in significantly more compliance. This was true even when the reason was not very compelling (“because I have to make copies"). The researchers hypothesize that people go on “automatic” behavior or “mindlessness” as a form of a heuristic, or short-cut. And hearing the word “because” followed by a reason (no matter how lame the reason is), causes us to comply.

So, maybe:

"Can you just take on $LARGE_TASK?" -> "No, because $RANDOM. But I can put you in contact with X, because $RANDOM"

"Can you fix dinner?" -> "No, because $RANDOM. Maybe we can cook something together after?"

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[1] https://jamesclear.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/copy-machi...

Essentially, companies/products like Google (AltaVista, Lycos, ect.), Facebook (Friendster, MySpace, etc) or Slack (IRC, Skype, etc)?

IMHO, it's very rare to be working on something truly unseen; and if you are, the chances are numerous people are working on the same thing at very this moment, just in a different flavor. Aren't these incremental improvements part of the natural selection?

IMHO, you should strive to find meaning not in the external, but internally; you should start somewhere, however basic it is (fixing your bed and cleaning your room, before trying to change and help the world). Jordan Peterson talks about that in great detail - highly recommend his lectures (they're available online).

Appreciate taking the time. That's fascinating, thank you.

Slightly off topic, but this methodology seems very interesting. Curious could you share any relevant literature?

Eh? I'm owner (EU) of 2012' Golf TDI, which has the defeat device. I was offered €50 voucher for accepting the stage 1 "fix" VW started implementing.

I think training in completely fasted state is ok, but not optimal; you should be cautious not go dogmatic regarding that, as at given point it might halt your progress. From my relatively modest experience (as former client of Martin Berkhan) - BCAA and/or MCT oil prior the workout might yield substantial positives.

I was asked recently (2017) by Linode to provide scanned my credit card (after paying, then eventually refunded). The reason - fraud prevention, whatever that means. Certainly leaves bad flavor and decided to go w/ DO.

I don't think this list is complete. Qatar comes to my mind, where while being there recently, I've had multiple instances where given sites were blocked - i.e. redirect to censor.qa and passing unique query parameters along w/ your IP address.

Some middle eastern airliners have whole terminals for privilege members, which besides the separate security check - includes spa and so on. This segregation and the experience overall borders w/ uncomfortable - at lest for me.

Care to elaborate how travel helps you combating depression?

Magic keyboard. I've got into the hype of mechanical keyboards and bought HHKB2. Now it sits on my desk as a talisman.

I don't hold MBA, but I was recommended The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. Amazing book.

Have read So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport? Check it out - based on your story, I'm pretty sure it's very relevant to you.

The concept of chunking is covered in Learning How To Learn. I think the provide references as well.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

Honest question, how do you work on 55" display?

AFAIK, LLC in Bulgaria requires no capital, there's 50 euro tax for the opening; VAT is 20% and the capital gains are 10%.