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If you're interested in productivity tips from fellow Hacker News readers:

https://blog.startopz.com/10-productivity-tips-from-hacker-n...

Some of my favorites that I compiled over time.

I wasn't arguing that was the case but felt like the parent's logic would extend to that conclusion.

I have three young children and I have observed the same as you with your niece. However a lot of it is that as children learn cause and effect they are better able to optimize for their desired outcomes.

"smarter" is probably a poor choice of words. "more capable" at certain tasks then definitely. The sibling comment to this talks about identifying Legos. My four-year-old can do that because they now know Plato's form of the Lego because they observed me saying the word Lego while holding them to understand what that is. With enough observations I would think that a general purpose AI could identify the forms and then launch more specific AIs for the tasks.

Not specifically related to the article but related to the theme of the article. I have a web-based dashboard that I created using a ruby gem called Dashing that was created by Shopify but since discontinued. I'd like to use a terminal based dashboard instead. Any suggestions?

I came across WTF but don't know Go or see any documentation about building custom modules.

I feel like that with that line of reasoning you could also say that a 34-year-old isn't smarter than a 4-year-old. The 34-year-old just has a bigger dataset.

I like the Economist which I think does a good job of providing an outsiders view of American politics as well as context on how a story has other implications. Not sure if their coverage of UK politics is biased or not.

Looks great. I'd love to be able to install this on my Chromebook using Linux Beta.

Congratulations on releasing your product! I dig the night mode.

I use Finviz as a screener. If I may make a suggestion I would expose more of the software on the front page to entice potential users to play with it.

Half of my spam calls these days are from numbers that are supposedly in the same area code as my phone (likely spoofed as I've called a couple back before and the person didn't know what I was talking about when I said they called me) but since I no longer live in that area code I am able to use that as an identifier.

Short answer is that, like everything in life, it is harder as a parent.

I've meditated for ten minutes a day for a few months now and written 500 words a day so far this year. The chain method absolutely works (I'll stay up late at night staring at a blank page until I get to my 500 words) but it can be a chore. I go through with it because I know that once I break the chain that makes it easier to break it tomorrow.

I'm hoping that my current work craziness calms down a bit in a few weeks at which point I'll be scheduling these two things on my calendar in the morning and not start the rest of my day until they are done.

Calendly also works this way. I guess I can understand it making development a bit easier (not having to tie each charge to an individual user) but they should have a warning that when you delete a user that you should also remove a license if that is your intention.

I really like the Economist. It doesn't cover all of the news but does a good job providing analysis of what they do cover.

I wouldn't guess in mom and pop businesses but I would think in small financial services, real estate firns, or other where the design might matter more.

Moving is expensive as well. When you hear about families being unable to buy diapers in bulk because they can't save the $50 needed for that and instead buy smaller quantities at twice the cost per diaper you realize that some people simply can't afford to move somewhere cheaper as crazy as that sounds.

Seriously. Last night St. Louis local news aired a story about an elderly woman who walks around her apartment. Good for the woman but I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/no-gym-no-problem-s...

I do the same with a personal dashboard that pulls in my "today" Asana tasks as my new tab homepage. Are you using the New Tab Redirect Chrome extension? It seems that you can set a homepage for when you open a browser natively with Chrome but not a new tab.

Efficiency. By using Amazon I save time and can use the time saved to create something of value or to bill more hours or something else that will lead.to more tax revenue.

I've been fantasizing about doing that myself. A couple of things that I could see being issues:

* We primarily use webex for conference calls internally (I believe there is a browser version for that now that would hopefully work on Linux) but I seem to also have apps installed for a half-dozen other conference apps that our partners might use.

* Printing and scanning (issues here were one of two reasons I went to Mac from Linux six years ago)

* Adobe products (InDesign in particular doesn't seem to have an acceptable alternative.)

For years I used Windows inside of a VM and/or remote desktop (the other reason I switched from Linux to Mac as the client seemed to keep getting worse with each version of Ubuntu) to handle working on Linux. Don't really want to go back to that but OSX feels like it is getting more sluggish and I miss the configurability of Linux. Still have it on a backup machine that is mostly used as a Plex Server and for playing Stardew Valley.

I just rolled out Confluence a couple of weeks ago after really struggling to find a better option. I looked at Quip but it felt more informal than I was comfortable in particularly the lack of ability to setup teams and permissions that way.

I'd love to see --help start with a few examples of the most common use cases and the parameters you would use. Include the exhaustive list of parameters after that. That would make the command line much more accessible for a significant portion of users. Or at least me. I'm always forgetting the syntax of commands I use infrequently.

Have any tips for converting an old and cumbersome rails app to react?

Unsuccessfully tried to order my third pair of Sibley's last week but they were discontinued. :( Got the Wilkie instead but just not the same. Too large and a white line I didn't notice online. Still ordering through them is a great experience.

I'd love to hear about the finance app!

Reading that book now and would be interested in hearing more about what you're doing. Coding your principles in a decision tree?

The decision tree sounds a bit like what Ray Dalio lays out in this Principles book. I haven't had a chance to construct one yet but it sounds like a really interesting project. Can you share a bit more about yours?

Chrome handles PDF and printing (with the preview) better than Firefox in my opinion. I probably like Chrome a bit more for dev work as well but as a user they're pretty similar with the exception of the PDFs that I mentioned.

Tab + backspace to delete those empty tasks that are created when you hit enter.

I love Asana though. I put everything in there and have it hooked up to Alexa. The only downside is that I put everything in there. I haven't had a morning email with less than 30 tasks in over a year.

I guess it is like that software that Yahoo bought from a 15 year-old that summarized articles:

https://gizmodo.com/yahoo-shutters-that-30-million-app-it-bo...

I agree with what you are saying but you saying it kind of feels like a wet blanket.

Props to these people doing what they're doing publically.

One of my favorite talks of Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series is by the author of this article:

https://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcast/overcoming-adversity-an...

I agree as well. In a talk the creator of Asana said something along the lines of their goal is enabling others to do good and do so more effectively. Software is pretty amazing.