Blakestr

No one has really mentioned mindfulness (the "muscle" or "skill" grown by the exercise of meditation)

It seems like the real question in this thread is "How do I avoid being distracted" more than anything else.

The best analogy I can give you is a good state of mindfulness is like a really strong windows task manager. You can actually see the processes of your mind, like thoughts popping up and begin to take up system resources. If you are mindful you can see this with much more clarity than if you don't have a meditation practice. With the clarity gives the side-effect of "control"

Basically alphabetical order, but if you don't say lexicographical, it doesn't sound as smart. (I am assuming it's a more comprehensive term, having to do with other characters, other than simple letters, so that if integers were used, it would appear as 1234, where saying "in alphabetical order"doesn't make sense. But yeah, I did a double take.

Interesting take. I'm also a huge carnivore, to me there's nothing better than a rare ribeye or filet. It's going to be interesting to see how the synthetic meat movement develops. If they could "print/grow" filet mignon's and at a "frozen burger price," I feel like I'd be happy to switch.

Sam Harris's Awaken App. I've used Headspace and other apps; they've all helped with stress. Sam's approach seems to be more procedural, more of a step by step (if such a thing as true mindfulness can have a step by step).

I've meditated for the better part of a decade but after doing his 50 day course (on the app) I experienced that awakening that they talk about. While it's helped with staying focused and getting work done, I've connected more with my children and wife I have in years.

I highly recommend it to anyone whose tried or thought about meditation but just can't seem to "get it."

https://wakingup.com/

Here is the high-level break down I plan to provide. Again, high level makes me think it should be pretty brief, considering the amounts:

Salary 127,500 Hardware/demo equip 20000 Software Assets 7500 Consultants/Tech Support 10000 Conference Exhibits x 2 10000

Total Request Amount 175,000

*this lines up just fine in excel/email draft

People confuse the term meditation and mindfulness. Maybe like development vs programming.

Mindfulness is what has been spreading, but usually it is intoduced as meditation.

I didn't downvote but I can't imagine someone vomiting by simple guided mindfulness exercise. Telling someone to "focus on your breathing" or "if you find your distracted by thoughts, just be aware of those thoughts, and return to your breathing" doesn't strike me as very invasive.

Spending time trying to convince investors of what I already know and just building the damn thing without them.

Piggybacking on this (slight point on semantics but still important in terms of framing the discussion)

Don't tell them, SHOW them. The advice about displaying all of those things, almost like metrics or hitting a benchmarks is key.

There is some obvious psychology at play here - for some bosses it might be more effective to present everything in one fell swoop so you build an ironclad case with no room to argue. Another might be to either build up this proof over a course of a few weeks and mention another point and another project. With deeply held beliefs, it takes time to change one's mind and seems like a rare thing to convert someone instantly. (The question is here, how deeply does the boss believe OP does NOT deserve a promotion)

Another critical point is the company structure and finance. Is there bureaucracy the limiting fact and there simply isn't an open position? Or is the company small enough they can simply make one? To me this would be the biggest obstacle to find a way around/through.

My wife is an attorney at an appellate court and tells me she doesn't think a high majority of judges even know what a PDF is.

I'm guessing this patent is put there to give a big company like Facebook some basic legal framework to flex their muscles if ever needed; but I can't see this being enforced very easily. Maybe that's wishful thinking on my part though.

Webinars are a big thing and most users get invited to many of them, however, usually there is no interaction. If there is a chance to ask a question, it is usually confined to some VIP's who are involved in the webinars themselves.

I think Google just makes things just in case it magically goes viral. But in this case, you're going to have to make this grow by targeting the right customers.

You could also partner with a company that has PowerPoint libraries and offer this type of service to extend their functionality. (I guess they COULD copy some aspect of it as well but that's something else you'd need to plan for in any case) In the fire service we use target solutions (aka target slavery) , which is essentially a platform that lets users upload powerpoints as part of a training library. But there is NO interactivity, you are lucky to get survey monkey at the end.

40 hours has been historically used to determine full-time status (and full-time benefits) like health insurance. It's one of the reasons I think this schedule is so hard to get away from.

Have your watched every video produced by YC? I've applied this last round and if I get in, I'm pretty it was because these videos helped me write a clearer and more concise.

Even if I don't get in, these videos have taught me enough that I've made more progress and insight on the last two months than arguably in the last year. I cannot recommend watching and rewatching these videos.

Also, you can still apply now, even if it is late. You know that right?

You still had "wins" and hurdles you had to overcome. I'd leave it there. If asked, focus on those wins. If I were building a drone company in 2006, I could say I overcame engineering hurdles to design the product but failed to reach market due to government restrictions, aka FAA. That way it looks like anyone would have lost that game but you still have talent.

I think a wood grain texture would be the right choice

You could call this service "Buzzard"

I will take one Neural Lace, please.

By the way those aeron or steelcase you can usually pick up use from a furniture liquidator. Don't go spend $1,200 on a chair when you can get one for 1/3rd of that

Thank you for taking the time to explain that - it seems the "abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality,from what is strangled, and from blood" is obviously a literal interpretation. "From what is strangled and from blood" I always took as profiting from war or suffering but I understand that the challenges of scripture is determine what is literal and what is metaphorical - there's also the concept of what is an "idol" and how is it polluting.

I appreciate you clarifying this. I think I understand a bit more, that there are some aspects of medical science construed as idolatrous, as perhaps glorifying an institution of man and not God.

Have you ever heard of any talk of a ceremony that would somehow reconcile these elements? Again I'm ignorant of JW doctrine and priests don't seem as prevalent, but I'm wondering if there could ever be room for some type of transfusion ceremony that allowed for this, in the precense of correct scripture and religious authority, that was "in the service to Jehovah." Sort of a "Deo volente" thing.

Paramedic here - two main areas of concern regarding blood in the prehospital/emergency setting -

1 - Volume - You need enough fluid in a closed system to maintain pressure to push that fluid.

2. Oxygen carrying capacity - Oxygen binds with red blood cells which then deliver it to every cell in your body.

Right now the prehospital setting can more or less manage #1, we have been for a century with Normal Saline.

There is some stuff circulating (pun intended) regarding fluids that can transport oxygen but it will be years before we can use it

I'm curious about the range of derivation from blood. For example, if I took a sample of your blood and made a product that was essentially cloning your blood, would that be the same?

Some people's spiritual rejections lie more in the "we're playing God we shouldn't do x" whereas what you are describing is something in regard to the sanctity of the blood.

Actually to further my understand, would you be permitted to receive blood that you yourself had donated and had been stored for your personal use in the advent of a medical emergency? Again, I'm not trying to pry or question the validity of your beliefs, just seeking to understand.

It's years out but the slam duck proof of concept will be to take 1st year residents who have just finished med school but have had very limited patient contact and pit them against, honestly, whomever is willing. If you can diagnose any illness faster or more accurately, without having real world experience and you are doing better than a 20 year physician, to me, that puts the concept of "practicing medicine" to a new light.

I've no qualms about the levels of complexity for this endeavor. I remember sketching out my first algorithm for a "simple" heart attack and kept running out of paper and nearly had an aneurysm.

I read your question as: can I learn to manage my ADHD symptoms effectively enough to be an effective web developer?

Try this experiment: get a minimum of 8 hours of sleep for the next 5 days.

Then take a mindfulness course, there are plenty and Google is your friend. I use Waking Up.

To me I don't hear people talk about mindfulness in relation to ADHD enough. Because as you start to use mindfulness you'll find yourself being aware of when your ADHD symptoms start to really kick in and you'll be able to limit them before they put you on crazy monkey autopilot.

If you aren't on medication, do so.

How to adjust sleep (Don't round up from 7 and 1/2 hours either get eight or nine even. The trick is to take a sleeping pill if you need to for the first few nights as well as some melatonin to reset your circadian rhythm then go to bed really early. you know you had enough sleep when you naturally wake up without an alarm clock so go to bed really early and set your alarm as a backup... Meaning if you want to wake up at 8, go to bed at 11 pm, and you'll probably wake up a little after 7. )

Also make sure it is very dark where you are at, use a sleep mask, and make sure you don't have sleep apnea that's pretty important too.

So, I kinda did this - I needed a developer for my startup but couldn't afford to pay one. So I learned myself, though I didn't use a bootcamp, just tried to build what I could and learn more from MOOC's like udemy or youtube channel or discord servers. As my startup grows my first hire is going to be a lead developer. (Whom I will probably have to give some equity when he sees how much of my code he is going to have to fix)

It's a tremendous advantage if you ask me, that I can speak in his language. Ideas are a lot easier to plan out and conceptualize.

If your product is purely software, yeah, learn to code some, but remember you are doing it as a means to an end. The moment you get a professional, hand the reins over, because that's not your main strength.

I think you are doing the right thing by browsing on HN. Read what developers are talking about, there's a fair amount of time I won't even understand what the title is talking about but every time I read it, it gives me an idea about what developers struggle with.

There's no checkbox for "is now a good communicator". It's a spectrum, you just have to keep learning.

You are describing what is known as the "dark night of the soul.". (though traditionally this is a spiritual sense I think the deepness of what you're describing could be spiritual as well.)

You need to find a way to development mindfulness. There are many apps but when you are talking about being able to manage your feelings, think of this way; those monks who sat down and burned themselves alive as a protest...that's what mindfulness can do.

Sam Harris has an app called Waking Up that, in my opinion, is one of the best courses on breaking down a rather complex skillset. Good luck.

The mindfulness well help you recognize when you are starting to allow an emotion to build, so if you can catch the snowball when it's tiny, it won't become an avalanche and wreck your life.

EDIT - I couldn't be more emphatic about this - other than getting 8 hours of quality sleep, prescribed medication or therapy, this is the next best thing.

I think this is inevitable and not a bad thing but I wish we were able to talk about this better as a society.

What you are describing is a "transition" to post-scarcity, as everything becomes automated and jobs are eliminated.

And for marketing, you don't call them robots. Call them appliances. Automated Appliances maybe. Robots go berserk and Skynet over the world; appliances just cook your food :)