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Re:Defragmenting the Mind with Vipassana on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @07:42AM (#36693100)
The easiest way to think of Vipassana is as a method to defragment your mind.

Just like when you use the Windows utility to speed up your computer when things start slowing down, Vipassana does the same for your body and mind.

Marketers have ruined internet with deceptive and click baity ads.

I dont have a problem with ads, just dont sell my data to everyone who knocks on your companies doors. Happy to support ethical ads.

Twitter ads are aweful, showing unknown, click bait ads on its platform.

Re:Proof You Can Do Hard Things on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:10PM (#36689672)
"It costs you nothing to believe in yourself.

But it will cost you everything if you don't."

Discipline is a muscle. Go Build it. Key is to understand different activities require different muscles.

Be mindful of picking your activities, but dont keep on waiting.

Consider watching Dark Water movie.

Real life story of lawyer who goes after Duport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)?useski...

Re:Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users on Monday July 10, 2023 @08:07PM (#36674835)
I wonder how much of signup are driven by FOMO.

Google+ also had millions of signups in first few weeks and we all know how did the service perform.

I do feel Musk might have made several folks on Twitter angry with its arbitrary policies that Threads has a strong chance of decimating Twitter.

I wonder if these services will ever reach mass adoption.

I consider myself to be technological advanced, but other than niche photographer, i wonder if 99.99 % of population would ever go through the effort of setting such a service ?

School teacher said this, stayed with me ever since:

1) Best workout is the one you can do regularly.

2) Slowest way to get in shape is to try to do it as fast as possible.

Re:Did Airbnb kill the PM role? on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:59PM (#36674765)
Getting rid of a job title doesn't mean getting rid of the work that needs doing.

Someone still has to own the "why" and the "what" of the product you're building—if it's not the PM, then it is engineering manager or design leader taking on this role.