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Ask HN: How to give feedback?

What's the best way of giving feedback ? Not formal feedback like manager to engineer. But let's say peer evaluation OR face to face to another engineer.I read Ben's article on Making of a CEO where he mentions about feedback & S* Sandwich. The message I got is that giving feedback is tricky & not one size fits all.But, I want to hear from this community on how they give feedback to...

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Ask HN: What's the mind hack?

How do you keep your mind from wandering off while you are reading a RFC/paper/spec or are coding (easy there since I am building) or learning through video? How do you keep going even after an hour or two or more ? After a while (short) my mind tells me it's enough & it wanders off. What's the hack here ?

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Re:The Really Big One on Monday July 13, 2015 @02:58PM (#9880225)
the question I would be asking myself is Am I prepared for such a natural disaster ? Or What steps can I take on a personal level to be ready ? For eg: Always have an evac bag ready to take off Or live out of a suitcase so that I dont have to worry about stuff & data. Or distribute my personal resources (cards, cash) etc in PO boxes across the country. Ofcourse, in such a huge disaster these steps wont matter but in small events, there might be of help.