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Re:Ask HN: What are you thankful for? on Friday November 29, 2019 @12:05AM (#21662188)
Thankful for living in a peaceful country. Thankful for a loving wife and a daughter and aged yet active parents. Thankful for a life where I dont have to struggle for my basic physiological needs and safety needs
This is an interesting space personally for me. I have always been thinking about personal goals, habit building. Curious about your project.

I already see a product built. Mind sharing what do you mean by open sourcing it and the timeframe of 6 months development

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Thursday July 04, 2019 @11:07PM (#20359543)
This is a great struggle for me. I too have solved my basic needs for me and my family. But always in a conflict of enjoying the moment vs worrying about future (read career here).

Dont want to quit on either but learning to separate both.

As per the book - The Power of Habit - The 5am alarm and wake up is the keystone habit which in turn triggers further habits. I found this to be true where one good habit triggers many others and vice versa is true too
Thinking fast and slow -

This book deals with lot of experiments on human decisioning and explains how impulsive and irrational our decisions can be