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Ask HN: Been getting calls from “Windows technical department”
I have been getting calls from "Windows technical department" in the last few days. First one I can laugh on. Second time, after asking windows key repeatedly, the person started calling foul names. The latter calls, I just ignored them. Once they called me twice a day, without to bother to change the calling number. I know it's a scam by less respectful people. How can we prevent these...
Ask HN: How to manage focus in a stop and go workflow
I work with data, and my typical workflow involves cycles of high focus(e.g. writing data extract SQL code)for ~15 minutes and low focus (e.g. waiting the extract to return data) for ~5 minutes. I repeat the cycle continuously. Lately, it takes more mental overhead to come back to high focus mode because my mind wonders too far during low focus mode. Does anyone share this situation and was...
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”