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Re:I'm addicted to being useful on Thursday January 22, 2026 @12:48AM (#46715743)
It's called emotional intelligence, and it's a very much needed adult skill that many lack, including self-awaraness as a pre-requisite.
Re:10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13 on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @08:18PM (#46381222)
Would love to read more on this, any blog post or writing available?

Big kudos. Such an inspiration.

Re:10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13 on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @08:03PM (#46381109)
This is literally an anti-list of bootstrapped
Re:10 years of writing a blog nobody reads on Sunday December 07, 2025 @03:58AM (#46180253)
I wish they taught this in my school!
Re:Writing a Good Claude.md on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @12:37AM (#46117972)
I always read these articles and always fail to find a good example of CLAUDE.md

Why not just to show one?

Re:If You're Remote, Ramble on Sunday August 03, 2025 @09:13PM (#44781255)
Not to mention, its how people bond...
Re:AWS launches Kiro, its Cursor clone on Monday July 21, 2025 @04:29AM (#44632948)
One issue that I am facing with Kiro is that keeps rewriting these rules when in spec mode, even though I already have my PRD and tasks.json to reference.

Was it built to only adhere to what is in .kiro folder?

Re:Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation on Thursday April 24, 2025 @04:51AM (#43780568)
Its the same h4x0rs who would build facebook in a weekend but they didn't
Re:I don't like traveling anymore on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @08:11PM (#43627713)
This!

+ Nature trips. I went to Taiwan for 7 days experiencing cities, shores, mountains, forests, lakes and gorges. Holy cow the most underrated country and travel with a cherry on the pie of having your favourite musician playing at the end of the trip.

Re:The blissful Zen of a good side project on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @05:00AM (#43619669)
Sports is a great way to achieve that
Don't take it too harshly, most of HN would build facebook in a weekend and exit for billions. And usually they only see their circle of influence without actually trying to be a manager in a first place to understand what does it take.

Their manager is now a business stakeholder, that is even worse...

Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it on Friday March 07, 2025 @09:16PM (#43296941)
Love it, maybe it is time to seriously pick up programming!
Re:Half-Life on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @09:01PM (#43179816)
I remember Soldier of Fortunte, at the time I was still in my home country and somehow I get to find the CD.

It was a great game and one of those which stuck in my head despite being a kid back then.

You clearly didn't reach Ravenholm because throwing the saws into zombies never been that fun.
Re:Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:28PM (#42942249)
Think the majority of the technical crowd overestimates the value of the idea, building something and actually getting and talking to customers. 99% of folks will do nothing about this.
Re:Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:30PM (#42799610)
So whats next?
I agree with your disagreement. The retrieval of pen and paper are awful.

The problem is that we are overly complicating PKMs and and knowledge systems and focusing on storage instead of thinking or active retrieval which mostly comes from the fact that people tend not to know what is important and how to engage with it.

A simple journal timeline with bullet points and insights / interesting things that are relevant to me made a difference.

I have no idea how I would have stored these in a paper format dragging with me whilst travelling.

Re:Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects on Saturday January 04, 2025 @09:41PM (#42599318)
Yep a good article about this: https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-70-problem-hard-truths-abou...

LLMs are good for the first 70% (I'd argue probably 50%).

Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:53AM (#42593504)
Isn't it basically separating your identity from your work and finding meaning in different parts of life (relationships, interests)?
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:52AM (#42593496)
Having a spouse helps, but overall I think this is a road to depression. People are social creatures and you need to be proactive with friends especially in the adulthood and also participate in communities if time allows (sports, interests etc.)
Re:Fractional Jobs – The Job Board for Fractional Work on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:37AM (#42538120)
Informative. I almost tend to think there should be a division between advisors and hands-on work fractionals.
I started with non-technical skills at the earlier stages of my life (sales, marketing, communication) so my goal in the next 10 years is to pick-up:

- Programming and be proficient with one language fundamentals (for now JS/TS) - launchschool seems like a great place for mastery learning.

- Math academy for learning math as an adult with a similar principle of mastery.

On a personal front I've managed to lose 14kgs with the skill of consistency of calorie tracking with Macrofactor and strength training + walking.

And last but not least the self-discovery, meditation and couple counseling made the major difference in my day to day.

I was actually looking at it from a different business model perspective. There are some APIs that do both print and ship in various formats but there is definitely a markup on top. Aggregating printers that are digital enough is quite a challenge of its own though :)
I landed on this page thanks to the newsletter.

I also use Raycast HackerNews aggregation but I appreciate your email every time it lands.

Very cool! Always wondered how solo engineers deal with physical and shipping? I suppose there is some sort of API that allows prints and shipping on behalf?

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