Life

Resources

• 13 Lessons Learned by Matthew McConaughey

• What You'll Wish You'd Known

  • instead of working back from a goal, work forward from promising situtions. That is, look at the options that you have now and choose those the will give you the most promising range of options afterward
  • your first task in life should be figuring out what are you interested in, curiosity turns work into play

• The ABC’S of Guiding the Child - Rudolf Dreikurs, M.D.

• Research Shows People Become Increasingly Unhappy Until Age 47.2

• Steve Jobs's philosophy (Comic)

• Handful of long-form posts on lifestyle

• Why Are You Alive – Life, Energy & ATP (2020)

• Ask HN: I implemented the life I designed: perfect but I feel lost. What now? (2020)

• Life is Short (2016) (HN)

• On the Use of a Life (2020) (HN) (Lobsters)

• How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time (2020) (HN)

• I turn 27 today, here's ~27 micro-essays on life (2020)

• Ask HN: What's Life All About? (2020)

• Tips for a Better Life (2020) (HN)

• What If You Could Do It All Over? (2020) (HN)

• Powerful Life Skills (2021)

• Great Essays of Life Advice

• Jordan Peterson on Rules for Life, Psychedelics, The Bible, and Much More (2021)

• How to Build a Life - The Atlantic - Column about pointing yourself toward happiness.

• Ask HN: What small thing helped you appreciate life more? (2021)

• Minimum Viable Self - "Seen from a distance, (other people’s) existence seems to possess a coherence and a unity which they cannot have, in reality, but which seems evident to the spectator."

• In praise of habits – so much more than mindless reflexes

• What's the fastest way you've seen someone fuck up their life? - brain injuries are terrifying

• How Covid Stole Our Time and How We Can Get It Back

• TWH#37: A Recipe for Self-Improvement

• It's worse than you think - When you stumble upon a problem, ask yourself "What if this situation is even worse than I thought?". Often the things are not even very hard but impossible. The author argues that realising that the situation is completely hopeless let's you unclench and relax.

• Life Is Not Short - Life is not short, the real issue is that we waste so much of it. We wouldn't let anyone steal our property but we let others steal our time.

  You should live your life intentionally, instead of having your time stolen from you little by little. You should organize each day as if it were your last, so that you neither need to long for nor fear the next day. You should avoid spending time on people and things that don’t really matter to you.

• Thinking in Bets: How to Make Decisions Like a Poker Player

• Things you're allowed to do

  • Treat fines like payments
  • Ignore what’s on the jobs page and directly pitch someone at a company on hiring you
  • Negotiate for better terms in your job offer - easier than asking for higher salary

• How to Get Better - Therapy, journaling, and meditation have all been shown to improve mental health.

• What is your time really worth to you? - tool that helps you estimate how much money each hour is worth to you, so that you can make wiser decisions about how to spend that time.

  • my estimated value of free time is €39 per hour