To stay alive
Would you say you're worried of not finding any position at all with that level of experience or do you still have options / fallbacks that you're holding on to?
You might find this interesting if you haven’t seen it already: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d6sVWEu9HWU&t=416s&pp=ygURc2t5...
If I need to I usually listen to the same two hour track by Ernesto Cortazar [1]. He has this great style where all his pieces seem simple and use a lot of repetition but at the same time are rich and have entrancing…
I think you misinterpreted what they meant
I take notes in a very similar format to Wikipedia, including the links. Just a lot more concise and with a hierarchy structure
There is this surprisingly effective feature on a browser extension called Leech Block where you can add a short delay (like 15 seconds) before the distracting sites load. It basically forces you to go through the…
Since I started working remote, I don’t feel as tired after work as I used to. It’s not just the prep/commute, I always felt there was this baseline mental overhead from working and attending meetings in an office…
The thing with profiling tools is that they're more focused on the details than the big picture at the system level. I'll definitely be using flame graphs more though, thanks for the tip. Also you are absolutely right…
Seems like someone asked the same question just 3 days ago. Here is the discussion if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31569646
Zotero is specifically built for this
The War of Art, Steven Pressfield It's written in the same concise format as The Art of War by Sun Tzu, and it's just as dense with insights. I would encourage anyone to spend just 5 min reading the first few pages of…
My biggest pitfalls were reddit and yt. I couldn’t outright ban them since they’re also a source of enrichment. The simple solution that finally worked for me was using extensions to hide everything I didn’t go there…
1. Yes and it’s quite useful. I use [1] to categorize it automatically. It helps to get a sense what I really spend my time on. As for only measuring time online, I find that less useful [1] https://activitywatch.net/
I don’t know how it would be implemented but I always thought it would have been better if there was more meaningful separation of domains, and that you need a different browser to connect to a different domain. That…
There is an option for 5000 snips per month for $5. If you annotate the pdf every time you convert to latex, it should be much cheaper
The standard advice is to get the assigned books (or highly recommended books) for each of the courses in your coming semester and work through them early. You can support them with other resources but you’ll save…
To stay alive
Would you say you're worried of not finding any position at all with that level of experience or do you still have options / fallbacks that you're holding on to?
You might find this interesting if you haven’t seen it already: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d6sVWEu9HWU&t=416s&pp=ygURc2t5...
If I need to I usually listen to the same two hour track by Ernesto Cortazar [1]. He has this great style where all his pieces seem simple and use a lot of repetition but at the same time are rich and have entrancing…
I think you misinterpreted what they meant
I take notes in a very similar format to Wikipedia, including the links. Just a lot more concise and with a hierarchy structure
There is this surprisingly effective feature on a browser extension called Leech Block where you can add a short delay (like 15 seconds) before the distracting sites load. It basically forces you to go through the…
Since I started working remote, I don’t feel as tired after work as I used to. It’s not just the prep/commute, I always felt there was this baseline mental overhead from working and attending meetings in an office…
The thing with profiling tools is that they're more focused on the details than the big picture at the system level. I'll definitely be using flame graphs more though, thanks for the tip. Also you are absolutely right…
Seems like someone asked the same question just 3 days ago. Here is the discussion if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31569646
Zotero is specifically built for this
The War of Art, Steven Pressfield It's written in the same concise format as The Art of War by Sun Tzu, and it's just as dense with insights. I would encourage anyone to spend just 5 min reading the first few pages of…
My biggest pitfalls were reddit and yt. I couldn’t outright ban them since they’re also a source of enrichment. The simple solution that finally worked for me was using extensions to hide everything I didn’t go there…
1. Yes and it’s quite useful. I use [1] to categorize it automatically. It helps to get a sense what I really spend my time on. As for only measuring time online, I find that less useful [1] https://activitywatch.net/
I don’t know how it would be implemented but I always thought it would have been better if there was more meaningful separation of domains, and that you need a different browser to connect to a different domain. That…
There is an option for 5000 snips per month for $5. If you annotate the pdf every time you convert to latex, it should be much cheaper
The standard advice is to get the assigned books (or highly recommended books) for each of the courses in your coming semester and work through them early. You can support them with other resources but you’ll save…