![]() ![]() Noticing biases in others is easy, noticing biases in yourself is hard. How you spend every day is how you spend your life.ģ5. You don’t have to brew the most amazing coffee if your customers know the coffee will always be hot.ģ4. Good reputations are valuable because they’re rare (easily destroyed and hard to rebuild). Cultivate a reputation for being dependable. People make things harder than they have to be and get frustrated when they can’t succeed. Find the easiest way to start exercising. Make accomplishing things as easy as possible. Take broad-spectrum advice like this as needed, but the best way to get help is to ask honest friends who love you.ģ2. The best advice is personal and comes from somebody who knows you well. If you listen to successful people talk about their methods, remember that all the people who used the same methods and failed did not make videos about it.ģ1. There are no pop-up warnings if you’re about to do something foolish, or if you’ve been going in the wrong direction for too long. If you’re not that smart but can communicate ideas clearly, you have a great advantage over everybody who can’t communicate clearly.Ģ9. You can improve your communication skills with practice much more effectively than you can improve your intelligence with practice. You won’t be able to accomplish great things if you’re only relying on motivation.Ģ8. The former can be trained, the latter is fleeting. People, on average, end up happier when they take the plunge.Ģ7. Are you on the fence about breaking up or leaving your job? You should probably go ahead and do it. Getting your creation out into the world is more important than getting it perfect.Ģ6. History remembers those who got to market first. Phones have gotten heavier in the last decade and they’re actually pretty hard on your wrists! Use a computer when it’s an alternative or try to at least prop up your phone.Ģ5. Vitamin D supplementation does seem to work, which is important because deficiency is common.Ģ4. Don’t waste money on multivitamins, they don’t work. Even the bare minimum (15 minutes a week) has a huge impact. Exercise is the most important lifestyle intervention you can do. Exercise (weightlifting) not only creates muscle mass, it also improves skeletal structure. This will reduce eye strain and is easy to remember (or program reminders for).Ģ1. The 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes of screenwork, look at a spot 20 feet away for 20 seconds. Reward yourself after completing challenges, even badly.Ģ0. It is a place for accomplishing things.ġ9. A workspace is not a place for storing things. Treat every object as an imposition upon your attention, because it is. They’re easy to learn and you’ll get tasks done faster and easier.ġ8. If you keep doing a sequence “so simple a computer can do it”, make the computer do it.ġ6. ![]() You can automate mundane computer tasks with Autohotkey (or AppleScript). Will return inferior results compared to:ġ5. Advanced search features are a fast way to create tighter search statements. When googling a recipe, precede it with ‘best’. Buy a few herbs and spices and experiment away.ġ3. Food taste can be made much more exciting through simple seasoning. Opening windows for a few minutes after cooking can dramatically improve air quality.ġ2. All it requires is a few hours one day to prepare many meals for the week.ġ1. Food actually can be both cheap, healthy, tasty, and relatively quick to prepare. Steeping minutes: Green at 3, black at 4, herbal at 5. If you’re low on time, stop looking for great deals and just buy things quickly online.ĩ. If you’re low on money, take more time to find deals. When buying things, time and money trade-off against each other. It’s more personal and the band gets more money.Ĩ. Buy them merch from a band they like instead. This is because any rule would be superior to our implicit rules (“keep this broken stereo for five years in case I learn how to fix it”).ħ. Once clear rules are established, junk will probably cease to be a problem. Establish clear rules about when to throw out old junk. Less time navigating between windows means more time for thinking.Ħ. If your work is done on a computer, get a second monitor. “Where is the good knife?” If you’re looking for your good X, you have bad Xs. Things you use for a significant fraction of your life (bed: 1/3rd, office-chair: 1/4th) are worth investing in.Ĥ. If you’re with one of the former, have a good explanation for what those $20 are buying.ģ. Some banks charge you $20 a month for an account, others charge you 0. You’ll get real people arguing, as compared to the SEO’d Google results.Ģ. If you want to find out about people’s opinions on a product, google reddit. The other day I made an advice thread based on Jacobian’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in.ġ. ![]()
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