Hacker News with Generative AI: Personal Development

High Agency in 30 Minutes (highagency.com)
Warning: This is not doom scrolling. It’s an idea so simple yet effective it may change how you view reality.
Productivity, Personal Development, Self-Help
4 points by DeusExMachina 3 days ago | 0 comments
Fuckarounditis (2011) (leangains.com)
Dear readers, it is with troublesome news I break my three months of silence.
Health, Personal Development, Lifestyle
25 points by fzliu 9 days ago | 28 comments
Books on Making and Maintaining Friendships (scotthyoung.com)
As I write this, I’m wrapping up the sixth month of my year-long Foundations project. This month’s focus is outreach—making and maintaining friendships. In this post, I’ll share lessons from the eight books I read on this topic. Next week, I’ll share my personal reflections on this month’s work.
Friendship, Self-Help, Books, Personal Development
77 points by sundarurfriend 10 days ago | 36 comments
The Software Engineering Identity Crisis (annievella.com)
Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code.
Software Engineering, Identity, Career, Personal Development
142 points by napolux 10 days ago | 159 comments
Avoiding the Automation of Your Heart (gurwinder.blog)
In an age of automation, how do we maintain our agency?
Automation, Human Agency, Personal Development, Technology
3 points by paulpauper 17 days ago | 1 comments
Knowledge Base as an Across-Time Thinking Tool (wielopolski.substack.com)
A Personal Knowledge Base is an ideal tool for Across-Time Thinking.
Knowledge Management, Productivity, Personal Development
4 points by pfilo 18 days ago | 0 comments
A Committed Year (ramijames.com)
Not diving as deep as I could into software development was something that I've always regretted, and a year ago today, I decided that I wanted to do something about it.
Software Development, Career Change, Personal Development
18 points by ramijames 25 days ago | 7 comments
Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair (bearblog.dev)
When it comes to learning a new skill such as how to drive a car, playing a sport, or an academic discipline, there is a unique relationship between a person’s confidence and their level of competence at different points of the journey.
Learning, Education, Personal Development, Math
230 points by gmays 31 days ago | 156 comments
Show HN: I built a 1:1 coaching service to reduce my screen time (zabit.com)
A personal coach to cut down on screen time
Productivity, Personal Development, Health, Technology
11 points by roddylindsay 33 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline (lifeweeks.app)
"Sometimes life seems really short, and other times it seems impossibly long. But this chart helps to emphasize that it’s most certainly finite. Those are your weeks and they’re all you’ve got."
Life Hacks, Visualization, Web Development, Personal Development
247 points by czue 35 days ago | 68 comments
Knitting Your Parachute (macsparky.com)
At a recent MacSparky Labs event, a few folks started asking about career change—how to do it, when to think about it, and what it feels like to make a big shift.
Career Change, Personal Development, Life Advice
96 points by 1123581321 40 days ago | 23 comments
Be Curious, Always (rishikeshs.com)
Life Advice, Personal Development
10 points by rishikeshs 40 days ago | 2 comments
Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life (johnnydecimal.com)
Johnny.Decimal is designed to help you find things quickly, with more confidence, and less stress.
Organization, Productivity, Personal Development
578 points by debone 40 days ago | 291 comments
Ask HN: Advice for someone entering their 30s (ycombinator.com)
Life Advice, Career Advice, Personal Development
12 points by marclave 45 days ago | 17 comments
I conditioned myself to fail (brainbun.com)
Over the years I’ve literally built hundreds of projects. Some with a lof of potential. Others just batshit crazy ideas.
Personal Development, Motivation, Productivity
162 points by brainbun 58 days ago | 78 comments
Ask HN: Are there "story-based" and "fact-based" people? (ycombinator.com)
I'm trying to process some conflict I've experienced, both in jobs and in my personal life. One synthesis I'm converging on is the idea that there are "story-based" people, and "fact-based" people. I self-identify as "fact-based", so I'm trying to articulate this while adjusting for my bias towards fact-basis :)
Psychology, Human Nature, Personal Development, Conflict Resolution
19 points by brw12 63 days ago | 32 comments
How to know when it's time to go (bitfieldconsulting.com)
I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. When you hate your job, no matter how much you try to put up with it, there comes a point where you’re mad as hell and you’re just not going to take it anymore. So, maybe this is the right moment to reflect: is it time to go?
Careers, Job Satisfaction, Personal Development
20 points by chautumn 71 days ago | 7 comments
'Everything we were taught about success is wrong' (theguardian.com)
Made good life choices yet still feel dissatisfied? A life coach suggests an alternative way to look at our goals and aspirations to find more positive outcomes
Success, Life Coaching, Personal Development, Psychology
17 points by jethronethro 76 days ago | 8 comments
I am offering mentoring: In which I help you (dynomight.substack.com)
I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d find useful.
Mentoring, Career Advice, Personal Development
28 points by crescit_eundo 76 days ago | 47 comments
What I Learned (and Unlearned) Reading 10 Books on Nutrition (scotthyoung.com)
As I write this, I’m in the final stretch of the fourth month of my Foundations project.
Nutrition, Personal Development, Learning, Books, Health
7 points by paulpauper 78 days ago | 0 comments
I hated coding, but I learned to love it again (shilin.ca)
I quit my software job in October, two years ago. I was tired and extremely frustrated. Things that I used to enjoy in the past no longer satisfied me. Those things were mostly related to coding. But like any fire, I started as a slowly burning dumpster until I hit a critical point and exploded. And when it happened, I quit.
Coding, Personal Development, Career Change, Software
6 points by true_pk 78 days ago | 0 comments
It's Not Your Fault You're Behind in Life – A Software Engineer's Struggle [video] (youtube.com)
Software Engineering, Career Advice, Personal Development, Video
6 points by _venkatasg 82 days ago | 0 comments
The Tsunami of Burnout Few See (blogspot.com)
That's the problem with deploying play-acting as "solutions:" play-acting doesn't actually fix the problems at the source, it simply lets the problems run to failure.
Burnout, Work Culture, Personal Development, Mental Health
577 points by dxs 83 days ago | 341 comments
You can't optimize your way to being a good person (vox.com)
I am a recovering optimizer.
Ethics, Self-Improvement, Psychology, Personal Development
111 points by rntn 85 days ago | 166 comments
Ask HN: I'm 38 and I have just left my last startup. What should I do next? (ycombinator.com)
I'm 38 and I have just left my last startup. What should I do next?
Career Advice, Startups, Personal Development
11 points by drumnerd 90 days ago | 10 comments
10-Step Anti-Procrastination Checklist (2013) (lesswrong.com)
Despite recent strides in my productivity habits, I still catch myself procrastinating at work more often than I'd like.
Productivity, Self-Improvement, Time Management, Personal Development, Psychology
10 points by eamag 94 days ago | 4 comments
Reflecting on Life (pocoo.org)
Last year I decided that I want to share my most important learnings about engineering, teams and quite frankly personal mental health.
Engineering, Teams, Personal Development
10 points by Tomte 98 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Have you ever taken a career break or gap year to hack? (ycombinator.com)
Have any of you taken a career break or gap year just to hack on interesting projects?
Career Breaks, Programming, Personal Development, Software Development
104 points by dheera 101 days ago | 76 comments
Ask HN: Who has an interesting job? (ycombinator.com)
If your work brings you a sense of fulfillment, interest, or enjoyment I would love to hear more about it and what about your job allows you to feel this way.
Careers, Work, Job Satisfaction, Personal Development, Hacker News
36 points by nizbiz 109 days ago | 34 comments
Ask HN: How do I rebuild at 36yo after a checkered career of undiagnosed ADHD? (ycombinator.com)
After 36 years of spinning my wheels unfocused, scatterbrained, and anxious, I was finally and recently diagnosed with ADHD.
ADHD, Career Advice, Personal Development, Self-Improvement
46 points by poorinterview 113 days ago | 26 comments