I still remember the day when angularjs was a new thing(around 2015 perhaps) and as a newcomer I was sucked into it. Just loved the thing. A year later, there were news about Observable JavaScript objects. So objects could send a notification about themselves having been changed. And when do so, do DOM changes could be done accordingly, without having to implement a render algorithm and having to compare shadow nodes with new render results to see what changed every time any data change occurs.
I don't think we are past that with React, and as the author mentioned there should be absolutely no reason for a developer to worry about rendering performance (the amount you have to use react, with for example useMemo, useCallback) and is something to be looked after and questioned.
Another argument of mine[0] would be the definitions that have been introduced by react. Component, state, hooks. It seems like we have forgotten about what they are actually called, and its function is in the context of programming (functions, variables, events, etc.). And so people become solely a React developer and can't really see a way out. (from the article: "And maybe—just maybe— your current satisfaction comes, at least a little bit, from simply not knowing what you’re missing.")
I had the same nearly the same situation, like 70% to 80% of the sandwich kid mentioned in the beginning.
Its impossible to read a summary of what have happened with me, because it would be so long that I would never end.
A short summary of the beginning would be something like this:
I just never accepted anything coming from adults, teachers. I saw when they said something to me, than the next second do the very opposite. And I realized that when my parents divorced, that everything that I learned from them needs to be erased. They could not tell why they divorced, a specific reason. Because it never really is about one thing from what I can tell now. It was not something I come up with, it was more like a realization, hard truth, something that hit me hard, or something around these lines.
And then I just proceeded to build up a mental image about the world from the ground up. I guess we all do that while growing up, but I really just couldn't accept anything anyone told me to do, or think the way they want me to.
Cant say that I 'am a very successful person. Sometimes I can be spot on, even on very large scale questions, using my own version of the world. I was able to make a really good investment choice, when everyone was shitting themselves, and running around like a beheaded chicken that the world was about to end. 2008 financial crisis and Covid. (I was in 7th grade in 2008 with really shitty grades)
And sometimes I miss by a mile, usually when around topics where feelings must be involved. That is the part that I am trying to get better since I've realized.
I think its more about some things can make you or brake you. Resilience is understanding the real reasons why something happened. Like someone got angry at work when I asked him to send some documents for me. If the person is rude and got, to some extent angry at me, than I could translate that as that person not liking me, or that the person has some difficulties at home. In the first choice we could grind on about why is that, what have I done wrong, where in the other, you just move on. At least in my experience.
My very TLDR summary:
The older people at the firm had the same experience coming into this business. So they expect every new comer to behave the same. Its that simple.
Doctors do that with residents which I think is more concerning.
I read about it in a book called why we sleep[1] about sleep.
[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501...
I am not expert in economics, but form what I see:
- Not being able to print money might sound really good first, but this could be the reason COVID haven't done the havoc it would have without that money. Stopping businesses from collapse is crucial, no mater at what cost. Why? You really want your local super market to be totally empty? And scavenge for food? No. We just need a way to be able to prevent it. This is what helped in 2008, and currently trying to help.
What this money printing is going to cause, we don't know, but its better than dieing because of not having the ability to intervene when we have to.
- We always need some way of policing this society as a whole. We cant really have nice things. There is a reason we have locks, and fences. Wouldn't it be good if we were are just one happy family(I just laughed myself to death saying this)? No crimes, no anything. Everybody just live a happy life without any crime. That would be wonderful. But we all know that is not really what is happening.
I feel like that's the fairy tale crypto currency is selling, and that's why it sells really good, as always, we always thrive some easy way to make a living, make money, whatever. And crypto currency checks a lot of boxes we are all want.
I feel like every 2nd man on planet earth bought TSLA at this point.
When they did a 5to1 split, the price just doubled, giving birth to around 250bn$, just like that. Seemingly without anything significant happening around Tesla.
I cant help but think that people only want more, and the amount of people who feel the same way are reached another peak. The last time splitting has this big of an effect on the price, was in the dot com bubble.
I hope I'm wrong.
I also left every social media stuff behind. But I consider being on HN and reading some comments here and there as practicing basic human behavior. Its the same in real life, I cant just leave all human interaction behind. I must be able to deal with people. I think I can practice this a little.
I realized the aforementioned, checking my points and who responded what to my thoughts. I actually made an adblock rule to block out my points. So I dont get that rush, because I realized that too, that everytime I arrive at HN, I just checked my points, and if it were more than before, I felt the rush. And I just knew it was bad, and that is not indeed what I come for to this site.
In Hungary we have the obligation of a 10minutes break by law.
Since I've started to take 5minutes of break every hour, whatever I was doing, but really. I was in full blast "code" mode, in the flow, or whatever you want to call it, I just paused. No matter what. Even if you enjoying what you do. Just stop! In the middle of a "coding block", or a smaller feature I was implementing, I just paused. Than just really tried not to think about anything at all, for those 5minutes.
This mind exercise really helped me with my daily problem solving ability. I feel like the longer I am doing this, the better it gets over time. Its amazing.
My daily night routine includes looking at a picture of dinosaurs, and a high resolution picture of the hubble telescope[1] and realize that there is something that drove the making of all of this, the process of evolving, of galaxies, bacteries, dinosaurs, so on...being huge and getting big, as dinosaurs, galaxies, humans did. And the variety of those, and so on...None of those made any conscious decision of, for example growing a wing in the future, or the shape, or the structure, or the color if it. But yet it did happen.
So there is that thing that drove the making and changing of everything. And that there is no I or you, there is just this thing of making without knowing or being able to direct any of it. And this is the point where the we cant really describe it anymore precisely. Its everything you can not think of. The opposite of what the brain is capable of comprehending.
If I can keep this point of "worldview" so to say, before actually falling asleep, I get the best sleep anyone can wish for.
I learned that trying to explain this topic to others is like forbidden fruit. Unless asked for. But I am going to write some anyways, because this why we are at this forum anyways.
There is no thing like ego, its not somebody. That's the problem itself. Its just your mind, which is forgotten that its just your tool given to you to put it to good use. And than there is something else behind it, that comes first. That perceives the output of the mind. Emotions, memories, all kinds of perceptions, everything.
After reading a lot of stuff, not particularly mindfulness but about anything, it really changed how i view the world. And i feel like it really comes down to the level of awareness you have about your inner working as a human.
One great example I experienced and got me speechless, more than once or twice:
Little children, who barely able to talk, just about 3 or 4 years old, got a question about about who did something bad in the past? And they are going to say their name. And the "adults" in the room are going to laugh, because it sounds funny to them. But the child did not intended it to be a joke, that`s obvious. Its that they does not yet identified themselves with their memories. And the adults laughed because its so obvious for them to say: "I did it". But its really just a memory at that point.
I surprised how the article or any of the comments did not address pornography.
Having been given up on it years from now, so I can talk out of experience.
The number and clarity of with which women kept and keep on signifying to me to have sex with them, or just they interested in me, are just crazy.
Usually when I start a friendly chat, it takes 2 minutes without me trying anything to make them come closer to me and make em do their shit, whatever they do when they are into you and willing to show it to you.
I don't want to go into story telling, because you can have your own research and read some other peoples experiences about this. Search for nofap in google.
There is of course a lot more to than just not doing something, but it is a really huge leap towards the correct road. (which is in this case getting more sex :))
What about all the other paywalls I would have to pay to read an article? I just instantly close the tab when I met with one. I get it they live out of money, but I dont feel like paying to 10+ different websites.
After reading through the comments, I'd like to approach from a different angle.
Summary: you better of learning more about human behavior, and how we operate on a daily basis then reading every book on economy.
When I heard in 2008 as a kid, that the world is in a financial crisis because the investors are scared, I had no idea what is going in. I was like, those people are grown man, how come they fear something they do all the time? And why does investors mood correlates to financials? How can a grown man have a fear of investing as an investor, it was odd at a time for me. Then I went ahead and played outside like nothing is happening.
I've read a lot of books just about everything, like on every topics i could get my hands on. Some of em are: Thinking, Fast and Slow, The power of habbit, Deep Simplicity, Intelligent Investor and much more, not exclusively from hackernewsbooks.com.[0]
I always arrived at the conclusion of the market is eventually run by people(no shit). At some point in time people come up with the idea of having a stock exchange or whatever you want to call it. Without people it would be non-functional, non-existent. So if you want to know about the working of market, you better of reading about humans, human mind. What drives us, why we do things, fears, and so much more. And the best thing about this is that you can see for yourself, it feels I am doing a research, but on myself.
There is not a single silver bullet in this topics of course, but one book I most often hear is Thinking, Fast and Slow, mentioned before, its really worth to read it!
Sometimes its driven by fear, like right now. In 2008 it was greed (yeah its usually not just one thing, but you get the idea). So at the why and how, I usually end up with human behavior. And since you cant determine what someone is going to do, feel or think, you cant really tell what is going to happened next, or in the future.
But after reading more and more about humans, it gets a little bit clearer as you read more books and connect the dots. And you are going to experience everything for yourself. You can be your own research subject. The past couple of years I've been doing that and I really enjoying it.
I still remember the day when angularjs was a new thing(around 2015 perhaps) and as a newcomer I was sucked into it. Just loved the thing. A year later, there were news about Observable JavaScript objects. So objects could send a notification about themselves having been changed. And when do so, do DOM changes could be done accordingly, without having to implement a render algorithm and having to compare shadow nodes with new render results to see what changed every time any data change occurs. I don't think we are past that with React, and as the author mentioned there should be absolutely no reason for a developer to worry about rendering performance (the amount you have to use react, with for example useMemo, useCallback) and is something to be looked after and questioned.
Another argument of mine[0] would be the definitions that have been introduced by react. Component, state, hooks. It seems like we have forgotten about what they are actually called, and its function is in the context of programming (functions, variables, events, etc.). And so people become solely a React developer and can't really see a way out. (from the article: "And maybe—just maybe— your current satisfaction comes, at least a little bit, from simply not knowing what you’re missing.")
[0] - https://medium.com/@ngergo/describing-how-react-works-in-com...