Viktor Frankl man's search for meaning - great perspective I needed while going through an emotionally difficult breakup. Basically it's a story about a psychologist during the holocaust and his experience in concentration camps. How it changed people and the experiences he lived through.
The big question in the book he's trying to answer is why do some people give up while others Excell in life.
Nobody knows what a great investment is, just understand your risk threshold and be OK with taking risks.
If you want a general rule of thumb look to invest in the broader market mainly and then have smaller portions of your portfolio invested in riskier assets.
This isn't a total cultural norm, if anything I think it's a view from america a few generations ago. For instance all of my friends and extended friend groups are open about our incomes.
With complete total strangers I would totally agree people generally don't lead with their salary. But after knowing people for a while it's come up a bunch and it's a taboo.
I guess it's more about priorities, if you want to build a web app don't reinvent the underlying protocols. If you want to build an embedded system for monitoring room temperature don't invent your own locks.
But if you want to make a lock by all means make a lock, just don't go and reinvent the chip architecture...
Check out this project called libretime, in the past they used liquid soap for their playback. Basically it's an online Foss radio streaming platform mainly used for radiostations to add in automation for their coverage
In a lot of the software I've written for businesses telemetry was critical in being able to get quick answers to things like "is anyone using this specific portion of the app?" Or "are the new users using the application yet? "
Correct me if I'm incorrect but the idea of the hn forum is to discuss and share things which spark curiosity or something along those lines. I believe this article and conversation is incredibly curiosity inspiring. Also if hn was to deviate from that aim I think hn would really cease to be what it is.
A more useful one is the extensive of the satellite network which powers our ability to share and collaborate like we are doing now, along with the GPS network allowing us to travel more easily.
I hear you about the enviormental concerns and it's terrible how we are not aware or thoughtful about how all the externalities/problems which are created by new technologies. But to say we should not invest in space tech is a real step in the wrong direction if you care deeply about the environment. Some of the best energy capture technologies will come from our ability to master space travel, as well as the need to understand Terra forming other plants which will help us tackle climate problems here on earth.
Really like async await. The only case ive found for callbacks is for the top level function call in a script. Calling ".then()" is useful since top level await is still not a thing, and may never be.
The big question in the book he's trying to answer is why do some people give up while others Excell in life.