Give yourself something to think about before bed.
"Make X process more efficient"
"Find a way to make X more dollars"
"Come up with an idea to solve X problem"
Your subconscious will take over as you sleep.
Life hacks to master by the age of 35:
Give yourself something to think about before bed.
"Make X process more efficient"
"Find a way to make X more dollars"
"Come up with an idea to solve X problem"
Your subconscious will take over as you sleep.
Don't buy something unless you can afford 3 of them.
This framework will keep your spending in check.
And the things you buy will be more valuable to you.
Every Sunday, hold a planning session.
Write down:
→ Goals to push for
→ People to meet or chat with
→ Ideas to explore
→ Content to study
Plan EVERYTHING out.
And time block it in your calendar to make sure nothing stands in the way of success.
Only buy things that directly improve your quality of life.
Cut out the extraneous, impulse buys.
Keep goals internal for as long as possible.
Make real progress on them before you reveal them to others.
Sharing your goals too early will actually lead you to stop trying in most instances.
Don't spend precious time on toxic relationships.
If your friend group isn't aligned with where you want to be...
It's better to cut ties now rather than later.
Even if you're bad at this, find a system to memorize names.
Relationships are everything.
And the sweetest sound to any person is their own name.
Finding yourself overly stressed about something for days on end?
Ask yourself:
"Why am I really stressed about this?"
"What could I do to control this outcome?"
"Will this matter to me in a week's time?"
You can effect your mood pretty easily.
If you think positive thoughts, talk positively to others, and choose to feel confident about your decisions?
You'll likely feel pretty good most days.
The opposite is also true.
Find other ways in the day to get a boost.
Looking at your phone will usually drain your energy, not raise it.
Walk. Talk. Move. Act.
Pick your key 3 tasks every morning.
Structure your day around being successful with those no matter what.
The rest is gravy on top.
When in an argument, ask the person:
"What proof would it take to change your mind?"
One of two things will happen:
1. They have no answer, so you leave the conversation
2. They answer, and you have a productive chat
The goal isn't to make more money.
The goal is to live the way you enjoy the most.
That could mean living on an island with passive income.
That could mean building a company for 100 hours a week.
Reverse engineer from the lifestyle you want.
Plan a 3-hour deep work session daily.
Remove all distractions.
Decide the 1 thing you'll work on.
Then go heads down and get it done.
Verify that your next day is exactly what you need.
Reverse engineer your weekly goals into daily milestones.
Time block and fix your calendar accordingly.
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Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
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As someone\u2019s who\u2019s read the book, this review strikes me as tremendously unfair. It mostly faults Adler for not writing the book the reviewer wishes he had! https://t.co/pqpt5Ziivj
— Teresa M. Bejan (@tmbejan) January 12, 2021
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
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📈 ~12000 vistis
☑️ 109 transactions
💰 353€ profit (285 after tax)
I have spent 1.5 months on this app. You can make more $ in 2 days.
🤷♂️
I'm still happy that I launched a paid app bcs it involved extra work:
- backend for processing payments (+ permissions, webhooks, etc)
- integration with payment processor
- UI for license activation in Electron
- machine activation limit
- autoupdates
- mailgun emails
etc.
These things seemed super scary at first. I always thought it was way too much work and something would break. But I'm glad I persisted. So far the only problem I have is that mailgun is not delivering the license keys to certain domains like https://t.co/6Bqn0FUYXo etc. 👌
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