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'The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.' Aristotle
1. 10 Money Lessons I Wish I Knew When I Was 25
Andrew Lokenauth goes over money lessons that everyone in their 20s should know about.
2. This Conversation Changed My Life
Sahil Bloom details a conversation that changed his life.
3. Cognitive Dissonance Theory and How it Impacts US
Cognitive dissonance is a psychology theory about how we strive to make sense about conflicting cognitions and behaviours.
4. A Guide to Becoming More Confident in Job Interviews (and in Life)
One of the most common pieces of advice given to jobseekers is to “be more confident.” But what does that really mean? And how can you do it? The truth is, conf
5. Here's Why High Achievers Feel Like Failures
The invisible progress paradox is a trap in personal growth.
6. Why the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer
It’s just the way things are and have always been, or is it?
7. Is PHP a Dead Language [Part 2]
This Slogging thread by Arthur Tkachenko, David Smooke, Limarc Ambalina and khunshan occurred in slogging's official #programming channel, and has been edited for readability.
8. Four Possible Ways to React to Other People's Happiness or Misery
Schadenfreude, Compassion, Envy and Mudita: explaining how we react to other people's fortunes or misery
9. Seven Invaluable Lessons Linux Taught Me
Oh boy, this is going to be interesting. A freelance writer with a law degree writes about Linux. Just when you thought you have seen and read it all.
10. 4 Steps to Actually Finish your Side Project
We’ve all seen the graveyard of abandoned projects folders. Desperately competing for attention but failing in the glow of a new adventure or app that will change the world. I use to do that all the time, now I finished 4 apps, and 2 other projects within the last year by applying the following steps.
11. No One Knows That You're Great At What You Do
This is an article by Eko Adetolani that explains low-effort ways that people can use to get recognition and visibility for their work.
12. How To Be Authentic
There’s a veneer that people maintain online — and we’ve all done it — showing audiences a polished, glowing side of themselves no matter what else might be going on in their lives.
13. What I Learnt from Jordan Peterson
I hadn’t heard of Jordan Peterson in December, but the second I watched his videos online I was hooked.
14. 3 Life Lessons From John Grisham’s Writing Habits
Adopting a stoic mindset, employing consistent habits, learning to enjoy improving in our craft could bring meaningful insights into our efforts.
15. How to Be Good Mentor for a Fellow Designer
About to become a design mentor? Use our guide to navigate through this journey and avoid pitfalls.
16. Die With Zero Regrets and 100% Fulfillment
How to die with zero regrets and 100% fulfillment?
17. Why Feeling Behind Means You Are Ahead
If you're playing the long exponential game and feel like you're behind, you're not behind. You're exactly where you're supposed to be.
18. The Secret Hidden Power of Questions
Most people are running on default questions they never chose to install.
19. Stop Waiting to Live your Life, from The Monk and The Riddle
<em>As a part of my </em><a href="https://hackernoon.com/how-i-live-reading-books-so-they-last-6f93c7e7d702" target="_blank"><em>book reading system</em></a><em>, I list key concepts I want to remember from every book I read. This article lists my top four lessons from </em><a href="http://amzn.to/2uGZ5s9" target="_blank">The Monk and The Riddle by Randy Komisar.</a>
20. How to Achieve Hard Things following Brandon Sanderson's Advice
Brandon Sanderson, a bestselling fantasy author, presents a framework to achieve hard things, based on his experience.
21. Ikigai: The Japanese Philosophy To Find Purpose
Ikigai (生き甲斐) is a Japanese concept that means your reason for being. ‘Iki’ in Japanese means ‘life,’ and ‘gai’ describes value or worth.
22. 14 Small Productivity Principles You Can Start Practicing Today
Early in my career, I placed a lot of focus on doing more in less time. I thought I was being productive. The reality was I was simply scrambling from one task to the next without clarity on whether my work was effective or how I could do better. I focused on the end goal, the result I wanted to achieve without really caring about the process to get there.
23. Crypto Telegram Detox: The Only 7 Telegram Channels You Need in 2023
Get rid of useless telegram channels that shill crypto scams and ads. Here you'll find the list of 7 best telegram channels for crypto and web3.
24. A True Story About How Stoicism Saved a Prisoner of War: 7 Tips for Your Own Life
Stockdale had no reason to think that the day’s mission was to be anything unique.
25. Confessions Of A Shitty Leader
Growing up with a speech impediment I was constantly in awe of confident leaders, and as a result, I spent the first half of my career trying to become one. In order to get over my fear of talking, I threw myself into sales, and within a year I had reached my goal, and I was promoted to the management team.
26. A Fun Game with Post-it Notes to Learn About Your Partner
A game with post-it notes that can be played both in-person or virtually using Mural or Miro for learning about your partner's likes, dislikes, and opinions.
27. Elon Musk Says Reports Are Useless—And Honestly, He’s Not Wrong
In a recent interview with Larry Kudlow, Elon Musk shared a moment of levity amid serious discussion about government inefficiency, cyber attacks, and more.
28. Which is More Important: Confidence or Doubt?*
*Doesn’t matter, either way, you’re probably not as great as you think you are (and neither am I), so let’s instead panic (just a bit) and keep going.
29. How I Fell In Love With Python
Two years back, I was a guy with zero programming skills. For my whole life, I always kept running away from Computer Sciences and I ended up pursuing my engineering in Computer sciences only. Well it was kinda blessing in disguise because now I feel that it was right decision to choose Computer Science( just because I feel like it is much easier than other branches of engineering).
30. 44 Quotes From Kevin Kelly That Will Change Your Life
Life lessons from Kevin Kelly: 44 quotes to help master your life.
31. Unreasonable Goals Are Actually Easier to Achieve: Here's Why
"Be realistic" is a common advice, but it's often backward, says the author.
32. Invert, Always Invert: Why a Problem Reversed is a Problem Solved
"All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there." - Charlie Munger
33. How to Not Attribute to Malice Things Adequately Explained by Stupidity
We humans crave a perfectly ordered world though the chances of something going as intended is fairly rare. When there’s more than one human being involved in the equation, the predictability goes for a further toss. What do we do when things do not turn out as intended? Instead of being curious and trying to learn from the situation, our mind assumes the worst possibility.
34. Stop Trying to Transform Overnight. It’s Ruining Your Brain.
Real transformation requires your brain to physically rewire itself.
35. 5 Strategies to Overcome Confirmation Bias in Your Personal Narratives
We gravitate towards people who are like us and will most likely believe what we believe. Doesn’t it feel good when others conform to our ideas? Who likes being told that they are not right or what they believe is far from reality?
36. Don't Have Time for the Things You Love? Here's How to Solve That
The surefire way to ensure you always have time for the things you love doin.
37. This CFO Wrecked His Mercedes Trying to Kill the CEO & 3 Other Entrepreneurial War Stories
The word insane is drastically overused for everything from mild moodiness and irritability to emotional changes. That's not what this article is about...
38. The HackerNoon Newsletter: 21 Cranium-Catching Bitcoin Marketing Ideas For Dummies Savvyies (11/13/2024)
11/13/2024: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage!
39. Engineers, Stop Getting Promoted — It’s a Trap
The more skilled you become, the harder others try to pull you away from the very craft work that made you valuable in the first place.
40. A Year Long Adventure Working on Goals and Productivity
This is an article about working on goals with an accountability group.
41. Why Giving Up Is So Easy: 5 Common Reasons People Quit
Discover the 5 common reasons people give up too easily and how to overcome them. Learn how to stay motivated, push through challenges, and achieve your goals.
42. Why Harvard Alumni Are Better Than You
Harvard dropout starts a company and raises 20 million dollars. I bet you heard this story so many times and you might feel intimidated by them. But what makes
43. 87 Stories To Learn About Work Life Balance
Learn everything you need to know about Work Life Balance via these 87 free HackerNoon stories.
44. Reality Is Flexible: You Just Have to Believe
Most people live as if the world is fixed. They accept circumstances as "just the way things are"
45. Becoming Consistent
Becoming Consistent
46. What I Learned from Lee Kuan Yew - The Alpha Engineer Who Built a Nation
While most of us engineer applications, APIs, or infrastructure, Lee Kuan Yew engineered a country.
47. Tennis and the Immortal Soul
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
48. Rediscovering Focus: How I Did It
After years of distractions and poor decision making. I rediscovered the art of focus. I realized that if I did not plant my butt in the chair, I would fall behind in my ambitions. Since October of last year, I have been taking serious action to improve my attention span and my ability to do deep work.
49. The Deep Work Hypothesis and its Limitations
Deep work, although a crucial skill in our current economy, is not enough to thrive in our jobs.
50. Our Greatest Dilemma as a Species: Consumerism
We are trapped in a system so deeply interconnected that our very survival paradoxically depends on a mechanism that threatens our long-term existence.
51. Why We Shouldn’t Confuse Narcissism with Self Love
t is important not to confuse narcissism with self-love because they are two very different things. Narcissism is a personality disorder characterized by an inf
52. Week 1: Breaking Patterns in Small Steps
Week 1 of my 4-week journey: Embracing change with small tasks, mystery walks, and rock climbing to build discipline and push my limits. Stay tuned!
53. Ditch The Resolutions & Become Unf*ckwithable This Year
Learn how to build unshakable inner strength with simple habits that make you unf*ckwithable.
54. Wise Ideas from 'The Psychology of Money' by Morgan Housel
Money does not buy happiness, money buys freedom. Having a bit of wealth means the possibility of taking time off from work when feeling burned out or sick.
55. 30 Years, 30 Lessons: A Journey Through Life's Wisdom
You add a little grain of wisdom to the sand castle that is your life and then you die. It’s up to you what you do in between.
56. 2018 reflected: equity crowdfunding, silver linings, and Grandma.
As 2018 is coming to an end, I thought I’d spend some time to reflect on the two most important lessons I learned in 2018, the first one about what’d predict success in an equity crowdfunding, and the second one about silver linings in trying times.
57. What Are The Seven Hidden Triggers of Stupidity?
The Princeton Review founder Adam Robinson identified seven triggers that make us stupid.
58. Interoception: The Sense Behind Wellbeing
we are not brains that have an attached body. We are bodies.
59. Leverage: The Shortcut to Outperforming Everyone
The world doesn’t reward effort. It rewards results. The secret? Leverage.
60. Building a Software Engineer Career Without Compromising Balance
In this article, Daria Nesvitailo, shares thoughts on balanced growth, professional development methods, and what it means to be an engineering leader.
61. The "Smart Person" Trap and How to Avoid It
In a world drowning in complexity, clarity isn’t just a communication skill. It’s a superpower.
62. Great Artists Steal: A Product Manager’s 56 best (and stolen) Insights from 2021
A collection of 56 ideas I came across or developed working as a product manager in 2021.
63. Game Theory’s Ultimate Answer to Real World Dilemmas: “Generous Tit for Tat”
Game theory provides compelling insights into the power of actively pursuing co-operation over competition, even when it exacts a heavy price.
64. Mindful Work: Capturing, Prioritizing and Working on Tasks Effectively
We owe it to ourselves to try to find a productivity approach that works for us.
65. Cutting Through the Bullshit: Embracing a Meaningful Life
I reflect on the shortness of life and that it's short and that spending time on bullshit like toxic interactions and wasting time is no longer working for me
66. 19 Reasons To Date An Engineer
Why date an engineer? He has the right kind of confidence. He is incredibly rational. He doesn’t know how hot he is!
67. "We need to do something about death", said Liz Eddy, Lantern's Co-Founder and CEO
Lantern was nominated as one of the best startups in New York City in Startups of the Year hosted by HackerNoon
68. Methods to Reduce Biased Thinking
Although we tend to adhere to malfunctioning heuristics, this does not give us a justification for not trying to fix our biased thinking.
69. Doers Vs No Doers: An Analytical Approach
To start with, this is a tricky topic, where I might find people in conflict with my perception but after all when isn’t conflict a promising act. Conflict by its meaning is a disagreement where one holds an entirely opposite perspective and surely does one defend it as if it was their very own life at stake. I think that is a beauty of it, perhaps lasting for a long time that is unexpected or usual. I would put it as my experience to suggest that I have seen people get excited and enthusiastic about doing something. It can be an idea or a project or anything that they either want to achieve in life or a common goal to which one puts an effort.
70. How Leonardo da Vinci Became a Pioneer of Virtual Reality
The greatest message we can take from da Vinci’s life is maintaining a child-like wonder sense and noticing the unseen as we were to check Mona Lisa’s smile.
71. How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 - Table of Links
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
72. Getting Off the Beaten Path Is NOT EASY, BUT it Is Rewarding
If you want freedom, security, and privacy, it's possible and worth the investment.
73. My 100 Failed Interviews: Recommendations From a Guru
This method can help IT professionals at any level - junior, senior, middle - and in any programming field - Android, iOS, frontend, backend, fullstack, etc.
74. Sustaining Our Creativity through Managing Multiple Projects
Cross-pollination between projects is a reliable method to recharge our creativity.
75. We Never Shall Have Any More Time
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
76. Show Me Your Faith and I Will Show You My Work - Don't Neglect Your Technical Foundation
This transformation wouldn't be problematic if management positions were guaranteed for life. But as many of us have learned the hard way, they aren't.
77. Here Are 8 Life Hacking Lessons From John D. Rockefeller, The Richest Man Ever
$350 billion was the inflation-adjusted personal net worth of John D. Rockefeller. Was John D. a life hacker? Absolutely.
78. How to Train Your Brain: Rewiring For a Better Tomorrow
Perhaps we need to learn to become friends with our here and now to build better tomorrows.
79. Embrace the Wisdom of Japan: 10 Experiential Secrets to Living an Incredible Life in 2023
. By learning and implementing these experiential secrets from Japanese culture, you can take control of your life and make the most of every moment.
80. From Business Mindset to Creativity
How do you balance the relentless pursuit of optimization with the limitless nature of creativity?
81. Mental Clarity: Why It's the New Wealth in a World Designed to Confuse You
In a world where the average person makes 35,000 decisions per day, the quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.
82. Jack Pullen Shares 3 Critical Mistakes Holding You Back in Life
Jack Pullen is a young motocross rider specializing in both 65cc and 85cc categories.
83. 5 Signs You Won't Explode as a Musician and How to Turn it Around - with Eddie Pinero
Eddie Pinero, among other things, is an international speaker, YouTuber and founder of Your World Within. Eddie is considered one of the leading voices in the f
84. The Long Road Home: A Story of Loss, Learning, and Renaissance - PART 2
Freedom has long been humanity's most persistent pursuit, a flame that has illuminated civilizations, revolutions, and personal transformations.
85. Life Spoilers: Nobody Knows What They're Doing
In an uncertain and polarised world, some things are worth remembering.
86. How To Overcome Procrastination
Procrastination is a coping mechanism for negative emotions such as boredom, frustration, self-doubt, and anxiety.
87. The Desire to Exceed One’s Programme
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
88. The Long Road Home: A Story of Loss, Learning, and Renaissance - PART 4
As a third-generation Jewish man, I carry within me a profound understanding that turning the other cheek is not always the answer.
89. Dangers to Avoid for the Sincere Aspirant Towards Life
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. Chapter XII: Dangers to Avoid
90. Mastering the Meta-Skill of Learning
Few adults have been trained in the core skills and mindsets of effective learners. How do we learn to learn then?
91. 3 Mistakes I Made Learning Data Journalism (and How to Avoid Them)
Over the past decade, I’ve worked on and off as a journalist. It became clear to me early on that having some data skills might help me find interesting stories.
92. The Philosophy Of Ikigai: Dare To Live The Life Of Your Dreams
Is feeling alive important?
93. Apache APISIX: How My North America Tour Went
Once in a while, I write non-technical blog posts when I've something worth sharing. Today, I'd like to write about my North America "Tour"
94. Everything I Wished I Was Told At Twenty-One
If you're in your early twenties, start learning about what matters in the long run. In simple terms, they are your health, wealth, and relationships.
95. How to Turn “Impossible” Into Your Next Breakthrough
Inspired by Muhammad Ali’s philosophy, this piece shows how creators, founders, and game developers can turn rejection, failure, and doubt into momentum.
96. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Preface
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
97. Anti-Notion: How to Manage a U.S. Relocation, a Startup, and a Divorce from a Single Google Doc
How to Manage a U.S. Relocation, a Startup, and a Divorce from a Single Google Doc
98. How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 - Table of Links
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
99. The Loneliness of Entrepreneurship That Nobody Talks About
Entrepreneurship is a lot of things: sexy product launches, acquisitions, and funding. But it's also lonely as hell. Here's why, per my own experience.
100. The One Word That Turns Bad Luck Into Gold
Unlock the power of pronoia—the belief that the universe is on your side. Learn how to turn setbacks into stepping stones and reframe ‘bad days’ as opportunity
101. Programming and Garbage Collection - A Philosophy for Code and Life
By embracing and promoting the credo "I use it, I clean it, I break it, I fix it," we can contribute to building a more sustainable world.
102. How to Live Your Dream in a Crisis
These dreams go on when I close my eyes Every second of the night I live another life These dreams that sleep when it’s cold outside Every moment I’m awake the further I’m away
103. 3 Productivity Hacks for Balancing Career Advancement and Personal Growth
Discover 3 productivity hacks to balance career growth and personal goals, batch tasks, micro-habits, and weekly resets for success.
104. Cognitive Reappraisal or Using Reframing to Cope with Unpleasant Feelings
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