Ask HN: Did HN bring a change in your life?
I wonder how did HN bring a change in your life. Did you find inspiration, valuable lessons from someone's failures, interesting insights and information, etc from the HN community?
After leaving Microsoft, I also found my current job through HN, in a "Who's Hiring" thread. It's a super flexible job that allows me to work remotely and have enough time to focus on my game development career on the side.
These things don't even take into account my enjoyment of the informed, high-quality comments and overall high level of discourse I find on HN, as well as all of the awesome, informative articles people post on here.
I wish more of the internet was like HN. I owe this site so much. Thank you, HN!
For example, I shared an early version of TechLoaf on here last year (https://TechLoaf.io — think: The Onion meets TechCrunch) and a) received super precise feedback on our landing page and newsletter format and b) recruited a few writers who now actively contribute each week.
I’m very grateful for this wonderful corner of the internet.
- healthy body is the foundation of healthy mind. I started swimming twice a week and it changed me in good way.
- mindful meditation. It works for me.
- dealing with burnout. I was unfortunate to have a chance to use HN's advice. It worked for me.
- Toastmasters as the way to improve one's communications skills. It works and there many other benefits. You meet many interesting people for example.
- the idea of lifestyle business and, for bootstraping one person "team", creating rather products to sell than SAAS. I'm currently traveling along this route.
And a lot more (golang, TDD, CQRS, Elixir, Phoenix Framework,...).