Comment by krmmalik | Hacker News Reader

Comment by krmmalik | Hacker News Reader

* Gym in the evening => Gym during the day (extended lunch break)

* One monitor => Two monitors as an extended desktop

* Never checking my finances => Using Zetabee cashflow to manage my finances

* Reading blogs only => Reading books (on anything) and audiobooks (in the car)

* Hot showers => Occasional Cold Water dips

* Cow's Milk => Goat's Milk

* Microsoft Outlook => Gmail

* Wasting time on the internet => Writing a journal or creating a list of things to do when im bored in advance

* Irregular work pattern => Aiming to achieve a minimum of 5hrs of focused productivity a day with 3min breaks every 60mins

* Friends that are negative or with no ambition => Limiting contact with them

* Trying to spend time with successful people or ambitious people => Setup my own Mastermind Group

* Green Tea => White Tea

* Manual version control => Mercurial using TortoiseHG as the GUI

* No programming skills => Started learning Javascript

* Relationship issues with colleagues and friends => "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie plus being more direct without being confrontational

* 20hrs of TV a week => Choosing 1 or 2 shows and following them only

* Poor quality of air in the house => Air purifier

* Back pains => Got a very simple chair, improved posture and regular back exercises

Cant think of anything else. Hope the list didnt bore any of you. Its fun to share.

Out of curiosity, why'd you change from Cow's Milk to Goat's Milk?

I temporarily switched to Almond Milk because it doesn't have lactose (which doesn't promote estrogen production), has the same amount of protein, more vitamins, and at the time it was way cheaper than organic whole cow's milk. The biggest drawback was that it tasted kinda gross, which I remedied with a bit of cinnamon, but now that it's fairly expensive I switched back to cow milk.

You could try soya milk, rice milk, or oat milk as well.

Personally I like soya milk, though only the unsweetened kind. For some reason most soya milks are sweetened and consequently taste like some kind of watery pudding.

(I gave up dairy a few years back when I discovered that I had a mild allergy to it.)

I'm based in the UK and based on my own personal experience, Almond milk isnt easy to get hold of and would probably be very expensive.

I read a book by Larry Cook in which he explained that cow's milk in the way it is distributed and processed now isnt as good for humans as it once used to be, and that goat's milk is more harmonious for the immune system. It doesnt taste as good as cow's milk but its not that bad either. I find cow's milk very watery now.

It only costs a little bit more than cow's milk and since taking it, my immune system has been better.

As for the other alternatives, the only one that i could find was Soy milk, but personally i feel it tastes worse than goat's milk and i dont know whether this is true or not, but someone told me Soy messes with your hormones, and so i've been rather paranoid since then about it.

Not boring in my book. The more the better - I use Zetabee cash flow for money management, too!

If you have any personal finance tips, i'd love to hear them ;-)

Haha I doubt I'm the best person to ask since I try to be frugal with most things... but then go and spend a ton of money on running, flying, and skydiving in bursts :-/

Would've thought the green tea is better for you.

From what i understand White Tea and Green Tea are from the same leaf, but processed differently

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