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Ask HN: Of all the things you've done, what are you most proud of?

5 pointsjfarmer9 comments

HN is filled with lots of creative, ambitious people. So, of all the things you've done, what are you most proud of?

A painting you made? A company you founded? An adventure you had? Raising your kids?

Going from bailing hay during the summers in a town called Hope to New York City and starting a startup, all the while having learned on my own not to hate people.

Hope has a volunteer fire department, a church, and a post office... only... and is more than 97 percent caucasian.

New York City is, well, a melting pot of epic proportions.

Perhaps I shouldn't be proud. At the very least I'm humbled and encouraged that just because you're surrounded by something doesn't mean you are necessarily that something.

Word. I grew up in a village of 1,500 people. I left for Chicago as soon as I graduated high school and am not out in the SF Bay Area. Most of my classmates went to school nearby and returned home after they graduated college.

I'll go first. I'm most proud of Adonomics, which I founded in 2007: http://adonomics.com/

I won't lie, it's mostly because it's the most successful thing I've built. I also learned a lot of hard lessons from it, so it was valuable if painful.

What about you?

You get a quarter of a million uniques per month. Holy crap.

Uh, right, my turn . . .

Let me get back to you on that.

Recently... I'd have to say its passing my PhD qualifying exam :)

Congrats! What's your field?

thanks...Materials Science. you can read my about for what i'm researching.

becoming better at dealing with people.

1. patience

2. patience

3. patience

ohh.. i guess i forgot to mention "Patience" :D

Selflessly (this can be more difficult that it sounds) helping someone else, and then learning that what goes around comes around.

Corny, I know. Mod me down. But it's moments of genuine connection with another person that make me most proud, thrilled to be a human. I think we have to learn to empathize and to cooperate, if we are to survive as a species. And it makes me proud when I find a speck of that ability, in myself.

When it's a stranger I'll never see again, I have some confirmation that I don't expect something in return, at least not in the immediate sense.

When someone does the same for me, I feel I've seen the other side of the equation.

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