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Like the car you want to buy. Suddenly you start seeing it everywhere. Hopefully that's what it is.

Loved everything except the controls. I must be the only one who found it impossible to navigate.

Thanks, I'll get one in the next upgrade.

This advice is solid gold. I declined many interviews when I was at the top of my game for silly-in-hindsight reasons such as I have just joined, I am happy here etc. Have always regretted it ever since.

Thanks! I have one for the time being and I wish you good luck with your work. Best

In early 40's with outdated skills, I am in the same boat except a physical disability. While development only roles have gone out of reach now, I have been able to find QA, documentation, support, generalist roles at a non-profit, academia, and an early stage startup in that order. Reached advanced interview stages with employers looking for outdated skills (Perl scripting) or in-office positions, so you might want to explore similar. LinkedIn, Fiverr never worked for me. My resume generated a lot more interest via HN's monthly threads. Good luck!

Yes, the intuition was key for me. So many of the problems could be solved with the simple box model.

Statistics by Freedman, Pisani and Purves. Don't know if I got better but loved the real world examples and cartoons. Does not have too many pre-requisites. Each section presents a tiny concept which is followed by plenty of exercises that have answers at the end. The furthest I got in a book in recent days, Math or not.

> I wonder if getting life goals done could be as simple as carving out large blocks of time where you aren't allowed to work on them.

Does 'them' in the end mean 'life goals'?

It is heartening to see folks concerned about being lightweight. I keep running out of space on my 32GB Debian 9 VM because every time I cargo build or npm install I feel like I am downloading all of the internet and generating more of it locally. And then docker build creates a few "diff-only" container images that need another 32GB of attached storage of their own.

> most small (by transaction volume) startups could get away with being on a managed platform like Heroku or Google App Engine.

BTW what's wrong with this? Honest question!

I think he also has a way of writing that makes him look like he doesn't know how to. Will look forward to that post. For now I'll just go back to the second or maybe third reading of his post.

> have long-term, sustainable arrangements with only one or two clients, and they don’t run ads or accept any new clients. This can be the holy grail!

Great writing and plenty of consulting advice in the article. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks! Your reply was helpful in giving the background although the background itself wasn't so helpful. Just to be sure, is the sole purpose of these articles to suggest why (and not how) to improve productivity? I think I am looking for the secret to 10x productivity which is still hidden somewhere inside those articles. Or is it?

As this seems to be about productivity from a respected person, I want to make sure I get the important ideas and I have tried. Is there a context in which this article must be read? Is it a commentary to another? Neither its introduction nor its conclusion seems to capture all of its ideas it is about. I know it is not meant to be readable but I'll appreciate any help.

Would you like to edit for formatting, just in case the searchers miss it.

And I outside the terminal!

Am I the only one who is having to work hard to understand the article?

Yes. Thanks.

Yes, this is another useful insight. Containers suddenly make a lot more sense to me now.

Ok, didn't realize that those installed by the OS were for the OS itself and not for the benefit of developers :p. Thanks and yes the xkcd drawing says it all.

Yes, this is the article I regretted notbookmarking. Thank You.

How many blog posts/tweets/days did you take to get there from the first one?

Yes, the only course I ever finished and finished wiser of the scores I must have enrolled in so far.

A lot more readable on the computer. I hope MIT Press doesn't complain.