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Wellbeing

How to live a happier, healthier, and more productive life.

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  • The Nutrition Source by Harvard
    • Food, drinks, salt and sodium, carbohydrates, sustainability
    • Body weight, workout, stress, sleep, healthy longevity, disease prevention
    • Additional resources: links to related programs and other similar sites
  • YouTube: Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | TED
    • One of the best talks about procrastination
    • Introduces the life calendar, which I think is a powerful visualization and it serves as a good reminder but not as a very effective tool to stop procrastination now
  • YouTube: The ONLY way to stop procrastinating | Mel Robbins
    • A good video to understand the source of procrastination
    • "You are not a procrastinator, you have a habit of procrastinating for stress relief"
    • Acknowledge the stress, interrupt the procrastination habit, and do 1 thing for 5 minutes
  • Why atomic habits may not be working for you (HN)
    • Some suggestions from atomic habits might not work sometimes
    • Because we feel like there are too many important tasks that doing nothing won't matter because there is so much backlog
    • The suggestion in the article: meditation for 20 minutes every day
  • Healthy Living Guide 2021/2022 | Harvard The Nutrition Source (PDF)
    • Mainly focus on food, workout and sleep, with some nice infographics
  • The Open Buddhist University — 16 courses and a library of articles and books
  • Screen Apena | NY Times
    • Checking email? You are probably not breathing.
    • The body is feeling stressed and alert. Set breath reminders, use larger screens, and allow the nervous system to relax
  • Forty years of programming (HN)
    • Ergonomics of mouse, keyboard and desk. Practice to stretch and meditate.
  • Stop postponing things by embracing the mess (HN)
    • Embrace the mess, reset and continue forward
    • Don't be precious about routines, sometimes accept there is no routine
    • Don't blow work out of proportion into something overwhelming, do in chunks
    • Don't expect focus to be perfect to get things done
    • Productivity is not binary, think of it as a spectrum
    • Any action will be better than no action
  • Mental health in software engineering (HN)
    • Understand that deadlines most of the time are arbitrary
    • Saying no to non-critical in off time, setting boundaries between work and life
    • Putting things in perspective. Ask: "Will this matter in two years?"
    • Learn about mental health and emotional intelligence, it's ok to be vulnerable
  • My experience using financial commitments to overcome akrasia
    • Forfeit - set an amount of money at stake for TODOs
    • Approaches: punishment and reward, counter-cyclical (no streak), promote better planning
  • Managing My Motivation, as a Solo Dev
    • Convert external sources to motivation, e.g. bot on someone subscribed
    • Leave tasks unfinished to make it easier to start
    • Feel the pain, address the pain, make painful task less painful
    • Write update every month, see progress
    • Do nothing two-step transition: Reddit to focused work is hard, Reddit to do nothing for a few minutes before focused work
  • Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety | Reuters Graphics (HN)
    • Relaxing nature, play at your own pace, typically constructive rather than destructive
    • Self care, lending a helping hand, talk to others
    • Increase mental health, life satisfaction, reduce stress, manage ADHD
  • YouTube: I hate my phone so I got rid of it | Eddy Burback
    • Sounds clickbait, but it's not
    • It is a really well documented story of not using a phone for 30 days
    • It is not all pros, there are cons. It is about changing the relationship with it
    • Stop the mindless consumption of information that we soon don't even remember
    • One provoking point is, to some degree, we all probably know what will be the outcome of getting less addicted to our phone, it's just we never get started

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