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If there is one thing I learned is that what makes you being pervecived as stupid is the way you are asking the qestion, rather than the thing you dont know.

For example for some bizzare reason I am percieved as strange bu very inteligent and yet when I ask the questions they are rarely percieved stupid.

Why I am not going out of my own way to sound smart or anything I display depth of knowledge at certain areas and the way I'm asking questions is in an honest inquisitive matter of fact way.

The other side of this is the way one perceives the reactions, for example they might not reacted as if one was stupid as much as they are confused at disparity between the question asked and the knowledge one has showcased before that question.

I've been using gtd + trello for over a year now in on off basis, and for me I found the following benefits

- closed loops for stuff that would otherwise occupy my thoughts while programming

- understanding and aplication of what makes me either not start or think about something (project) constantly

- ability to drop and return to it and just continue

- differentiation between what is a must do and nice to do

- separating emotional context for a protocol one ( usefull for things that upset me but must be dealt with)

Bad things

- overusing the system as it is very effective and placing way of the mark projects that you wish to do and that drag on to irrelevance, especially the inbox filled with thoughts rather than something useful.

- it requires at least weekly maintenance, especially when the structure is new to the user

- lists can get convoluted , amended by understanding that you can and should add remove entire lists or even make lists context based.

Bad parts can be overcame but it requires a deeper understanding of gtd and knowing that your gtd flow is ment to be upgraded, reworked and much less structural and rigid in some places. I am currently at my v2 for gtd and it is much easier to maintain while providing me with pretty much same benefits, there is going to be v3.

Overall it helped me immensely to clear my ram when working and for that at least it is worth it

Before I though that programing in itself was not as hard to learn, that is until I started to tutor a person that has no technical background what so ever other that playing video games.

It was my undrrstanding at a time that the mindset one needed to play games, especialy those involving puzles and problem solving would have a somewhat natural attitude towards programmming.

And it is partially correct if you are a good tutor enough to make relations of one way of problem solving into what can be done in programing, which I found out I aint.

Where I was humbled in the attempt is when I was asked questions that I took for granted simply because of the years of programming, many things where just given, and while knowing then I had a very bad time properly expalining them to a absolute beginner.

This is what in my oppinion makes programming hard or easy, after that it is just layers of layers of that.

For me, now that I recall it, getters and setters in Java made no sense so much that I only got them after maybe a year, though I dont even know why didn't they make sense at the time.

I thing that a mentor has a lot of impact in how much programming is hard, be it a person, a course, or a book.

For me once I moved to zsh and added `oh my zsh` it really became so much easier.

I like the autocomplete, the fact that when cd-ing a known path you can just type the first leter of each directory with slashes, showing the git branch in working dir.

Its the little things.

That was a good one thanks :)

With the risk of sounding esoteric or self-help I have to admit that both cold showers and wim hoff breathing method have at least made me less stressed out and more resistant to cold and sudden change of temperature.

It started out of curiosity while in my meditation conscious living mood about a year ago, but ended up something I exercise daily since it just feels good to me.

Most notably I noticed that my legs where no more chilly or sweaty with no reason and that my hands are not as cold all the time they where before. As for breathing I noticed that I am much more relaxed on the days I do it then I don't but can't attest to weather this is just some placebo effect or not.

And I notice that I feel much less fly like effects than previous years or if they appear they last no longer than half a day.

It might be lack of circulation. In past I had problems with my feet being always sweaty for some reason.

Later down the line I started doing cold showers and also a a avoiding gluten and dairy for periods of time ( a month of two at a time). This all seems to have fixed the problem it seems.

Well it depends on the media but let's say it is a blog. First just write about something, anything that catches your fancy. Leave it for a day or two at least then reread it and if you seem that it is something you wish to publish pick a random blog site or medium and create a username not attached to you and just post it there, and if the several blog posts after that seem to be under the similar subject or idea your blog has got an overarching topic or theme.

Then just continue to post there when you want to say something and over time you will get wuote a collection and probably a few readers as well.

Now this is how it is done from a standpoint of a person that just wants to write and doesn't want to profit in any way from it rather than to have a place where they can manifest their thoughts, so if you are in it for something more I don't have any useful advice.

One of my first post, in retrospect, where so shallow and badly written but I am fond of them because it I'd because of that person that I am able to now much better express my thoughts, so don't fall in the trap of perfection, it is that imperfection that makes it unique. All perfection is the same, as such it has no room to grow, and that kinda misses the point for me.

Good luck, be honest yo yourself about your creation but dont be judgmental, see it as a learning process that will just happen to last your whole life :)

I "solve" that by preferring to post without connecting the posts to my identity. I noticed that this has allowed me to still get my voice heard, without tying my ego to it or risk problems or degradation of my pulblic personae.

Be it pure cowardice or something else even when I was much younger I understood that having something published under my name can bring me harm. In today's climate this is even more so even though my thoughts are far from the current topics.

As mentioned above it also helps to divorce it from your ego as much as it can be done, since as all the blame goes so does all the praise, and it allows you to both satisfy your need to vocalize your thoughts or ideas but also to see it just as one dimension of yourself that many readers ( including myself) fail go do when they generate opinion about the totality just by the excerpt or your thought in that time.

Also letting something sit for a while will help you immensely in seeing if this writing represents the you in the spur of the moment or is it something of more importance, maybe even bigger than you.

At the end of the day from me is more important that an idea or thought is made manifest than that there was a specific person that created that thought. Once "on the paper" for me the ownership of that is no longer mine its its own, as much as that can make sense.

Haha good article. I always smell things before I eat them by default. One interesting thing I noticed is how much smell boosts taste. Some time ago I lost my sense of smell completely and I distinctly remember how the food tastes boring and plain with just texture and sweet and salt making any difference. Smell adds so much to it that I was honestly surprised.