Life ​

I try to live my life enjoying each moment and moving towards the future I want.

You probably live only one life. So best make it count.

I love the lifestyle that Simon Sarris has. Built their own house in nature. Living a minimal life working on code and building things with hands. It's admirable.

I try to spend as much time with family and loved ones as I can. I live a life focused on positivity and happiness over complaining and glooming over the future. I try to work on things that give me energy instead of draining it away. Life is short. Let past go. No such thing as wasted time, just lessons learned.

The hardest part in staying happy I find is forgiving myself for mistakes I made, learning from every mistake/conversation/event I experience and making concrete plans for the future given what I know. If my plan doesn't workout, change the plan, not the goal.

I found journaling my thoughts fully and honestly help with overcoming any bad feelings I have or situations I am in. Jealousy. Being uncertain about my situation and future. I learned through experience that things change by taking decisive action often. Life is a game of chance and you should swing for as many chances as you can. Proper daily routine with habits helps provide a good nourishing ground from which new things can grow. Help remove fear and uncertainty as you know you have at least something stable to come back to, even if all your attempts fail.

For me personally the end goal and purpose is ultimate freedom. Doing what I love without being restricted. On the side, I do truly want to make life nicer for all.

Would love to own a home of my own one day.

Notes ​

• There is basically 4 ways people go about life: 1: hedonist: maximizes pleasure. 2: ascetic: maximizes inner peace. 3: nihilist: maximizes comfort. 4: creativist: makes things.
• We experience a very small portion of reality. We are limited to the information that our physical systems are able to process. Any other living thing experiences a different sliver of reality. I don't believe in an objective reality because everything is projecting it's own experience onto what it's experiencing.
• We live infinitely; the soul is the energy that cannot be destroyed and the physical body is merely a vesicle.
• Life is something & yet nothing at the same time. Once you transcend basic levels of consciousness & reach this ‘awakening’ to reality there’s nothing else to do but go ON with THIS reality. Humans tend to respond to this shift of thought drastically & humanely so we over think, & over complicate things that don't need further complication. Once you realize that everything that there is & everything that ever will be along with everything that ever was, IS YOU then there’s nothing else to do but to live this life fully. Alan Watts talks about this a lot & if you have any issues with learning this ‘awakening’ I recommend listening to various lectures & recordings by this man as I think he definitely got “it” & is one of several who explain it all so clearly.
• Treat people as if they are in a sensitive and malleable emotional state all the time. You have the power to uplift friends and strangers with every interaction, large or small.
• Life isn't meant to be easy. Everyone suffers in different ways. You don't deserve to be happy since the nature of reality is slow degradation of your life. Don't over estimate other people's happiness compared to your own. Life is hard for all of us. And let me tell you my friend, solitude is a blessing. It is an opportunity to discover more of yourself and your soul. And ultimately, you will always be alone whether you're in a crowded dance club or in the middle of the desert. Stop worrying about being alone. Fill your time with your passions and life will build itself around you so that you are at least slightly less miserable.
• Always feeling like you are in a race with other people is not a good way to live a life.
• The Mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
• The meaning of life is to give life meaning. You don't have to do anything, but it's actually quite hard to do nothing for long. The Universe keeps changing and flowing, and we're along for the ride. Your consciousness is absolutely absurd. Focus inward and on the present moment, be with your breath and body. The direction will present itself to you, unveiling bit by bit. We have many small decisions each day that add up to what we are, based on what is handed to us. Be kind, be the Light, and the rest will come to you.
• How to ruin your life: Make your permanent decisions based on temporary feelings.
• A lot of people make the mistake of trying to eradicate the mundane from their lives.
• The best thing young people can do early in their careers is establish strong boundaries with their work so that it doesn't consume their lives.
• It doesn't matter what's real, it matters what's functional. I don't have the luxury of pessimism any more. Love, compassion, optimism, and empathy are the only way to make this construction of reality tolerable. That said, I do not take shit any more. And I absolutely do not pass it on. I am sinking and shedding off the trauma that was done to me, and I will not allow it to propagate further into the future from me. That buck stops here. I had a shitty come up, but the remainder of my life is about way more than that. I came here to do fun stuff, specifically to build big fun stuff with other people, and to help them learn how to be happier while they do it. I now know what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it. It's a great feeling.
• I don't really give a shit about purpose as much as I am interested in just kind of exploring all the weird and funny places our felt experience can go. It's been very freeing.
• Life is just a thing that is happening to you, let it happen. Novelty occurs in things that are outside of our control, and it cannot happen if you are stuck in your own head imposing limits on yourself.
• When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create.
• Don’t spend time attacking people. Don’t spend your time on the people you hate. Instead, spend time on building your own products, spend time on yourself. Some people still don’t get this. Time is the most limited resource.
• Life is a game and self belief is the cheat code
• It took me like a year to condense a paragraph of “what is a nerd?” into “directed by curiosity”, and “what is friendship?” into “shared understanding”, and I have been quite seriously considering that my definition of ambition is in the ballpark of “cursed with giving a shit”.
• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
• Die with memories, not dreams.
• There Are No Adults. Everyone's making it up as they go along. Figure it out yourself, and do it.
• Every person has two lives; the second starts when they realizes they just have one. No time like the present to be the best version of yourself yet.
• The person you think you are only exists inside your own head. Everyone else sees their own version of "you". You are the sum of your actions and interactions with them. You have to actually BE the person you think you are.
• The ultimate freedom is living without fear.
• Be the man your dog thinks you are.
• We've now found all four "letters" of DNA in meteorites that struck the earth billions of years ago. These nucleobases appear to have formed in space. (They likely formed on earth also). The building blocks of life may be fairly abundant in the universe.
• Fake it until you make it. Everyone is scared. The hottest girl you know? Terrified and insecure, especially as she begins to age. That jacked football player in high school who never stopped laughing? Probably hiding some sort of abuse, or insecurity we knew nothing about. Most people don't think about you. At all. Even close friends probably don't think about you that often. When they do think about you it's much kinder than your internal monologue. When you make mistakes, public mistakes, it should never be a cause for embarrassment. Mistakes are a necessary part of your journey. No one starts off a master in their chosen craft. We all have to learn from scratch. Embrace your insecurities. It's okay to suck. It's okay to do it publicly, so long as you are working to improve. If you deliberately practice that skill, with the instruction of a mentor, you will quickly shoot past all the people who laughed at you.
• We judge others by their actions and we judge ourselves by our intentions.
• Its crazy how basically like four decisions you make it life matter and everything thing else is window dressing. Where you live, what you do, who you’re with.

Links ​

• 13 Lessons Learned
• What You'll Wish You'd Known
• Steve Jobs's philosophy (Comic)
• Alan Watts Explains What Awakening Means
• Handful of long-form posts on lifestyle
• Life Under The Ice - Exploratory tour through the microscopic world of Antarctica.
• Why Are You Alive – Life, Energy & ATP (2020)
• The Odds of Life and Intelligence (2020) (Twitter)
• The Chiral Puzzle of Life (2020) (HN)
• Life as Thermodynamic Evidence of Algorithmic Structure in Nature (2012) (HN)
• Ask HN: I implemented the life I designed: perfect but I feel lost. What now? (2020)
• ‘Electric mud’ teems with new, mysterious bacteria (2020) (HN)
• Life is Short (2016) (HN) (HN)
• On the Use of a Life (2020) (HN) (Lobsters)
• Life's Small-Molecule Problem (2020)
• How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time (2020) (HN)
• I turn 27 today, here's ~27 micro-essays on life (2020)
• Ask HN: What's Life All About? (2020)
• Tibor Gánti's ideas about the origins of life (2020) (HN)
• Tips for a Better Life (2020) (HN)
• What If You Could Do It All Over? (2020) (HN)
• What Is Life? (2019) (HN)
• Powerful Life Skills (2021)
• Great Essays of Life Advice
• Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time
• Jordan Peterson on Rules for Life, Psychedelics, The Bible, and Much More (2021)
• What Is Life? Its Vast Diversity Defies Easy Definition. (2021)
• What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches by Erwin Schrödinger (1944) (Reddit) (PDF)
• How to Build a Life - The Atlantic - Column about pointing yourself toward happiness.
• Ask HN: What small thing helped you appreciate life more? (2021)
• 99 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
• Breaking Bad: The Value of Human Life
• Synthetic living machines: A new window on life (2021) (HN)
• Awesome Artificial Life
• ALiEn - GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program. (Code) (HN)
• Feeling Stuck in Life // Life Advice (2021)
• Feeling stuck in your 20's (2021)
• Ask HN: Words of encouragement for someone lost in life? (2021)
• Emergence@ASU - Research origins of life.
• Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds (2021)
• Single-celled organism has evolved a natural mechanical computer (2021) (HN)
• Emergence of collective motor intelligence across millions of cells without the need for a nervous system
• Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien (2021) (HN)
• Alien Dreams: The long history of speculation about extraterrestrials (HN)
• Books about the meaning of life and why life is worth living (2021)
• Where/when/how do you feel the most at peace in your daily life? (2021)
• Ask HN: People who cashed out early and stopped working: What is your life like? (2021)
• Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? (2021)
• 80/20 changes that you've made in your life? Habits implemented that had huge impact. (2021)
• How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion | Derek Sivers (2021) (Notes) (Tweet)
• Scientists weighed all life on Earth. It’s mind-boggling. (2018)
• Things you probably don’t need in your life
• Modest (2021)
• What piece of advice have you received that you also find yourself regularly giving? (2021)
• This Weirdly Smart, Creeping Slime Is Redefining Our Understanding of Intelligence (2021) (Tweet)
• Where do you hope to see yourself in five years? Earnestly. (2021)
• Life as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics (1994)
• If money was no object, what would you do with your life?
• Ask HN: What is something important I should start doing in my 20s? (2021)
• You can't win
• Physical Models of Living Systems | Philip Nelson Book (2014) (Tweet)
• Computer-designed organisms (Article)
• The RNA World and the Origins of Life (HN)
• Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life? (2021)
• LIFE BEYOND 3: In Search of Giants. The hunt for intelligent alien life (2021)
• Ask HN: How do you accept your place in the world? (2021)
• How to know what you really want
• Keira Knightley on confidence, criticism and love: Life Lessons
• Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life (2021) (HN)
• 6 things kids know by heart that adults forgot
• Don't Waste the Good Days (HN)
• Lipids can modulate RNA activity, a possible clue to origin of life
• The Sun Was Dimmer When Earth Formed. How Did Life Emerge? (2022)
• What are some harsh realities of life that every man will have to wrestle with at some point? (2022)
• Life's 'secret' weapon. What's yours?
• What advice would you give your younger self? (2022)
• My favorite essays of life advice (2020)
• What's the best advice you've ever been given? (2022)
• Women over 30 - what’s one thing you now understand about life that you didn’t before? (2022)
• Advice in navigating late 20's and early 30's
• Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s? (2022)
• Most expensive mistake you've made in your career, and what did you learn from it?
• I decided that I must live my life on my terms
• Men, what are some hard to swallow pills?
• Ask HN: What do you think is all this? (this reality, existence, space-time, us) (2022)
• Ask HN: What do you do to recharge after a day of work? (2022)
• Micropia - Amsterdam museum
• What's a hard truth young men need to learn as soon as possible?
• Ask HN: A genie appears. What do you wish for? (2022)
• Origin of life theory involving RNA–protein hybrid gets new support (2022) (HN)
• Ask HN: I Am Lost in Life. How do I fix this? (2022)
• Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around (2022)
• What events have clearly split your life into before/after, ranked by how unique they are to you?
• Mitochondria and the Origin of Eukaryotes (2022) (HN)
• At a bare minimum, every man should at least know how to __
• Life is not short (HN)
• Ask HN: What lifestyle choices have led to improved cognitive function/memory? (2022)
• Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment? (2022)
• What are your non-screen / non-tech hobbies? (2022)
• A biochemist’s view of life’s origin reframes cancer and aging (2022) (HN)
• Ask HN: How can I come to peace with the years I wasted on pointless things? (2022)
• "Harsh truth" that was hard to hear at the time but you eventually had to accept (2022)
• Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? (2022)
• Ask HN: What kind of life do you dream about? (2022)
• Advice to maximize your life in 20's
• Ask HN: What's You Life's Work? (2022)
• Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s? (2022)
• life lessons from 2022
• Robin Williams' Speech | Good Will Hunting
• Four thousand weeks (HN)
• Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater (HN)
• Ask HN: What are we even chasing? (2023)
• The search for extraterrestrial life as we don’t know it (2023) (HN)
• What’s your best life look like?
• Ask HN: What is the best advice you got on any aspect of life? (2023)
• Ask HN: Has anyone here left the big city in pursue of a simpler life? (2023)
• Make a dream list