You get self esteem by doing things that are worthy of esteem and then telling no one.

New PR in the gym? Tell no one.

Just made a million dollars? Tell no one.

Have an amazing sex life? Tell no one.

Promotion at work? Tell no one.

Lost 50lbs? Tell no one.

People might notice some of these things or changes you’ve made and that’s ok.

Don’t be weird about it. If they comment say thank you and keep going.

The reason you tell no one is so that you can switch your reference point from external to internal.

Let others see the results. Don’t announce them.

Anything you have that is enviable others will brag for you.

Congrats!

GM

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Heh. You have plenty of time. I'm in my 50's and while I've been programming since high school, I'm still learning. It's shifted a little bit from trying to learn the cool new thing because it's cool, to trying to learn the cool new thing because it's cool and so my brain doesn't shrivel up and make it hard to learn.

But anyone in their 30's can get to the point of making money coding unless they're just bad at it, or don't make the effort.

Yep. It's kinda Zen, you fight with the compiler and fight with the compiler , then eventually let go and the compiler starts working with you instead of against you.

I may be a little buzzed myself.

Problem is, my day job is in other languages, so I keep repeating that cycle.

I'm not sure I l'd say it's a fast moving target, but if you know code like most people know code, it takes something of a brain shift.

So I'd say buzzed is a better way to tackle rust than drunk.

I'm not sure I l'd say it's a fast moving target, but if you know code like most people know code, it takes something of a brain shift.

So I'd say buzzed is a better way to tackle rust than drunk.

I'm terrible at Rust, its a fast-moving target.

Never chase fast-moving targets while drunk.

I turn 52 today 🥳

As a gift to myself I want to share the following with you:

We are smack in the middle of a war of ideas, and I'll tell you why this is good.

The battle is between us - the people - and the political class.

And winning requires that we constantly learn new, actionable ideas.

However, this isn't just an imperative.

Once we throw ourselves into the battle, we develop a passion for it.

You may have experienced it yourself:

Meeting new people and sharing and developing new ideas together with them is wonderful.

You discover that when positive, creative people get together, 1 + 1 is never 2.

When we meet, physically or digitally or we just read each others' writings, we often identify ideas that the other person didn't have before, enabling us to create new knowledge and more understanding together.

And sometimes, when you and I combine our ideas, we develop things that the world hasn't seen or heard before.

It might not be a gigantic innovation, and normally it's just a very, very small thing.

But it's our joint appreciation of the process itself that is so immensely rewarding.

Because we realize that 1 + 1 in the social and intellectual domain more often than not is 3, 10, 1000 a million or more.

Magical is the only way to describe this process, which is reserved to us alone, the humankind.

When this happens, you also realize that there isn't any limit to what we can achieve with more knowledge and understanding.

Immersing me in this form of social interaction gives me a constant dopamin rush.

I'm addicted.

Don't you ever force me into rehab.

Have a nice day ❤️

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I learn new skills very fast. I learn different drawing skills and different mediums. Recently I started learning how to restore stone houses, off grid stuff, farm stuff... I don't know if I'll ever need it but hey! I'm a generalist in that sense. 🫣