mrweiner

A friend gifted me A Short Hike after my cat died suddenly during covid, and it really did make me feel better. It’s a lovey game.

Aside from any diagnoses or assessing burnout, I’d suggest thinking about what is actually causing the lack of motivation when you sit down. Working on a business is different from coding, per se. You might lack motivation to work on your business specifically or to generally be figuring out business problems. All coding is not equal — are you coding bug fixes, new features, solutions architecture? These all kind of have different underlying requirements and you might find that some motivate you more than others. For me, bug fixes are necessary but draining. The days where I spend 8 hours putting out those fires absolutely suck. Doing the “create a puzzle and build the solution” stuff is way more exciting, fulfilling, and motivating for me.

Your business revenue can really help you out in this department. If it happens to be that you lack motivation for specific things, can you hire those out and focus on working on the things that actually give you joy and satisfaction?

The suggestion of therapy is a good one, but I think that figuring out the root causes of your lack of motivation is also a good first step. So when you sit down to work and can’t get going, ask yourself “what am I trying to do, why am I doing it, why don’t I want to, and would handing this off to somebody else give me motivation to move onto the next thing.”

Maybe the answer is to sell the business and find something else that’s exciting to work on, or just to give your mind the space to recover.

Best of luck!

The unused searches likely subsidize the people who use the full 300.

Thank you — the way you frame this is helpful.

Yeah I thought the same thing. LTV defined as value over the next 365 days…so…not LTV at all?

> My impression has been that AirBNB's customers are actually the hosts.

Fwiw, I listened to an interview with Brian a couple of years back where he said that, internally and strategically, they call hosts “partners” and guests “customers.” Which makes sense to me.

Which rights? The right to build a tall fence in your yard? To install electrical in a house however you please? Expose your genitals in public?

A grocery store is not a person. And besides that, laws and regulations exist specifically to restrict what people are able to do. Nobody is entirely sovereign. Sure, if you discover an island and you decide to live there, maybe you’re sovereign and can act however you want. But we live in a collective. That’s just the way it works.

> You waste too much.

You have no information about how much waste they produce.

> What other people do is not your business.

We cant comment that grocery stores throw out too much food because it’s not our business?

I wonder if the costs associated with this will go down over time. Either way, your first link says 7500 sites are affected, so that’s something like $135 billion if we go off of the Orange County cost? Sheesh. Or is that multiplication not how it works?

We always called them spliffs

Ah right, I was thinking of fungal-dominant soil and compost, but wasn’t thinking of fungal disease above ground.

Growing mushrooms is one of those things that’s been on my list forever, but I never get around to setting anything up. What system do you use for your mushrooms?

Ah right, I was just thinking of aiming to have fungal-dominant soil. I wasn’t even thinking of fungal disease above ground. Makes sense.

How are fungi causing you trouble? I associate fungi as being positive for plant growth.