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Have you tried using expo? It makes development with react native much easier and does a bunch of stuff for you out of the box.

I'm a solo developer writing a fairly complex mobile application with watch integration and while some bits of the setup might be frustrating, however I would urge you to persist for more than a day if possible.

Indeed I had a huge amount of trouble porting my project from my previous mac to a new M1 but after the frustrating setup I just returned to writing JS and swift code and things have been perfectly fine.

indeed haha

Worked at a faang for several years. Some things I didint like:

- They make team members compete with each other

- creating false narratives about peoples career progress

- people don’t want to share key and useful information even with team members

- false promises of verbally giving you a project and taking it away

- invalidating impact of a project because you don’t fit the narrative for a promotion just yet

- people get credit for work they didn’t do etc

A good way to remember what you read is to become a domain expert and read everything about some particular domain you are interested in.

When you read in clusters around the same topic the same concepts will get reinforced over and over again.

A lot of new technology could potentially solve this problem.

There are certain types of roofs being installed called cool roofs that reflect heat and don’t absorb it that keeps the inside of building a little cooler.

Here is what helped me kick two major addictions in my life:

I smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day for 6 years straight. It started to take a huge hit on my health and I quit.

I smoked marijuana every night for 4 years then quit and have just smoked it occasionally.

I started doing vipassana several years ago, everyday a little bit of a good chemical balance accumulates in my brain and body to the point where a lot of cravings start to disappear and you feel good in your head and body even without drugs like caffeine.

I wouldn’t say I’ve beat all my cravings but they’re 90% better ..

Another thing you have to understand about the us are weak family ties.

If you are unemployed in another country you could easily stay with some family member - cousin, uncle etc

This is not the case in the U.S

You don’t think map reduce, tensorflow and the countless other systems that have been open sourced haven’t had huge impact outside of their original use cases at these companies?

The scale that these companies operate on requires huge innovations in software engineering and computer science. Think about all the distributed systems that have come out of places like Facebook and Google over the last 2 decades.

The real problem is that we don’t have good examples of leaders. A lot of the examples we look for in terms of whom to emulate comes from the pop culture view of corporate America and startups. At a previous company I worked at far too many people were trying to behave like Steve Jobs and give that as an excuse for being an asshole.

Ivy League schools already have pretty generous financial aid policies. Most students are not paying full tuition.

I’m currently doing this as well and for anyone else who is doing this you should continuously share your thoughts and progress on Twitter or your blog or YouTube or whatever. It’s easier to leave a track record and you’ll feel a lot better for doing it.

I understood religion better after practicing and studying meditation.

The backbone of all religions is based on the personal mystical experiences of individuals like Jesus, Mohammad, Budha and many others.

They experienced some kind of personal transformation and feeling of being connected with everything around them.

A lot of religious and spiritual practices are based on developing that feeling within yourself through various trainings.

Monks for example are deep in this territory and may practice meditation for hours and hours a day. When you do that you become very sensitive to changes within yourself and start to see how various stimuli might effect you. They might experience that being charitable and loving etc unlocks deep levels of joy and blissfusness but if they do the opposite they might face a decrease in such feelings etc

So it’s not so much you have to be charitable for some moral reason but more you have to be charitable if you want to experience certain feelings within yourself that are much more pleasant than what you may experience if you do the opposite.

It’s not very difficult to do financially if you don’t mind moving to a lower cost of living country. You can live pretty well for 20k USD in many parts of the world.

In sports training this is called super compensation. Usually you tax yourself for some period of training and then take a short break. Your body will recover to the initial level of fitness you had + you make some new gains. When your return to training your stronger/faster than before.