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nishparadox | 5 years ago | on: Quitting Twitter

This post resonated me so well...

It's been more than a year since I quit Twitter and the likes. I can't stress enough how good it feels to not have constant stream of mental hazard. I decided to rely on my whim to collect information using my own filter bubble (something I like to term as "information mindfulness"). I feel: as digital platforms are growing and evolving, with everyone inside the echo chambers [0], it's better to practice this "information mindfulness".

I am sure it depends on your own usecase for social media like Twitter; how you're going to sink in the platform. For me it didn't work. I hit my mental limit (finally after a long time).

[0] - At this stage, almost everything feels like an echo chamber.

nishparadox | 5 years ago | on: Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc

This is the first thing in my config, whenever I try to setup in a new system. Now "kj" and ":w" has become more like a muscle memory, even when I am just staring at the abyss...

nishparadox | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab

Hey, our startup recently moved to tara because we couldn't afford jira. Thanks for this tool. We've been using it for a month or two now and the task management seems to be doing fine. Not that we are that much managed, but still tara seems to be a good (and of course, free) alternative to get the things done.

nishparadox | 5 years ago | on: Are we losing our ability to remember?

Ditto.

This reminds me of write-up by Morgan Housel: long-term knowledge vs expiring knowledge[0]. To optimize that trade-off, I generally try to review, on a weekly basis, what I consume from the internet-verse. This has helped me in some ways. Not sure if it's gonna work or not for other people... Plus, moving the scale towards consuming long-forms is also helping me out. (I guess it depends on what type of bubble you are wrapping yourself into. For instance, only visiting specific sub-reddit and LW topics intentionally has been advantageous to me...)...

[0] - https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/expiring-vs-lt-knowle...

nishparadox | 5 years ago | on: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

Glad to see vimium been mentioned. I've been a fan of vimium for a long time as it fits perfectly with my setup of i3 + vim.

nishparadox | 5 years ago | on: A Need to Walk (2014)

This archive is gem. Thanks for sharing. I have been a long-time "walking" preferer. I'd say I walk to most of the place in the city I am living in...

nishparadox | 5 years ago | on: Take control over your feeds to regain mindfulness

I think in some ways we end up living in a self-made "bubble". Chances are we might get saturated with our own "belief templates" (for me this has been the case.). But then, no idea if it's statistically valid. There might even be a whole cognitive research on this particular topic.

nishparadox | 5 years ago | on: Make Writing a Habit

This looks good. Does it offer features similar to hemingwayapp? Like nuances in sentences and such?

nishparadox | 5 years ago | on: WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web

I had used this for some time in the past (on and off), periodically. One caveat I found was it was taking a huge toll on my browser (often, I felt the lags). Not sure if that's the problem now or not.

Eventually, I ended up not using it and started using other tools (specific tools for specific tasks).

nishparadox | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

https://www.nishanpantha.com.np/mind-cave/

I was going through depression and writing was the only way that helped me calm down. It really helped. It helped a lot. And whenever I feel like writing about certain topics (maybe philosophy, maybe life, maybe habits?), I jolt them down in my journal. Eventually, post them to my personal blog. Not sure if this is something anyone can find interesting to read about. There are poems, ranting, quotidian events.

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