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Let's make 2024 the year of saying no to productivity culture

Changing The Channel • 8730 implied HN points • 04 Jan 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Rest
  1. Taking time to rest and relax is essential for our well-being, even if it goes against the pervasive productivity culture.
  2. Rest should not be tied to productivity but should be seen as a natural cycle to be honored.
  3. During challenging times, like January, it's okay to embrace the idea of taking a break and not succumb to the pressure of always being productive.
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And on the 10th week he rested

Inland Nobody • 480 implied HN points • 02 Mar 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Rest
  1. Rest is just as important for growth as doing the hard work. Taking a break can prevent burnout and help recharge creativity.
  2. The author has discovered a passion for writing and has many more essays planned. Writing has led to an increase in ideas, rather than decrease.
  3. The author is working on big projects and ideas that may take several months to come to fruition. Sometimes ideas need time to simmer and develop before being shared.

Quiet Life, R.I.P.

Restoring Truth • 78 implied HN points • 15 Apr 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Rest
  1. Modern life is filled with noise and busyness, making it hard to find peace and rest.
  2. Balancing hectic schedules, responsibilities, and constant distractions can lead to feelings of restlessness and chaos.
  3. Finding moments of quiet solitude and tuning into a calmer voice can help in managing the chaos and regaining sanity.

Fixing burnouts — 7 types of rest

10x your mind • 59 implied HN points • 22 Jun 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Rest
  1. There are seven different types of rest that humans need: physical, mental, sensory, creative, emotional, social, and spiritual.
  2. Recognize the signs of each type of rest needed, like feeling physically exhausted for physical rest or lacking new ideas for creative rest, and find appropriate remedies.
  3. Prioritize taking care of yourself by understanding and fulfilling the various types of rest that you require for a more rested and revitalized self.

Brief Thoughts On Sickness

Autoscriptorium • 39 implied HN points • 20 Apr 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Rest
  1. Sickness can impact our ability to think clearly and act decisively, affecting the healing process.
  2. The ability to change one's physicality through willpower can lead to a sense of power and control over one's body.
  3. Being sick can force us to let go of control, embrace rest, and prioritize self-care over productivity.

Rest is resistance

lifeboat • 19 implied HN points • 12 Jul 23
⛪ Faith & Spirituality Rest
  1. Taking breaks is important for sustainability, even if you're self-employed.
  2. Resting is a radical act of liberation that challenges the 'grind culture' we are used to.
  3. Slowing down and embracing rest as a human right is crucial for personal, spiritual, and political well-being.

LL #38 | Peak Performance is now the Leadership Lab

The Leadership Lab • 19 implied HN points • 25 Sep 22
🏥 Health & Wellness Rest
  1. The Leadership Lab is a place for intentional experimentation and personal growth, emphasizing engagement and action with the ideas shared.
  2. Acceptance of things beyond our control is key to navigating life's ebbs and flows, fostering resilience and reducing unnecessary suffering.
  3. Balancing intense effort with sacred rest is crucial for peak performance, advocating for oscillation and avoiding a constant mid-level effort.

APIs with bounded contexts

microapis.io • 3 HN points • 06 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Rest
  1. Aligning APIs with the business strategy and ensuring usability are key for API success.
  2. Domain-driven design helps in creating successful APIs by modeling processes and flows that align with the business domain.
  3. Despite challenges, applying domain-driven design to APIs can be achieved by using heuristics to model operations and flows.

In the soup

The Next Chapter • 8 implied HN points • 19 Oct 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Rest
  1. The author reflects on feeling insecure and ungrounded at the start of their sabbatical journey
  2. The author learns the importance of self-definition and self-worth independent of external validation
  3. The author shares strategies for navigating personal growth and self-discovery during their sabbatical

Micromoments of stillness

The Next Chapter • 4 implied HN points • 09 Jul 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Rest
  1. Rest is not just about physical recovery, but also about savoring accomplishments and progress.
  2. Finding rest can involve small intentional moments of stillness throughout the day.
  3. Reframing rest as 'micromoments of stillness' rather than big, planned events can be more meaningful.

Leave the REST to GraphQL

Tribal Knowledge • 0 implied HN points • 05 May 22
🕹 Technology Rest
  1. GraphQL provides an intuitive and flexible way to describe data requirements and interactions for client applications, simplifying development by having a defined schema and aiding with debugging.
  2. While REST is a standard widely taught in software engineering, GraphQL offers a more elegant approach by simplifying data contracts, debugging, and allowing for a more complex backend and simpler frontend development.
  3. Using GraphQL can help divide tasks among team members more effectively, with senior engineers focusing on backend problem-solving and junior engineers concentrating on frontend tasks like data mapping, ultimately making APIs more discoverable and user-friendly.

Redefine “Self-Care”

Are You Okay? • 0 implied HN points • 20 Jun 22
🏥 Health & Wellness Rest
  1. Self-care should focus on pondering and meeting basic needs, beyond just avoiding COVID.
  2. Prioritize 'STEM' for well-being: Sleep, Talk, Eat, Move. These are essential for managing everyday stress.
  3. Health isn't about fancy treatments, but about practical actions like restful sleep, meaningful connections, and nutritious meals.

Sort Through the Facts, and Take Only What you Need

Are You Okay? • 0 implied HN points • 04 Mar 21
🏥 Health & Wellness Rest
  1. Filter through news and focus on facts that are actionable, like personal behaviors and vaccinations.
  2. Navigating the pandemic's uncertainties requires gradual adjustments and nuanced approach, not sudden changes.
  3. Positive outlook on vaccines and science, encourage self-care, trust in experts, and the power of community to combat COVID-19.

Get a Fresh Perspective

Are You Okay? • 0 implied HN points • 15 Nov 20
🏥 Health & Wellness Rest
  1. Taking time to rest and relax is essential for maintaining sanity and mental health.
  2. Collaborating and learning from others, especially in a professional setting, can provide fresh perspectives and valuable insights.
  3. Despite not accomplishing anything special, simple activities like sleeping in and lounging can rejuvenate and refresh the mind.

TWH#S8: What I Read This Week

The Hagakure • 0 implied HN points • 26 Mar 23
🎭️ Culture Rest
  1. Rest and recovery are essential for smart work, not just a reward for hard work.
  2. Surrounding yourself with the right people is crucial due to social and emotional contagion.
  3. Organizations should balance weak and strong ties for effective handling of complexity and uncertainty.