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6d ago
My friends and acquaintances that work in tech have been getting let go left and right in the past year and a lot of them are pretty much mentally and physically checking out. One has been solo travelling for the past 6 months with no plans to stop, burning through his big tech severance package and savings. The other spent almost a year trying to get another job in tech but no luck at all, probably because of past experience being QA and frontend only. The other one had a very laid back 20 hour/week remote job and knew he was going to get eliminated eventually ever since ChatGPT came out few years back, but was too lazy to prepare for it and it finally happened a few months ago, now just sitting around, burning through savings, not sure what to do. One more is in accounting, and not fired yet, but was pretty much told it will happen in the next 6 months, so he's now desperately trying to come up with his own side hustle/business so he doesn't have to look for another job since he thinks accounting prospects will only get worse from here. Even my friend's brother, who has some senior position at Meta is totally burnt out and expecting to get fired at some point soon, now just trying to save up as much as possible.
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6d ago
I cook almost every day. Usually, I ingredient prep proteins for 2-3 days in advance and for carbs, I make them fresh everyday. Learn how to make the basics first. Carbs - potatoes, rice, pasta. Proteins - chicken and beef (start with ground beef, easier). Don't get fancy, just get some classic seasonings, can go for a store bought seasoning mix for starters. I recommend getting an air fryer. For oil, I prefer avocado, olive and butter. You can ask an AI to help you with steps and recipes, just tell it what ingredients and tools you got. You'll get a hang of it after just 1-2 weeks preparing all these, then you can expand your seasoning selection and figure out what you prefer. Red sauces are your friend, don't indulge into oil based sauces. I sometimes prepare more elaborate dishes, but for the most part it's very simple 4-5 ingredient meals.
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10d ago
The app is dead simple, so I imagine the worst that could happen is a bad review. I've tested it extensively, it should be fine.
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11d ago
I've had this stupid app idea for a while, and few weeks ago I finally decided to vibe code it. Took me about 8-ish days/16 hours to get it fully up and running. Getting it approved on the app store took another week, in the meantime I made a promotional site for it. This week it got it's first few paid users. Pretty incredible turn of events. I haven't looked at a single line of code. I'm now motivated to just full send any small idea I have since turn around time has been reduced from months/weeks to days.
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11d ago
2-3 times a day at least, sometimes 4. This is also an annoying problem, just having up to 30% of my day revolve around cooking/eating/shitting. I do eat a lot of fruits and drink a protein shake in the morning.
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11d ago
Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking too. I eat foods that are very voluminous, and average American probably gets large chunk of those calories from processed foods loaded with fats. One time I had some dubai chocolate mousse cake cup and that thing was third of my palm in size and was 500 calories, loaded with sugar and fats. My usual dinner carb of choice is 700gr of potatoes and that is also 500 calories.
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13d ago
I don't know why but this bulk has been unexpectedly difficult. Eating this much has been wrecking my sleep. Every single night, I go to bed feeling full and bloated. I can feel the contents of my stomach and it's uncomfortable to lay down on my back. I end up just laying there uncomfortable as fuck, not being able to fall asleep. I've tried eating my last meal at 6pm, but still, 6 hours later, I was bloated. I'm now trying to frontload at least 60% of my daily carbs consumption to the start of the day. It's difficult because if I overdo it, I end up being bloated at the gym and that's not great either. At least I'm finally gaining weight now and I'm seeing progress at the gym. Hopefully I can keep this up for at least a few more months.
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17d ago
You're most likely directionally correct, but it will probably take a decade+ to play out. The opportunity cost of locking in your capital in this trade is not worth it imo
Is there a reason you want to avoid this?
No specific reason, just trying to eat healthy whole foods as principle.
3 meals a day, 2 snacks could come out to 500 breakfast/150 yogurt/700 lunch/350 shake pre-gym/1000 dinner rice chicken avocado extravaganza. 7am/10am/12pm/4pm/7pm.
That's roughly my routine now, it's annoying. I go to the gym early midday, I try to not stuff my face before then, so breakfast is only 500-600 cals. Quick carb snack right before gym 100-200 cals. Then a quick carb snack right after gym 100-200 cals. Then late lunch at around 3-4pm 800-1000 cals. Then dinner 800-1000 cals at 6-7pm. And finally, if there's any leftover macros to hit, quick snack at 8:30pm latest. I pretty much get like 30-90 minutes in between food breaks, it's not ideal. Comparing it to when I was at 2k cals: medium breakfast before gym, 1 huge late lunch/early dinner, evening snack. That's it, all needs covered. Food was an afterthought, now it's a big part of my day.
messed up bulk big time and got fat(ter than I wanted)
I don't think I'll have that problem - I naturally don't eat enough if I don't count my calories unless I'm abusing uber eats.
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1mo ago
For sure, I'm definitely consuming too much protein but that's not the worst problem to have. I'm trying to overcompensate for having only around 60% come from perfect protein sources like chicken, the rest comes from incomplete slop. Like I said, the hard part has been carbs. Protein and fats are a solved problem, for now.
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1mo ago
I am aware, but it doesn't help building muscle either. I eat 165gr of protein, 360gr of carbs and 75 grams of fat daily. The hard part is hitting the carbs, not fat. I should've went with my macros in the original post rather than calories.
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1mo ago
2 pounds of good cheese is also 4-5 days worth of my target fat intake. I'm trying to gain muscle, not fat.
Been trying to slow bulk for the past 2 months. Thought I was doing alright, occasionally weighing myself here and there and seeing +2-3 lbs gained so far. Week ago finally decided to weigh myself on fully empty stomach - +3.2oz net gain. Upped my daily intake from 2.5k calories to 2.7k now and it's been hell. 2.5k was already tough, but manageable, and 2.7k is hell. I pretty much eat something every other hour from 11am til 8pm and still often fall 50-75 cals short. Don't know if I can keep this going without succumbing to mass gainers. I've already started eating more dirty - ice cream daily, welch's 'fruit' snacks daily, but it's still difficult. The times when I was cutting and only eating 2k calories a day were so much easier, I just had to have a light breakfast, 1 heavy meal and 1 snack and all my needs were taken care of, I miss it.
You should try Codex $100 subscription. Took me a long time to outgrow it, it was more than enough for a long time, I only decided to upgrade once I started working on 3 projects simultaneously. And it doesn't have a 5 hour limit anymore, it's just 1 week long limit and that's it
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1mo ago
One thing I asked myself is Bill Gates attractive? Honestly seems like a stupid question, but I was looking at his daughter Phoebe Gates who’s in the news for doing fraud. And she’s hot.
Is she hot or is she young, thin and rich? As I've gotten older, I'm 28, I've realized all a woman has to do to look good at 18-25 is to not be fat and know how to do her makeup. After 25, it slowly starts getting harder, youtful look is gone, aging genetics kick in, years of bad habits start to slowly add up.
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1mo ago
I have a friend that works Doordash/Uber eats in a big city as his main source of income. I don't know how much he makes, but it's enough to have a $1900/m apartment, a tesla on a loan, photography as a hobby, a non working girlfriend. He does it 4 times a week, full day morning to night shifts. Specifically targets wealthy high density areas, otherwise income pretty much halves due to less tips.
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1mo ago
For somebody who has that extreme level of risk aversion, what options are there that beat a HYSA? Browbeating her into equities isn't going to fly.
There's really not much if you want a hands off experience. If you live in a state with income tax, perhaps look into municipal bonds that offer tax exemption, that's about it.
I have experience with slowly convincing my father from only ever investing into real estate and never using a credit card to having around 25% of his networth in equities and putting everything through 2% credit card. It took a few years, but you just gotta be persistent. Combination of him seeing me do well with equities and seeing non stop SPX ATHs on the news did their thing over time. He started off with a $10k investment and once he saw the green numbers, it was easier to convince him to put in more. You really just gotta have her start and the green numbers will do the rest. Monkey brain loves seeing green number.
I don't use credit cards outside of the bare minimum necessary to keep them active.
I really don't understand this aversion of credit cards from some people. Do you believe you're so bad at controlling yourself that you will spend more than you can afford if you use a credit card?
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1mo ago
With condos specifically, look at HOA dues, reserves, info about special assessments (last time one was done, any plans to have one in the near future), and if HOA outsources management. I cannot stress this enough - HOA makes or breaks value of any condo. There's so many ways HOA could be mismanaged, from a few motivated boomers on the board strongarming to suppress monthly dues, which causes reserves to be insufficient a decade later, to hiring a 3rd party management company that charges you $80/hr any time you email HOA with a question or hires the most expensive person (because they get kickback) every time ANYTHING needs to be done. Once I've seen an owner have a huge legal battle with HOA - guess where the money comes from to pay those legal fees? Also look at renting rules, a lot of HOAs, especially the ones with a lot of boomers on the board, have rental caps (certain % of all units can be rented out at any time) - that affects the value significantly since a lot of people buy condos as an investment and it's a trash investment when you're beholden to HOA on whether you can rent out your own property.
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1mo ago
All you gotta do is drop the habit for a few months, you'll definitely be able to feel it. I used to have consistently poor sleep for years and never fully felt like it was affecting me. Now, I've finally found a routine that works for me and I can feel the difference 1 night of poor sleep makes. You just get used to feeling shit everyday, it becomes the new normal pretty quick.
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1mo ago
I definitely tasted the sugar but didn't connect 2 and 2 together because I was already set on thinking that it was sugar free version in the moment. Only noticed the label when I was throwing the bottles away. Don't drink soda enough to realize the only noticeable difference is bottle cap color.
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1mo ago
One evening this week I drank 2 16oz bottles of regular sprite thinking it was sugar free version. Woke up the next day feeling like a train ran me over. Incredible how much of an impact something so minor has, genuinely felt sluggish the whole day.
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1mo ago
As someone with social anxiety, weed gives me tachycardia and makes me extremely paranoid. I've tried different strengths and strains, the outcome is roughly the same more or less.
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2mo ago
I grant myself one cheat day a week.
be careful. You can easily undo weeks worth of progress by one cheat day, especially if you're too harsh with your diet throughout the week, which would make your cravings stronger. You can consume whatever you want, the most important thing is your caloric intake/macros. I ate whatever I wanted when I was on a caloric deficit for 4 months, the 'bad' food was frontloaded at the start of the day so that it was easier for me to keep track. For example, if I wanted a piece of cake, I would eat in the morning and the rest of the meals would be a bit lower fat than usual since cake is high in fat. A little bit of foresight goes a long way.
I also suggest a 45-60 minute walk 2-3 times a week, it would speed up your results by 20-30%, not to mention all the other health benefits.
I think you've got plenty of time, being a cog in a bureaucratic machine is probably one of the best ways to retain your job for as long as possible in the current environment.
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