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vishkk commented on How do the pros get someone to leave a cult? theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/n1b0m

simonw · a month ago

The best thing I have ever read on this subject is https://harpers.org/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-saves-you-fr... - it is a truly wild ride, profiling David Sullivan, a private investigator who specialized in helping people get their loved ones out of cults and was based in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years.

vishkk · a month ago

Thank you for sharing -- that was a great read!

vishkk commented on Structured Procrastination (1995) structuredprocrastination... · Posted by u/ipnon

vishkk · 3 months ago

Didn't have vocab for it, but seems like I have been doing something similar. For example, having a JIRA ticket on my board that I don't want to do will make me finish all the other tickets. I will procrastinate till the last minute -- kind of pitting one ticket against all others for myself to get the stuff done.

vishkk commented on Our efforts, in part, define us weakty.com/posts/efforts/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

vishkk · 3 months ago

Whatever it was — a lie, the truth, or, most likely, their mixture — that caused me to make such a decision, I am immensely grateful to it for what appears to have been my first free act. It was an instinctive act, a walkout. Reason had very little to do with it. I know that, because I've been walking out ever since, with increasing frequency. And not necessarily on account of boredom or of feeling a trap gaping; I've been walking out of perfect setups no less often than out of dreadful ones. However modest the place you happen to occupy, if it has the slightest mark of decency, you can be sure that someday somebody will walk in and claim it for himself or, what is worse, suggest that you share it. Then you either have to fight for that place or leave it. I happened to prefer the latter. Not at all because I couldn't fight, but rather out of sheer disgust with myself: managing to pick something that attracts others denotes a certain vulgarity in your choice. It doesn't matter at all that you came across the place first. It is even worse to get somewhere first, for those who follow will always have a stronger appetite than your partially satisfied one. - Joseph Brodsky

vishkk commented on Show HN: I made a Zero-config tool to visualize your code staying.fun/en... · Posted by u/lezhu

vishkk · 7 months ago

Quite neat. Reminds of this one that I used to use: https://pythontutor.com/visualize.html#mode=edit

vishkk commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) · Posted by u/david927

vishkk · 8 months ago

Surviving.

vishkk commented on The Origin of the Pork Taboo archaeology.org/issues/ma... · Posted by u/diodorus

vishkk · 9 months ago

To supplement, this is quite a good read: https://longreads.com/2015/10/14/i-would-rather-be-herods-pi...

vishkk commented on 20 Years of YC / HN vickiboykis.com/2025/03/1... · Posted by u/mooreds

vishkk · 9 months ago

I was checking when I created my account, it is March 21, 2014 -- hitting my 11-year anniversary in two days!

vishkk commented on The Dead Planet Theory arealsociety.substack.com... · Posted by u/sebg

vishkk · 10 months ago

I do the reading, but now I have a problem of finding the best reading too, and the whole rabbit hole is reading about what could be the best reading.

I have been actively working on it, and sticking to one thing and just starting, but i am a creature of habit and love hoarding and finding resources.

vishkk commented on Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line soranews24.com/2024/12/21... · Posted by u/edward

idlewords · 10 months ago

If you haven't been to Japan, it's worth lingering over these pictures and noticing a few things:

- The complete absence of vandalism

- How generally clean everything is

- Accessibility strip for blind people (bumpy yellow stripe in train stations and sidewalks)

- Nothing is broken or out of service

- How safe and welcoming the public transit system feels.

Japan is worth the journey if you ever want to step into a high-trust other dimension.

vishkk · 10 months ago

https://aeon.co/essays/the-life-changing-magic-of-japanese-c...