Justified Dopamine
12/27/2017
Seeking dopamine from productive activities like work and exercise rather than quick hacks like social media, gaming, and sugar to align with long-term goals.
All blog posts tagged with 2017
Seeking dopamine from productive activities like work and exercise rather than quick hacks like social media, gaming, and sugar to align with long-term goals.
An exploration of how short-term dopamine triggers like social media and food act as distractions that harm long-term productivity, arguing for eliminating these distractions rather than relying on willpower to resist them.
Moving beyond the pursuit of happiness by understanding and mastering our impulses, creating stable habits to focus on bigger issues like the planet.
A detailed breakdown of a productive daily routine for solo entrepreneurs combining morning workouts, focused coding sessions, kitesurfing, and evening reflection while avoiding common pitfalls like analysis paralysis and social media distractions.
A brief reflection on levels of consciousness and the journey toward higher awareness and making a difference in the world.
A reflective look back at 2017 as a year of learning React Native and JavaScript, documenting the journey from ideas and failed projects to finally achieving productive flow and being ready to ship real products.
A critical analysis comparing Facebook's addictive nature to heroin, examining how social media algorithms designed for user retention may be turning people into zombies with shortened attention spans and reduced real-world value.
Four reasons why solo software entrepreneurs should share their startup journey openly from day one, including getting valuable feedback, mutual learning, social accountability, and maintaining happiness during long development cycles.
Finding alignment with your environment to achieve flow state, balancing mental energy from coding with physical energy from kitesurfing to build an MVP.
Setting up the Nomad Incubator in Tarifa, Spain - a community for software developers and entrepreneurs who share a passion for kitesurfing and coding.
Two months of adventure in Vietnam, from remote northern villages in Hà Giang to kitesurfing in Mui Ne, learning to go with the flow and live authentically.
Embracing an uncertain travel lifestyle and going with the flow instead of rigid planning, finding balance between work focus and nomadic freedom.
The relationship between possessions and freedom as a digital nomad - owning only what's necessary for work and happiness while traveling with 11 kilos.
An experiment in setting up a complete offline development environment for React Native to enable productive programming during multi-day mountain treks in Bulgaria, demonstrating that remote work doesn't require internet.
A speculative warning about the potential future where capitalism drives the creation of cyborgs who may become superior to humans in business, exploring both optimistic and pessimistic scenarios for human-machine integration.
A framework for working and studying while traveling, exploring the three phases of settling into a new location and how to maximize productivity through cultivating a habit of change.
How solo entrepreneurs can maximize productivity by suppressing urges for doubt and communication, creating focused environments and turning decisions into habits.
How Google encourages creativity through positive feedback but creates echo chambers that make us more self-determined yet less open-minded.
A philosophical metaphor comparing the evolution of bicycle design to the growth of human consciousness, illustrating how internal reflection and external action have changed over time from 1800 to 2200.
Why DevOps and product quality matter more than marketing - truly good products don't need advertisements, they market themselves.
A conceptual framework for personal growth through rapid iteration, creating a feedback loop that cycles through dreaming, planning, learning, creating, and sharing to accelerate learning and development.
Uninstalling WhatsApp to save 40 minutes daily and focus on deep, goal-oriented work by separating core activities from less important distractions.
How to organize a sustainable travel lifestyle while working 8 hours a day, including strategies for choosing accommodation, coworking spaces, and minimizing commute time.
Six key principles learned from coding that apply to business: structure, logic, efficiency, automation, independence, and transparency.
An interview with Lithuanian lifestyle entrepreneur Tomas Laurinavicius about his journey from self-taught designer to nomadic blogger, his mission to empower one million people, and tips for aspiring location-independent entrepreneurs.
A comprehensive guide to React Native covering setup, tooling, libraries, and why it's the future of cross-platform development for web, Android, and iOS.
A brief exploration of finding purpose through the Japanese concept of ikigai, the intersection of what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for.
Five compelling reasons why Groningen, Netherlands is an underrated destination for digital nomads, from affordable living and great coworking spaces to vibrant nightlife and a high concentration of talented students.
Essential apps and tools for nomadic entrepreneurs, from banking and transportation to communication, productivity, and learning platforms.
A comprehensive guide to the best coworking and flexworking spaces in Groningen, from Launch Café to The Big Building and social work cafés.
A framework for managing screen time and prioritizing tasks as an entrepreneur by blocking distracting websites during specific periods, applying the Pareto Principle to focus 80% of time on the most important work.
A critique of how notifications turn people into zombies who lose control over their attention, with statistics on smartphone usage and a recommendation to turn off all notifications to reclaim mental freedom.
A guide explaining the transition from WordPress to Ghost CMS and DigitalOcean hosting for faster website performance, highlighting the advantages of Node.js and modern JavaScript frameworks over traditional PHP-based systems.
A comprehensive comparison between WordPress and Ghost CMS from a blogger's perspective, arguing that Ghost's modern Node.js architecture makes it superior for serious writers and journalists despite requiring more technical knowledge.
The journey from WordPress frustrations to learning JavaScript, React Native, and Node.js to bring software ideas to life.
Four key reasons why writing and blogging benefits entrepreneurs: promoting openness, helping achieve goals through accountability, serving as efficient networking, and organizing thoughts effectively.
Practical strategies to diminish distractions as a digital nomad, including blocking tools, creating habits, and maintaining focus despite constant change.
An analysis of how nomadic entrepreneurs can reduce their carbon footprint through shared facilities, public transport, and mindful consumption, despite the high emissions from flights.
A startup MVP idea to combat global warming by creating an app that turns carbon footprint reduction into a status symbol, gamifying sustainable lifestyle choices through social recognition and financial incentives.
A short poetic reflection on true entrepreneurship inspired by Columbus, emphasizing the importance of taking risks and daring to do what others call stupidity to discover new truths.
A practical guide to decluttering and minimalism learned from traveling in Asia, outlining seven steps to simplify your living space and life by choosing a style, creating transparency, and focusing on experiences over possessions.
A prediction about the potential emergence of a distributed deep learning virus that could achieve human-level intelligence by utilizing multiple computers, exploring the implications and preventive measures needed to avoid an AI threat scenario.
A metaphorical exploration of how people process information differently, comparing them to sheep, rocks, and fish in the river of spoken language to illustrate effective versus ineffective communication patterns.
A critical examination of how commercial media prioritizes emotion-driven content over truth, using the metaphor of elephant shit to illustrate how news coverage often amplifies fear while ignoring more significant issues.
A philosophical exploration of how the internet paradoxically brings distant people together while driving physically close people apart, contributing to rising individualism and weaker community ties globally.
A philosophical reflection on why developing a habit of change is essential in our rapidly evolving world, using the metaphor of a rock in a river to illustrate how adaptability creates resilience and growth.
Sixteen practical methods to learn a new language through complete immersion using music, movies, apps, and social connections, making language acquisition fun and efficient without traditional classroom methods.
Balancing communication, learning, and getting things done by tracking and limiting distractions from social media and browsers to improve productivity.
Lessons from working intensively on a startup about the importance of maintaining a broader perspective as a solo entrepreneur, balancing four key areas: learning, creating, networking, and sharing.
A detailed trekking adventure diary through the Langtang region of Nepal, including a mountain bike journey, challenging off-trail hiking, sleeping outdoors in steep terrain, and crossing the Ganja La pass at high altitude.
An analysis of attention pollution caused by smartphones and how internet enables distractions across all time and space, arguing that we should focus only on information that drives action here and now.