Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen

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Strong rec samirageb · 2011-10 · on “I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.”

I never really post on HN (even though I should) and saw this post and had to respond. First, if you ARE VERY SERIOUS about suicide, please seek help as others have mentioned. I suspect you're simply very sad and venting, but please don't do anything rash. Next, please listen to/watch this: [this video] And then this: [LINK] Perspective is the first thing you lose when you're depressed and when you're under 25, it's so easy to do. Don't put so much pressure on yourself, you took some chances, it didn't work out, life is far from over. Let me say I envy you. That's right, ENVY. You've learned at 20, what I learned at 31. You are VERY ahead of the game, and have SOOO many options because you have y

Strong rec Markoff · 2026-03 · on “I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years”

The real question is why do you care? Why you worry today about something which may not happen in the future? My job most likely won't exist in ten years, do you think I'm worried? You might die in car accident, from heart attack or cancer in those ten years, some lost job is absolutely irrelevant compared to your health, there are and always will be jobs available, just adapt. We have saying in my country "There were, are and (always) will be the money", which basically means you should not worry too much about money, just find a way to get them when you need them. I strongly recommend LISTENING to this song - Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen [this video] I quote one of the most

Recommends aqw137 · 2018-11 · on “Ask HN: How to accept that life is unfair?”

"If I could offer you only one tip for the future, Sunscreen would be it" A lot of wisdom in a 5min song: [this video]

Cites braveheart1723 · 2012-12 · on “Ask HN: I’m not cut out to be a programmer. What are my alternatives?”

"Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man", think that's Socrates. Good luck, I remember doing a 3 months internship at Agilent Tech yeeaaaarrss ago where at the end I was like - "No way am i ever working in this Dilbert socially backwards environment" Not to say it was a bad place, just not for me. Since then, I've had 6 or 7 real jobs, in 4 or 5 different industries, travelled round the world, asked loads of questions, tried loads of things and still not satisfied. It's a tough one, everybody's different and very few people figure 'it' out, hence why you most advice is stupidly simple, short and unhelpful like 'be yourself', 'do what you love', etc... the list goes on. 'Wear suns

Cites ronilan · 2019-02 · on “Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?”

The obligatory and timeless “Wear Sunscreen” for those not familiar. Original text [LINK] And late 90s pop hit: [this video]

Cites jk7tarYZAQNpTQa · 2021-02 · on “The days are long but the decades are short (2015)”

Every time I read some list of advices on life I can't help but remember Mary Schmich's apocryphal speech "Wear Sunscreen" [1] (and made famous by Baz Luhrmann [2]), from way back when the Internet was young and wild. Even though I think "Wear sunscreen" is not a great advice. [1] [LINK] [2] [this video]

Cites mathisfun123 · 2023-08 · on “G. Polya, How to Solve It”

> Everyone who offers advice is just telling you their life story, dressed up as a simple directive. "Work harder" often means they wished they worked harder in some part of their life. Treat it like any other life story: learn the lessons they did, but don't let it become baggage that you irrationally follow. I don't know how old you are but bravo - it took me a very very very long time to realize this. The converse to this is to always be very transparent and very careful when giving novices advice - when junior PhD students ask me about some kind success I've had I always make sure to emphasize the ways in which I got lucky first and only after talk about how I applied myself. Edit: and i

Cites junto · 2023-11 · on “Life lessons from a 44 year old (2022)”

Learn to recognize kindness and do not mistake it for niceness. Kind people are always nice. Nice people aren’t always kind. Before entering into a relationship with someone else, make sure you understand and own your own traumas, have accepted yourself and are content with who you are. You cannot do that easily with the added complication of a relationship. It adds a dynamic that will trigger every single unrecognized negative personality trait you have, and that will trigger theirs. People move large distances to live somewhere else for love, work or to escape. Be careful you aren’t running away from yourself. Your children will grow up quicker than you think. Those moments at every step o