This is a friends start up idea/ project. Any constructive criticism is welcome!

Somewhat related but: has anyone heard of/ used the Brave browser?

I've been using it for a while now. I like it, but they're starting to get a little too pushy with their Brave Rewards program for my liking. But for now, it's great.

Batting aside "Brave Rewards" is a minuscule amount of work compared to the cognitive work that Brave reduces by blocking ads. I've been using Brave for ~6 months and I've only had to bat "Brave Rewards" aside ~4 times.

What is UA sniffing mean in this context? :)

User Agent sniffing. :)

I will have one browser window open, but in my task manager will have like 17 concurrent chrome processes running, slowing things down so much. I understand there are certain things running in the background but it is extremely hard to close out of certain tasks and stop plugins without terminating my entire browsing session.

Doing repetitive/ tasks is excruciating unless I am doing it for something I care about (i.e. a start up idea or project of my own). If I know I'm doing something for "the man" or something I don't have equity in it gets really bad.

So what is your definition? :)

I can think of two definitions:

1) a higher level of abstraction. For example, creating a class is programming. Creating a class factory (a class that creates classes) is meta programming.

2) self referential. The movie Adaption is meta, because it is about itself.

I would not call 1 metaprogramming. Meta means something like "outside of". Metaprogramming usually means higher order programming (programs that produce programs, such as source generation, lisp macros or templates).

Okay. It’s outside my area of expertise, so maybe I didn’t pick the best example. The internet seems to imply that there is a lot of debate as to what is meta programming.

This article is about the metagame, which is derived from this meaning. It just gets confusingly shortened back to meta in some contexts

I am so tired of generic Tech Crunch articles like this that add no new/ meaningful information.

Also, kind of depends on the goals of the start up. Not all want a big exit after several series of funding. Others are looking for some scaling, consistent cashflows, etc.

I would be curious as to any techniques you used to overcome this painful regular learning. I find certain 'plain' tasks (for lack of a better word) excruciating.

Read "Driven to distraction" https://www.amazon.com/Driven-Distraction-Revised-Recognizin..., you may resonate with some of these points (even if you don't experience a full-blown ADHD).

In my case, well, if something really needs to be regular, the only way to go is external pressure (external deadlines, people meeting at a given time with the goal to learn) and bringing some intensity (instead of 1h learning, a day focused on that).