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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,197 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
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A Startup Reading List
Books are still vital. Ask the CEOs of the successful companies and you will find that they are well read. Ask the top people everywhere and they read to expose themselves to new ideas.
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EFF Pioneer Awards: Aaron Swartz, James Love, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce the distinguished winners of the 2013 Pioneer Awards: late digital rights activist Aaron Swartz, international access to knowledge advocate James Love, and Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras – the journalists behind the...
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Ways to make yourself happier
Looking for some low-lift ways to make yourself happier? Here's some of the best research that we've found on personal happiness.
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Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better than face-to-face
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New Course: The Design of Everyday Things
After reading The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, I remember thinking to myself, “I probably learned more from this book than I learned from a majority of classes I took in graduate school.” This wasn’t the best feeling in the face of my $60,000+ graduate school loans! My loans feel less painful though …
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Existential Depression in Gifted Children
This article by James Webb discusses existential depression among gifted young people. He examines what it is, how it may manifest in a gifted child, and
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How we perceive time: stop it slipping away by doing new things
Learn the science behind how we perceive time, how age affects our time perception & what we can do to make every second last just a little bit longer:
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Is Wine Bullshit?
How should we understand the robust findings that suggest that the price of wine is not only uncorrelated with how much people enjoy it, but that the different tastes we describe in wine may all be in our heads?
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Ambition can be poison
In the right dose, ambition works wonders. It inspires you to achieve more, to stretch yourself beyond the comfort zone, and provides the motivation to keep going when the going gets tough. Rightfully so, ambition is universally revered. But ambition also has a dark, addictive side that’s …
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Book discovery service: No Names. No Jackets
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Two i's
For a long time I’ve felt like the only thing worth working on is the next most important thing. Why spend time working on something that’s less important if there’s something more important that needs work? I’ve changed my mind on this. I think it’s always good to…
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What Happens to Donated Cars?
What is so lucrative about car donations?
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Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Georgia Tech
Learn online and advance your career with courses in programming, data science, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and more. Gain in-demand technical skills. Join today!
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How to Build a Building
SparkFun is building an 80,000 sq ft building with construction starting in May of 2013. It’s going to be awesome.
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Actually eat healthily for £1 per day
Last week, I stumbled across a BBC News article entitled How to eat healthily on £1 a day via a story on hacker news . Healthy eating on a budget is something I’m really interested in, but I was horribly disappointed by the article, because i) it didn’t show you how to eat healthily, and ii) it didn’t show you how to…
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“Well, He’s Not Going to Get Very Far”
Company culture is incredibly fragile. It's hard for founders/CEOs/execs to understand how little faith and trust people have in us when we stand up at a
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Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence
I’m going to talk today about what goes on in inside developers’ heads when they make estimates, why that’s so hard to fix, and how I personally figured out how to live and write software (for very happy business owners) even though my estimates are just as brutally unreliable as ever.
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The secrets of body language
What can I do to improve my body language with some simple, actionable tips? The latest research reveals the best secrets to improving your body language: