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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,748 posts.
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Tips for work-life balance
My reply crossed the threshold for a blog post, so I'm posting it here to be consistent with my own principles on academic blogging .
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I Don't Do That Job Anymore
Something has changed, permanently, in me. I’ve been trying to figure out how to express it, because the transformation has been so interesting, unexpected...
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The “I just got bought by a big company” survival guide
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Four Hours of Concentration
As I've blogged about before, and mentioned again in my previous post, the great mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré put in two hours of work in the morning and two in the evening. Apparently this is a common pattern. Cal Newport mentions this in his interview with Todd Henry. Now we also know that if
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College was my biggest mistake (2012)
When I turned 18, my parents expected me to go to college- it was the only option, the only way to be a successful adult. I’m a 2nd generation Italian. My mother and grandparents came over to America and bootstrapped themselves from nothing, so nee...
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How A Pull Request Rocked My World
This is a story about Pull Request
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Your Credentials Are Worthless Here
House cleaning, home cleaning, furniture assembly, TV mounting and other handyman services. Book in 60 seconds. Top-rated local professionals. Handy Happiness Guarantee.
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Steal These Freelance Business Ideas
Brian Casel's personal site, portfolio and blog. Brian Casel is a multi-time founder, software product designer and developer.
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What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
Yesterday my colleague mentioned that a script I wrote was getting a lot of attention on Twitter. This particular project was something I wrote a couple years ago to help me out with a workflow. I …
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What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
I moved to San Francisco 9 months ago from the East Coast bastion of Boston. Despite having experience living in a major US city, I found quite a few surprises coming here. Some have been great, w…
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Becoming A Boss
I was watching this Charlie Rose interview with Lena Dunham and I was struck by this line: it’s really intense to be thrust into a managerial position before my time I have seen this a lot in my business and its always your talent for making things that puts you in this spot. And one […]
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Aaron Swartz's Y Combinator Interview
Editorial note: This entry has more dialogue and so on than usual and I’m pretty uncertain about ordering and attribution, so don’t start changing your opinions of people on the basis of things I say they said.
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If I get hit by a truck...
This page was created by Aaron Swartz in 2003 detailing what, at the time, he would like to be performed in event of his decease. Aaron passed away in January 2013. This page was not updated between those dates, so it has now been updated to assist the general public.
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How To Fire A Co-Founder
The two biggest reasons startups fail is running out of money and founding team implosions. One Y Combinator founder I spoke with felt that about ~20% of startups in his batch blew up in the first 9-12 months after entering YC due to founder issues.