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Life, Learning & Writing
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A Philosopher Every Programmer Should Know: Susanne K. Langer
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I've Written a Book
Executive summary: I've written a book. If you like this site, you'll love the book. You can buy it printed on paper or as a DRM-free ebook on the Pragmatic Programmers website .
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Making a Ponyo boat
If you've seen the film Ponyo (or if you grew up in Asia) you may have seen a sort of toy boat powered by a very simple steam engine. This...
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What is magic?
I'm cofounder of a literary studio called Plympton , which focuses on innovation and publishing and our latest project is Writing Atlas . I wrote a book and produce films. I co-founded WikiPortraits and WikiHaus, where we get high quality photos on Wikipedia and host Wiki events. I work where technology x journalism…
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Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End
I am not angry, this is just the end of a love story, and i want to say goodbye.
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Kind of Screwed
TL;DR version: Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my losses. This ordeal was very nerve-wracking for me and my family, and I’ve had trouble writing […]
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You don't understand something until you think it's obvious.
I learned a valuable life lesson in the course of completing my MSci degree. It's not so much about mathematics as it is about understandin...
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Fish don't know they're in water
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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A Look Inside the Process of One of the World’s Most Efficient Studiers
Scott Young’s Graduation Gift to Study Hacks I have to give credit to Scott Young: it was talking blogs with him back in 2007 that ... Read more
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How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper
There’s a provincial general election here in Prince Edward Island on October 3 this fall, and over the past month here at Reinvented we’ve been ramping up the technology side of the Elections PEI operation as planning and preparation for the election is now in full swing.
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Taking Cold Showers
This post is about why you might want to start taking cold showers. I’ve been doing it for over a month now and I really like it. The seed was planted in my mind afterreading an article about it [http://gettingstronger.org/2010/03/cold-showers/]on a blog
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I moved to Singapore
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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You don't get shit you don't ask for
When we were raising money for FlightCaster in Fall 2009, we met with dozens of investors, both VCs and Angels. Most of them turned us down. The investors that did put money into FlightCaster provided us a ton of value, both in terms of their capital and all the support/guidance/networking.
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