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Don’t bite the shit sandwich
The “startup” world is bursting with bullshit (or, if you prefer, ‘unicorn dust’). There are bullshit peddlers on every blog-corner. They don’t want
Start In The Middle
Middle in the start you shall.
Jef Raskin on "Intuitive Interfaces"
One of the most common terms of praise for an interface is to say that it is "intuitive" (the word should have been "intuitable" but we will bow to convention). Yet the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) literature rarely mentions the word, and for good reason. This note attempts to clarify the meaning of "intuitive"…
Life is Beautiful
I haven’t slept. For much of last night, my daughter Ava cried out in her sleep with nightmares. Eventually her cries would wake us both. Instead of going back to sleep, Ava would chat with me about her day. I wish I could remember all the amazing things she told me at 2:00 AM.
Thursday = Thor's day
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.
Psychological manipulation - what I learned trying to save money on a sandwich
The official blog of Inkling Markets. We make prediction market software for organizations to improve their forecasting and make better decisions.
How I Monetized My Passion
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Did your boss thank you for coding yourself to death?
Why programmers shouldn't work themselves into the ground for the company, told through the story of a brilliant developer called John.
Why I went without hot water for a year
Josh founded his first tech company at 23, creating real-time vehicle tracking on the web — later acquired by Ford Motor Co. He spent a decade traveling the globe, studying consciousness and scaling local food systems .
Zero Zero
I've been thinking about something that we always did junior year when I was on my high school soccer team. When we'd score a goal, we reali...
Why I Canceled My Facebook Account
I canceled my Facebook account because it was lowering my capacity for independent action. I joined Facebook under certain conceptions that it was a somewhat private place. It used to have a clean …
Data visualization - 9 Years of Sleep
For the last ten years or so, I used to turn on my PC when I came home from school or work and shut it down again right before I went to bed. So most of the time when my PC is running, I'm awake. I've also been idling in IRC for as long as I had Internet – when my PC is running, so is my IRC client.