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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,944 posts.
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Things I do to be consistently happy
Now that it’s almost two years since I first had the idea for Buffer , and with the year and a half before that which I worked on my previous startup, I’ve started to notice a few patterns amongst the ups and downs that come with building a startup.
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Why host and write a blog?
Jon Udell is blogging less . Gosh, so am I . There are loads of ways to talk to the world, new alternatives every day it seems. Is this thing, you know, over?
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Your Words are Wasted
It needs to be said again, perhaps this time more strongly. Your Blog is The ...
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Stop teaching calculating; Start teaching math
Conrad Wolfram's 2010 talk on reforming maths education to teach real-world computational methods using computers.
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Push, push, push. Expanding your comfort zone
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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How you eat corn on the cob predicts whether you're an analyst or algebraist
I like learning about odd connections between disparate things. This probably is the oddest example that I know. Broadly speaking, mathemat...
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Education is Our Generation's Big Problem. Let's Fix it.
Build practical, job-relevant skills with ready-made learning pathways and custom programs from Chegg Skills for employers, higher education, and government.
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An Unexpected Ass Kicking
One afternoon in Portland, I walked into World Cup & Tea to do some work. Instead, I had an encounter with the guy who invented the computer: Russell Kirsch
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Letter to John Carmack
The following is an email I sent to John Carmack of Id Software after I had watched his Quakecon 2012 Keynote Speech
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Fasting & Programming
m not sure how many of you know but for the past 10 days I have been fasting. Fasting you say? No, I am not protesting the demolition of a national park (not that I wouldn’t I love parks). For those of you not familiar with Ramadan it’s
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Productivity vs. Guilt and Self-Loathing
The guilt can be crushing. Everyone seems to be getting stuff done, except you. ...
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Bicycle skills
A while back I wrote about learning things just-in-case or just-in-time. Some things you learn in case you need them in the future, and some things you learn as needed. How do you decide whether something is worth learning ahead of time, or whether it is best to learn if and when you need it?
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Raspberry Pi Myths and Truths
First, let me go on the record as saying I'm a huge Raspberry Pi fan. If you ...
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The illusion of progress lights a fire
Psychologists have longed talked about ‘goal gradient’ which describes how we work harder to achieve a goal as we get closer to it. I just came across a fantastic study published in the…
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