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On Living Below Your Potential

Moving On

Alex Payne2012216 points69 commentsCareer & Management details

On Leaving Academia

Even experts get it wrong

But You Did Not Persuade Me

New Programming Jargon

How to hack the beliefs that are holding you back

How did we come to believe saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for us?

The Value of Time

Miles Davis – blind listening test

Here’s to the Misfits

Alex MacCaw2012147 points72 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

The school I went to in England used to proudly display their famous alumni in black and white photos circling the theatre lobby. From John le Carré, to John Cleese, the list included notable actors, top politicians and accomplished actors. What the school didn't tell admiring visitors though, is

All Rockstars Went to Julliard

Read the masters

Federico Pereiro2012189 points53 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

Some time ago, I came across the Wikipedia article of Niels Henrik Abel , and something there burnt its way into my mind. Abel changed the face of mathematics, despite dying at 27. And here comes the thing – I give the mic to Wikipedia now:

How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly

Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust

Entreporn: Learning vs doing vs wasting time

The Crazy World of Code

Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)

Algernon's Law

Gwern Branwen2012151 points95 commentscited by 6Science & Space details

Why most supplements fail: IQ improvement skepticism, Yudkowsky & Bostrom’s heuristics, nootropics

Living outside America

Ryan Carson2012138 points207 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

It's a long life in the small Valley

Goodbye Facebook.

techsavvybutterfly2012227 points152 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Let’s get something straight: This is not a Facebook hate post. That being said, I’m running a little experiment of disabling my Facebook account. Why you ask? I first joined Facebook t…

WakeMate Update

Why Meditation Doesn't Directly Increase Happiness

Kenji Crosland's Blog: Thoughts about personal growth, meditation and mindfulness, the creative process, career development, and technology.

Malthusianisms

Scott Aaronson2012142 points41 commentscited by 5Society, Policy & Culture details

(See also: Umeshisms, Anthropicisms) Why, in real life, do we ever encounter hard instances of NP-complete problems? Because if it’s too easy to find a 10,000-mile TSP tour, we ask for a 9,0…

I work for The Internet now

Joey Hess2012185 points23 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

I have an interesting problem: How do I shoehorn "hired by The Internet for a full year to work on Free Software" into my resume?

The Joy of Dumping

These are 80's-era erasable programmable read-only memories, or EPROMs. They were an immensely popular way to store firmware for embedded systems when the

I introduced my 5yo and 2yo to startx and xmonad. They’re delighted.

Why I'm Doing It All Wrong

Discuss this post on Hacker News. Conventional wisdom for doing a startup as a young entrepreneur these days is something like the following: 1.Drop out of

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Dr. Drang (And now it's all this)2012154 points99 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

Another great post