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Scott Adams: The "Less" Feature

Scott Adams2010138 points45 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

In Praise of Quitting Your Job, or The New Work Ethic.

Rich Programmer Food

Steve Yegge2010217 points175 commentscited by 27Career & Management details

How to get a Pilot's License in (just about) a week

25 Best Hangman Words

Wolfram Blog2010114 points27 commentsMath & Algorithms details

Mathematica analysis of picking the optimal words to win the Hangman spelling game. Code and link to Wolfram Demonstration are included.

"My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means."

Be happier: Rent Everything

George Saines2010127 points135 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

I'm a nearly broke developer/entrepreneur and felt like venting

Don't Be Ugly By Accident

Teach Like You're the Student

Steve Blank201094 points17 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

“I never have let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain Every time I see my graduate students try to teach for the first time, it’s usually so painful I bite my lip. Then I …

The Best Email I've Ever Received

How to Take a Walk

Ribbonfarm2010273 points185 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

It was cool and mildly breezy around 8 PM today. So I went for a walk, and I noticed something. Though I passed a couple of hundred people, nobody else was…

Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule: Richard Hamming and the Messy Art of Becoming Great

Cal Newport201092 points69 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

What Makes Great Scientists Great? In March of 1986, an overflow audience of over 200 researchers and staff members from Bell Laboratories piled into the ... Read more

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

There's a bit more below, but I also wrote a follow-up 5 years after the illustrated guide which may be of interest -- HOWTO: Get tenure .

The Startup Diet: How I Lost 35 Pounds While Working Overtime

Paul Stamatiou2010135 points143 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

I recently decided to change the way I was taking care of my body. It should be no surprise that I am always on my computer – at least 12-15 hours per day. I am 5' 9" but used to weigh an undesirable 170-175 pounds. Most of this was brought on during my first years of college. I entered college as a

Last Psychiatrist rebuttal to "why parents hate parenting"

Common Programmer Health Problems

Minimalism Isn’t the Alpha and Omega of Design

Choosing New York over San Francisco

Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech

What is LaTeX and Why You Should Care

Slava Akhmechet2010135 points77 commentsTools & Productivity details

An article about why academic papers distributed in PostScript, what is LaTeX, and why you should care.

How making money changed my perspective on startup ideas

Paras Chopra201085 points21 commentsStartups details

College Grads, Here’s How to Become Millionaires

Mint Blog201088 points92 commentsTech Industry & Business details

You should blog even if you have no readers

Spencer Fry wrote a great post on "Why entrepreneurs should write." I would further add ...

Notetaking as a way to stay smart

If You’re So Damn Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?

The CRAPL: An academic-strength open source license

Generally, academic software is stapled together on a tight deadline; an expert user has to coerce it into running; and it's not pretty code. Academic code is about "proof of concept." These rough edges make academics reluctant to release their software. But, that doesn't mean they shouldn't.

How to Focus

You Can’t Take It With You

Steve Blank2010222 points37 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

If you’ve had a great career what happens to all your knowledge and experience when you retire?Great Suit My wife and I had dinner last night with a friend of hers from high school. Tom, her husban…

Are you suffering from burn-out?

Jacques Mattheij2010151 points51 commentscited by 4Life, Learning & Writing details