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In Defense of Bad Ideas
This past Friday was my last day working in Mojave.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,746 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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The lumbar puncture that changed my life
After a lumbar puncture caused a chronic spinal CSF leak, my life of travel and food changed overnight. (Now with a 7 year update)
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A Few of the Birds I Love
The barn swallow’s flight, the mocking bird’s song, the cardinal’s color, and the hummingbird’s character.
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The Clock
(If you fancy a puzzle, go look at The Clock first, try to figure out how it works, then come back here for the explanation.) Inspired b...
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A cute proof that makes e natural
Po-Shen Loh explains why Euler's number e is natural using only precalculus: one exponential curve has tangent slope 1 at the y-axis, which leads to the compound interest limit.
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Mailbag: Sausage Men
I haven't done a mailbag for a long time, but this is a common enough question that I thought I'd explain my thinking here. ...
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If you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider...
Several physicists weigh in on what would happen if you were to place your hand in the proton stream of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. There’s not a definit
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When Things Don't Work Out
I have said many times that early stage VC is a lot like baseball, if you get a hit one out of every three times, you are headed to the hall of fame. And if I look back over my career, and also over the track records of the firms and funds I have helped […]
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Inércia 2023
Filipe Cruz (aka psenough) invited me to Inércia 2023, a local Demoscene event organized by the Associação Inércia that took place in the infamous Incrível Almadense. I’ve done my fair share of bouncing ball assembly demos in the 80s and others more recently, but I don’t qualify as a demoscener, not even by the lowest…
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You gotta think outside the hypercube
A closer look at the tesseract and the ways we can render it on the screen.
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Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice
Erik Bernhardsson
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Progress Beats Perfect
This is a favorite saying of mine. I use it to motivate myself when I feel disheartened about how much I have to learn and improve. If I do ...
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Schopenhauer: On Reading and Books
A meditation on reading, exploring what it means to read and whether it's a path to acquire wisdom.
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The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)
Some printers at a newspaper in the UK made a funny joke about fake islands
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Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself
One mistake I see startups make a lot is getting too focused on what is going on around them. They spend too much time trying to figure out what their competitors are going to do. They watch the next hot startup with jealousy and it reminds them of when they were that "shiny new thing" […]
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How I write and time-manage
I was asked a few times by some very nice people at WWDC this week how I manage my time between Instapaper and Tumblr, and how I write essays here that occasionally make sense. If you’ll forgive my auto-back-patting, here’s the answer I gave, and I think it’s worth sharing with you because you can do the same sort of…
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