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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 325 posts.
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Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor (2011)
[Note: In response to the interest generated by this post I have also posted No, You Cannot be a Professor--the Reactions and For New Rea...
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What Product Companies Can Learn From Consulting Companies
Surprisingly, you can sell $50 SaaS more effectively with tactics used to sell $50,000 consulting engagements.
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Books and papers every graduate student should read
These recommendations are sorted from general to specific: from resources for any kind of graduate student to resources for graduate students in my own field, static analysis.
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I Don't Do That Job Anymore
Something has changed, permanently, in me. I’ve been trying to figure out how to express it, because the transformation has been so interesting, unexpected...
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Non-Creepy Networking: Party Etiquette
Note: This is Part 1 in a series of articles about non-creepy networking. There’s just too much to say to get it all out in one article. <p...
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How To Fire A Co-Founder
The two biggest reasons startups fail is running out of money and founding team implosions. One Y Combinator founder I spoke with felt that about ~20% of startups in his batch blew up in the first 9-12 months after entering YC due to founder issues.
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Don't Look for Talent, Find People Who Do Things
I wrote a blog post a while ago about what one of my former assistants did after working for me, and in it I wondered why so many of them have had success. My conclusion was that:
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My self published book made $11,000 before I finished writing it
That is what I earned on my book for software team leaders before it was even finished. This august I finished writing and publishing my first self-published book. Last month I got done adding a print and an audio…
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Why GitHub is not your CV
Two days ago, Ashe Dryden published an article I’ve been desperately wishing someone would write for months: The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community . It’s a detailed, well-researched take-down of the seemingly quite popular myth that open-source contributions are a useful way to screen candidates for…
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Steal These Freelance Business Ideas
Brian Casel's personal site, portfolio and blog. Brian Casel is a multi-time founder, software product designer and developer.
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