Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,943 posts.
The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day. You will be tempted to just peck at it or even skip it altogether, rationalizing that you need to save yourself for the much larger steak later that night. But this is a false economy, like refusing to drink water in the early parts…
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Perhaps like you, I naively started out thinking that Google Slides was just a poorly maintained product suffering from some questionable…
Over less than 6 months I've made more than $15k in revenue from Clean Ruby . It's an unfinished book and I've been working to polish it up and get new content out to my customers but I wanted to take a step back and review where I am.
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.
Like many people, I spend a lot of time reading. Since there is much more that I could read than there is time for, I have to make choices about what I should read. In this short post I’m going to outline what my reading choices have become and why. My aim isn’t to suggest that anyone else should make the same choices…
I want to tell you about The Kid. The Kid really believed in 'Move Fast and Break Things'. Ship-First-Questions-Later.
Dear Future Intern, Welcome! You just got an internship at this amazing start-up, so you're starting to look for housing and are getting pumped for your summer. Rightfully so - the Bay Area is awesome! I spent my last two summers out here as an intern, first at Facebook and (am currently at my last day) at 2bkco, an…
When I started writing online, the advice I got was to publish frequently and not overthink any single piece. The logic was this: the outcome for blog posts is a heavy-tailed statistical distribution—most pieces will be read by barely anyone, but a small subset of outliers will do hundreds if not thousands of times…
Little has been written on managing your own research (and very little on avoiding other people managing your research); however, your research is much more under your control than you may realize.
In this episode, Jeremy Utley explains why good ideas are often preceded by not-so-good ideas.
I defended my Ph.D. thesis on September 7th, 2011. Technically, I'm still not done for a few complicated reasons, but at this point I am willing to declare victory and say I've graduated. Like most other major events in life, this has caused me to reflect on the past four years, when I quit my job at Google to become…
I spent a whole bunch of time this fall and winter taking calls from young financial advisors. I try to schedule this stuff on Friday mornings when things are a little quieter for me. They DM me or email me and I just say yes. I have 15 minutes for any kid reading my stuff...
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I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. At 33 years old, I knew I’d probably be older than the vast majority of the 400+ people attending Y Combinator’s first YC Hacks hackathon. But other than that, I didn’t have many expectations. YC Hacks was my first real hackathon. Many years ago, I went to the …
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
In Work on what matters, I wrote about Hunter Walk’s idea of snacking: doing work that is easy to complete but low impact. The best story of my own snacking behaviors comes from my time at Stripe. I was focused on revamping the engineering organization’s approach to operating reliable software, and decided that it…
A complete explanation of how e, è, é, ê, and ë are used in French, with rules, examples and pronunciation.
Using your phone as a dumb terminal with a Bluetooth keyboard
by Worst-Online-Dater
A tale about mixing GABAergics, neuroticism, responsibility and Heidegger
