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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 87 posts.

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How to Get Rich (1999)

[JARED DIAMOND:] In Guns, Germs, and Steel I asked why history has unfolded differently over the last 13,000 years in Eurasia, in the Americas, in sub-Saharan Africa, and in Aboriginal Australia, with the result that within the last 500 years Europeans were the ones who conquered Native Americans and Aboriginal…

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2018 Engineering Gift Guide

The INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering is a research center in the School of Engineering Education (the world's first) at Purdue University focusing on pre-college engineering education research and integration with science, technology, mathematics and literacy.

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This Thing for Which We Have No Name (2014)

It's not my job to be a behavioral economist; my job is to actually popularize behavioral economics. The interesting thing to me—as someone who has a brother who's an academic—is that academics, however brilliant, are the worst marketers in the world. And there's a reason for this, which is they, of course, possibly…

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The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the…

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Howl

I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for…