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Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World
Discover groundbreaking research, inspiring student stories and more from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 1,197 posts.
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Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds
Reduced volume was found in areas of the brain connected to memory formation, indicating a potential link between TV watching and higher dementia risk.
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User interface design timeframes: from 0.1 seconds to 10 years (2009)
From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues.
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How to Ship a Beluga Whale via UPS
As a UPS cargo load master, Bland Matthews has been tasked with shipping everything from Terracotta Army soldiers to beluga whales.
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Moby Dick Workout (2022)
How many items should your todo list handle? Not the most pressing question in the world, but one that I sometimes wonder about. I think productivity apps should scale to “user…
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Reading Lamport, again
We’ve just kicked off an internal distributed-systems seminar. Our inaugral paper was Lamport’s classic “Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distrib...
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The programmers who live in Flatland
In the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a two-dimensional world called “Flatland” is inhabited by polygonal creatures like triangles, squares, and circles. The protaganist, a square, is…
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Why Can't I Take an Orange Through Customs?
Fruit flies, agroterrorism, and how a healthy snack became a threat to national security.
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What Makes a Hit
Columbia Business School. For over 100 years, we’ve helped develop leaders who create value for business and society at large.
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Workplace experiments: A month to yourself
Back in 2008 we shared some of our workplace experiments including the four day work week (still in effect May – Oct), funding people’s passions (we’re still doing this, too), and discretionary spending accounts (everyone still gets a company Amex they can use for anything work re…
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New study shows we work harder when we are happy
Happiness makes people more productive at work, according to the latest research from the University of Warwick.
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Why does a librarian own MetaFilter?
Jessamyn West is not just one of the web's favorite librarians, but the new owner of Metafilter, an incredibly long-running social network that dates back to a very different Internet. In the first part of our interview with Jessamyn, she tells us just how Metafilter has kept going and stayed healthy since 1999.
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Read Fewer Books
We publish articles around emotional education: calm, fulfilment, perspective and self-awareness. | How to Read Fewer Books — Read now
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Open-plan office is the worst. Why can't we kill it?
The open-plan office fad took off as a dream for a more collaborative and egalitarian workplace. Tear down those walls! Ditch the soul-crushing...
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Ways to teach kids to code (2016)
Board games, apps, websites, and tutorials for teaching kids to code.
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John Mayer: "Manage the Temptation to Publish Yourself"
Nhờ sự ổn định, hình ảnh sắc nét và khả năng cập nhật nhanh chóng, CakhiaTV trở thành địa chỉ quen thuộc của hàng triệu người hâm mộ bóng đá mỗi ngày. Dù bạn
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Clinical trial finds blood-plasma infusions for Alzheimer’s safe, promising
In a small safety trial based on preclinical work by a Stanford researcher, participants receiving blood plasma infusions from young donors showed some evidence of improvement.
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When does an old iPhone become unsafe to use?
When Apple stops issuing security updates for older iPhones, they become unsafe to use. But exactly how long can you safely keep using an old iPhone, and when should you upgrade?
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I do whatever I want at work and I haven’t been fired yet
A few of us at Basecamp were recently discussing how decisions get made to “green light” new projects, and I came to the conclusion that it boils down a simple rule: If you can make a decision and …
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