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Google ate my email address
Just now I did a routine Google search whose top result ended up being a thread on Google Groups. To my shock, when I tried to click on thi...
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 340 posts.
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The Leave
Whatever we *expected*, we all *hoped* we’d seen our last Steve Jobs medical leave.
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I've Written a Book
Executive summary: I've written a book. If you like this site, you'll love the book. You can buy it printed on paper or as a DRM-free ebook on the Pragmatic Programmers website .
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Obliterate Startup Depression
One of my favorite parts of the startup community is that we generally all acknowledge that we’re not playing a zero sum game. We create value by creating new markets and disrupting old, inefficient markets. Sure, we compete against each other as well, but in general, the communal spirit of entrepreneurship is a…
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Finance for Geeks
Summary: Eric Sink provides a geek-oriented overview of accounting and company funding.
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The Conclusion: A 6 Figure Business That Fell Apart When I Was 16
Hi Mat, Its “there are 23 paragraphs”, theirs means someone possesses it. their bike. there is a bike is different.
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Why I quit my job
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Why you get ideas in the shower
[This is an excerpt from the Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest, completely irreverent guide to creativity] When you are known as a writer about creativity, people send you interesting things…
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Programming is…
Myth: Programmers get to write code all day. Truth: Most programmers spend a ton of time (in no particular order): Carefully composing e-mails to other programmers/mailing lists/non-technical folks…
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The Teacher
I was fortunate enough to help organize the Strange Loop 2011 conference , but this post is not specifically about that. During the confere...
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Review: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! (A Beginner's Guide) by Miran Lipovača, published by No Starch Press (2011). No Starch was kind enough to send me an advance copy for review.
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Humble pie.
Thank you to everyone who has been supportive of me with this blog since I started it last year. Many of you have voiced your appreciation for posts that you’ve found helpful. It’s been a really fun experience and a nice way to pay it forward as so many people have mentored me on my own path. The fact that…
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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.
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Why Donald Knuth Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months
E-mail Zero Redux Two weeks ago, I introduced E-mail Zero, the concept of living life with no e-mail. The motivation was to investigate innovative ways ... Read more
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Leaving Google
After seven years at Google, I'm leaving. Cue the inevitable 'what's wrong with you?' Before I get to the gripes, though, there are a few popular narratives I want to push back on: that Google has gone evil, that the good engineers are all defecting to Facebook, that 20% time was always a myth. Part one of three. The…
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Practicing 2000 hrs (The Dan Plan: a 10,000 hr deliberate practice experiment)
One year, 5 months and four days = 2,000 hours (strange math, but it adds up) of deliberate practice. 2,000 hours spent literally over a ball working on something in my swing/putt and learning how to play golf. 2,000 hours of aha moments, setbacks, mini-triumphs and determination to get better. 2,000 hours of…