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Steps Towards Happiness (2015)
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 7,742 posts.
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Insurance is like gambling, don't overdo it
Insurance companies, like betting companies, need high margins to keep operating. You are paying that margin.
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Don’t Quit When It Gets Hard
Read this if you're thinking about quitting. I personally think about quitting three or four times a month. I've found a way to NOT quit.
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Going “Write-Only”
Joey Hess inspires me. He lives in a cabin and programs Haskell on a drastically under-powered netbook. He harvests all his electricity from the sun with a homemade electrical system. Joey has designed his computing life to be highly distributed like the git version control he loves. His internet connection is…
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How to Write an Opening Sentence
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
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What Shape Are You?
This post is a guest post from my friend Brian Sharp My post before this was a kind of therapy / Buddhism / personal growth kind of deal, but I also spend a lot of time thinking ab...
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No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda
When working remotely, asking for help is often just a few keystrokes away. So it's tempting to "quickly" ask someone for support when you get stuck.
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Apprenticeships Beat Classrooms
Apprenticeships beat schooling. Here's why they're a superior method for learning, and how you can apply this to the things you want to master.
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Without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements—A Review
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Chopping up books when they're physically too big
Matt Kirkland is a designer. He probably reads too much.
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Do not apologize for replying late to my email
Do not apologize for replying late to my email par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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The Anti-Productivity Manifesto
After a barrage of recommendations on my twitter, I finally ended up reading Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks. The central premise of the book is simple: everyone has got about four thousand weeks to live, and spending that limited time chasing efficiency is wrongheaded. The message seems old. The entire…
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My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)
Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
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Appearances vs. Experiences: What Makes Us Happy
In the search for happiness, we often confuse how something looks with how it’s likely to make us feel. This is especially true when it comes to our homes. If we want to maximize happiness, we need to prioritize experiences over appearances.
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Title Junk
Writing and designing bookmark-friendly web page titles.
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How to get yourself to do things (2015)
I have a special sympathy for sufferers of a particular human problem, and I get more emails about it than just about any other topic. There are normal people, who
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Books every self-taught computer scientist should read
There are three books that I believe that every self-taught computer scientist should read. These are books that I often recommend to smart junior developers that learned their knowledge by doing instead of schooling. These are books that will close the gap for people that fall into the category of ...
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When Your Screen Breaks in the Himalayas
Usually when your laptop screen breaks you curse and just fork out the cash to get it fixed. Perhaps whilst you’re waiting for the replacement parts you plug in an external monitor. It’s annoying but it needn’t be a show stopper. But what if you’re two days bus ride from the nearest major city and you can’t trust the…
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How to play board games online with your friends
BGA, TTS, Steam?! This guide is for anyone who wants to play board games online with your friends but isn’t sure where to start.
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Own-goal football (2022)
In a 1994 qualifying match for the Caribbean Cup, both Barbados and Grenada attempted to score deliberate own goals – because it was the best strategy available.