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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 7,746 posts.
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The Universal Law of Leverage
An article that explains how misunderstanding leverage kills businesses.
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A Modern Space Cadet
I spend a lot of my time (easily over 8 hours a day) at a keyboard. As you might have guessed from my previous entries about Vim and Mutt I'm not averse to spending a few hours to improve an environment I'm going to be spending tens of thousands of hours in over the next few years, so it shouldn't be a shock that my…
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Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons
CHAPTER from SKIN IN THE GAME
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How I Lost 20 Pounds in 20 Weeks With My iPhone (or: Data is King)
Well, it was really more like 17 weeks, but who's counting. ;) First, I'll give the punchline.
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Why wreck a blank canvas?
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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Parenting in the age of Paranoia: A Small Manifesto
We live in a contracting world, with diminishing options to travel far from your home and meet people of unfamiliar backgrounds- if you’re a child.
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Evaluating Extraordinary Claims
To demonstrate the problem, I did a simulation where I generated 480 random numbers per subject, representing the 480 time slices in the experiment. I repeated this generation of random numbers 20 times. I compared the send and no-send intervals of random numbers using a T-test; none of the 20 trials found a…
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Why some smart people are reluctant to share?
Life Beyond Code - Personal and professional development for technology professionals.
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Boost your productivity with Conkeror, Instapaper and a Kindle
A couple of days ago, Lau Jensen wrote that he was using conkeror to surf …
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Last week's news
Most news outlets, including TV news shows and networks, newspapers, news websites, and blogs are targeted at news junkies: they never want to miss a story, and they want to be the first to report it to you.
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Satoshi Kon's last words
Satoshi Kon, the director of anime movies Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Millenium Actress and Paprika, as well as the TV series Paranoia Agent, died on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 at the age of 46. ( NY Times obituary .) He left behind a rambling but extraordinary document , which his family has posthumously posted…
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How to sleep on a long haul flight
To the annoyance of people around me I have no trouble sleeping on long haul flights. And I don't take any fancy medication to do so. Havi...
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Boost your productivity with Hemingway’s hack
Premium domains add authority to your site. Transparent pricing. 1 year WHOIS privacy included. 30-day money back guarantee.
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That's version ∞. First launch version 0.1.
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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