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Make an Extraordinary Effort
> "It is essential for a man to strive with all his heart, and to understand that it is difficult even to reach the average if he does not have the i…
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 116 posts.
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Failure must always be an option
An essay I wrote six years ago about some of my experiences working for NASA has gotten some recent attention on Reddit and Hacker News . ...
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Things I learnt during, and about, my PhD
Jamie’s blog about software, startups, and swimming (and other things that don’t alliterate).
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A programmer's view of the Universe, part 2: Mario Kart
Very thought-provoking article. I especially liked the tie-in at the end to the questions modern science is considering about the Big Bang. You make a very valid point -- those sorts of questions are meaningless in the context of the embedded system. The whole time I was reading your Mario Kart analogy, I couldn't…
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Lucky to be a Programmer
For the past few weeks I've been working with a fellow developer on a project that required an all-out programming effort. It's done now, so we're back to a regular schedule, but when people hear abo
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Notes From a Meeting with Warren Buffett
Note: Students from Emory's Goizueta Business School and McCombs School of Business at UT Austin were invited to come visit Mr. Buffett for ...
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Programmer Insecurity
pickin', grinnin', and pushin' bits
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Advice to the Bright and Young
One perspective on school, achievement, meaning, and life. An article on one bright young man, Moshe, recently appeared on Hacker News. For a long time I’ve been meaning to write about the su…
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Hacking your food supply
A perennial problem for my wife and I run into while bootstrapping our business is the lack of time. It seems like the daily grind of cooking, cleaning and shopping tends to eat up most of our available time that we have.
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Grad School Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate
Link to Piled Higher and Deeper
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Hacking Education
I spent a lot of time on this blog in the past month exhorting everyone to give teaching tools to the neediest public schools. I did that because education is possibly the most important thing we can do for our world and our children. But I also believe the the public school system in this […]
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Abbreviated Parody of Paul Graham's "Boss"
Monday, March 24, 2008 Abbreviated Parody of Paul Graham's 'Boss' People aren't meant to have a spouse. I saw some married people in the cafe the other day and something seemed wrong. They weren't passionate. I have a unique perspective on human relations, having been an eligible bachelor and active user of various…
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