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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 387 posts.
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Title Junk
Writing and designing bookmark-friendly web page titles.
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You Can’t Take It With You
If you’ve had a great career what happens to all your knowledge and experience when you retire?Great Suit My wife and I had dinner last night with a friend of hers from high school. Tom, her husban…
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There are good reasons for saying hello.
Know why? Well, unless the receptionist was just talking to a person with approximately the same size vocal cavity as you, she or he has no hope of understanding you.
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Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
I feel for Google – Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too. In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass*, Steve called my office to let me know the graphica…
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You should blog even if you have no readers
Spencer Fry wrote a great post on "Why entrepreneurs should write." I would further add ...
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Easy Ways to Fail a Ph.D.
I'm supervising a lot of new grad students this semester, so for their sake, I'm cataloging the common reasons for failure.
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Life and How to Survive It (2008)
Today I have an old friend as my guest contributor. Adrian Tan is a litigation lawyer at one of Singapore's leading law firms. Outside the ...
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