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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 394 posts.
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North Korea 2013 – A travel journal
In summer 2013 I traveled to the most isolated country in the world. I've experienced expected and unexpected things. This is my illustrated travel journal.
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An Unremarkable Event in the Tenderloin
I just ran across a wretched, unfortunate looking man while walking through the Tenderloin. If you've spent any time here, you know this is nothing out of the ordinary. It made me sad.
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This Post Took 3 Years to Write
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Sequence of Events in the Cockpit on Asiana Flight 214
Last week, the NTSB held the Asiana Flight 214 Investigative Hearing. On the 6th of July 2013, Asiana Flight 214, a scheduled passenger flight from Incheon, South Korea to San Francisco, CA, crashe…
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The Fallacy of Money As A Means
If you want to make a lot of money perhaps you should first ask yourself this critical question which could dramatically alter the way you think about your
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Public speaking for introverts
A few days before I have to talk in front a lot of people I get this queasy feeling in my stomach that won’t go away. I don’t want to eat. I just want to c
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Today I Deleted My LinkedIn Account; You Probably Should Too
(Please note corrections after the post) Today I will delete my LinkedIn account. I say I will instead of I have because I do not know how LinkedIn’s account settings work; deleting my accou…
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Simplify
I used to be a slave to my startups. If I wasn't working, I had a perpetual feeling of guilt that I should be working. I had a revelation one day when I realized I didn't have to read everything I found on the Internet.
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Procrastination should be solved by lighting fires, not filling buckets
2019 update: Wow, people are still reading this! I wrote this 6 years ago. I’m going to leave it unedited + add some new thoughts. With the benefit of hindsight, I think… thinking about productivity apps is a sort of proxy approach to thinking about productivity itself. I never did…
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Nicotine as a useful stimulant
On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine (research up to 2015)
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How To Take Exceptional Notes and Be Productive with Paper
Learn how a former Google PM transformed his productivity with an analog note-taking system. A practical guide to effective paper-based organization for startup leaders.
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The Melancholy of Subculture Society
Internet links small groups, helping dissolve big groups; good, bad? But a bit sad.
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Getting a job in San Francisco
You’re living outside the US and want to get a job in San Francisco? This might help you getting one.
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Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors
Within the constraints of the Emacs environment, there are no limits. Emacs is built upon this principle; the Lisp principle. Make some small kernel of features. A substrate. Take care to make this substrate programmable (in any language, Emacs chooses Lisp), and then build the system upon it. Let users worry about…
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