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Make More Than GPA
25% Drop in free playtime for 6-to-8-year-olds from 1981 to ’97, while homework more than doubled. Time 30Nov, p.57.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,940 posts.
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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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Tim Ferris: Beginner's Guide to Lucid Dreaming
From 1994-1995 I had the great pleasure of training with wrestling legend John Smith, 2-time gold medalist and 4-time world champion (domestic freestyle record of 80-0; international freestyle record of 100-5).
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You Aren't Average
Do you ever think that SEO is "obvious"? "Common knowledge"? "Pretty easy, really"?
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Grad School Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate
Link to Piled Higher and Deeper
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Paul Buchheit: Is there more to life than money?
Whenever there is a discussion about joining a startup vs working at regular job, someone will defend the boring 9-5 job by saying, "there i...
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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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Just do it
Tinkerer, designer, and angel investor. Building software products and backing early-stage startups.
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Paul Buchheit: Left brain, Right brain, and the other half of the story
In my head, this post and yesterday's post on risk and opportunity are deeply connected, but logically they needed to be split apart. The...
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A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles
Today I’m going to talk about the idea of the miraculous, or at least the appearance of the miraculous. Humans have a strange relationship to the miraculous, but the prime emotion it seems to stimulate is awe, and awesomeness is pretty much what we’re all striving for.
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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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