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Buy well, buy once
Carl Jeffrey @fellowcreative (fellow™) is a Designer and Doer sharing ideas and thinking on creativity, community, sustainability, strategy, technology…
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,929 posts.
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Shields Up
Years and years ago, I helped the Weekly World News make a book. While their periodical was weekly, it certainly wasn’t news. They were just four people in a small office in Florida. They gle…
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How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery
Owning things is more socially acceptable than renting them.
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Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months
I played chess briefly with my friends in high school, where I had a rating of around 1100 online. I gave up the game for about 10 years, then picked it back up again recently, in May. I’ve tried a ton of different approaches in the past 6 months, switching things up whenever I stopped seeing results. I’ve improved…
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A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials
Exploring the Applecore style
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Thoreau 2.0
This is a written version of a talk I gave on September 21, 2013 , at the XOXO conference in Portland.
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Choose your status game wisely
On status games and how to outsmart them.
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Micro heaters cut 87% off my electric heat bill
In June of 2010 I moved to a place in Montana with only electric heat. By myself. In the past few winters I had conducted experiments in cutting the amount of energy I needed to stay warm, with a focus on heating myself instead of heating the whole house.
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Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
Why owning your own domain and publishing on the open web beats renting attention from Reddit, Discord, Facebook, and other mega-concentrated platforms.
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Ditch Starbucks and work at the library
Explore the United States' intellectual landscape through creative exploration, engaging workshops, and innovative environments, while addressing accessibility and economic challenges to foster inclusive growth.
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Coffee in a Can
Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences. When they happen to some people though they end up becoming multi-billion dollar businesses. This is the story of Japan’s canned coffee. One finds at least one vending machine in almost every street in
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Toxic Productivity
Create forms and surveys, take payments, automate workflows and send documents for signing, all from one easy, doc‑style form builder FOR FREE
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How to Remember What You Read
The benefits of reading are negated if you forget remember what you read. This article discusses a tested system to increase retention. Learn how to use active reading to remember more from books.
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YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet
We launched Startup School as an online program in 2017 to support founders actively working on building their companies. On November 9th, we’re also opening Startup School to potential founders who are interested in starting a company in the future. You can register [https://www.startupschool.org/future-founders] for…
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How to return to the flow faster
Do you know that Java is one of the most widespread programming languages right now? This is being used by startups and even large enterprises Continue reading The Best Java Books that Will Fit Different Skill Levels
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My Go Resolutions for 2017
’Tis the season for resolutions, and I thought it would make sense to write a little about what I hope to work on this year as far as Go is concerned.
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YAGRI: You are gonna read it
YAGNI, or, You aren't gonna need it , is a standard piece of advice that warns against over engineering and building too many features too early. I think its great and saves you from wasting time, which can kill a project.
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Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes
Learn Zettelkasten note-taking: Create permanent, atomic notes linked together to prevent them from being forgotten. Uses plain text files and simple software like Zettlr.
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Welcome (back) to Macintosh
For at least 10 years, every Time Machine set up I have been in charge of, or tasked with maintaining for someone else, has eventually run into an issue where it stops backing up successfully. The only solution has been to start over, to not inherit backup state and to manually delete the old backup. My experience…
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A new chapter – full-time working from a van in a forest
For many people, the year 2020 will go down as a moment in time of hardship in their lives but for me, the year 2019 was dramatically harder as it was the realization that a long-term relationship wasn't going to work out...
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Goodbye Academia
I have enjoyed research and teaching for the last twelve years. Yet, I have resigned from my postdoctoral position at MIT a week ago, givin...