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How To Be Creative: A Lesson From Pablo Picasso(sebastianmarshall.com)
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Steal This Idea: Matching Buyers and Sellers(ajkesslerblog.com)
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Hacking Hollywood(ajkesslerblog.com)
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by ajkessler 15y ago
People are born curious, or interested, or aware. You might consider that a passion for learning or exploring, which I certainly think you could argue is stronger in some people than in others. But, nobody is born passionate about a caree
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Passion Does Not Cause Success(ajkesslerblog.com)
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by ajkessler 15y ago
You're pretty much spot on. After taking several copyright courses in law school, I can definitively say that the whole area of law is a clusterfuck. Even the seminal cases aren't consistent, let alone those on the periphery. Sadly, most
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Entrepreneurs: Learn From Artists; Artists From Entrepreneurs(ajkesslerblog.com)
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Maybe I wasn't very clear: the post made it sound like the point of the "hack" was to identify and recruit talent (i.e. if you were interested in the book you were probably talented). Dealing with physical books, on campus, obviously limit
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by ajkessler 15y ago
True. But, at least for me, it's pretty easy to get distracted in a library or in a park. Plus, I think there's some added benefit in the fact that other people around you are doing the same thing (ie thinking about big/important stuff).
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Why Athiests Need Church(ajkesslerblog.com)
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by ajkessler 15y ago
I bet many people's first reaction to this story is something along the lines of "Look what we're losing if print dies!" or "This is why print will never die!" But, think about Kindle's bookmarks. You can see highlights and notes from ever
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by ajkessler 15y ago
It's certainly a thorny issue though. If you're going to run any sort of welfare state, it's pretty hard to argue for totally open borders; it simply leads to financial ruin, as much of Europe has found out over the last 30 years (which is
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How To Make $1 Billion In One Summer And Get Whatever You Want(ajkesslerblog.com)
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Your Midsize Ego Will Ruin You(ajkesslerblog.com)
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Whenever you give more control to outsiders (whether its government control over private industry or guard control over prisoners) there is greater opportunity for corruption. The reason you're seeing more outright corruption is because th
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Design Is Just Asking "How Do I Maximize Pleasure?"(ajkesslerblog.com)
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by ajkessler 15y ago
It's interesting that you put all the focus on "transcendent beings". Although that's certainly understandable given you believe that's the entire point of our existence. For those of us who don't believe there is some transcendent being o
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Did Boredom Make Species Survival Possible?(ajkesslerblog.com)
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Right. This was the first "game" that actually improved intelligence. The article you linked doesn't have much to do with the claims about dual-n-back. It seems to be referring exclusively to traditional video games, with most of the clai
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by ajkessler 15y ago
It would definitely make sense (the more you can hold in memory at one time, the faster you could learn stuff), but I don't think they've actually concluded that's how it works. They are clearly related though. Another hypothesis is that wo
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by ajkessler 15y ago
The effects are test-independent. That was sort of the point of the study. You will certainly get better at the dual-n-back game, but the gains apply elsewhere, not just to game itself. It has much to do (they think) with the interconnec
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The Tyler Durden Self Help Method(ajkesslerblog.com)
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Data points that people liked one image over another image , which happened to be shot on a particular brand of camera? If your point is that any camera can produce nice images these days, that's a fair one, that's been beaten to death a
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Pretty interesting how accurate his predictions were, in everything from internet domination, the death of services like AOL, free ad-funded content, P2P, and search. Possibly more interesting that Microsoft failed to really capitalize on a
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Bill Gates Predicts Future in 1995(usdoj.gov)
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by ajkessler 15y ago
This is very cool. I remember reading about Dean Kamen's "Luke Arm" a few years back but haven't heard about it in a while. He and his lab were profiled, and they demonstrated the arm, which had, what looked like, the fine motor control t
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Games Are More Important Than Music(ajkesslerblog.com)
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Most of Your Work Sucks(ajkesslerblog.com)
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Thanks Sebastian :) Some of the things I tried to point out in the post are things we often over look. If you're a carpenter running a shop, it's a no-brainer to buy tools that help you be more productive and make your life easier. But, t
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by ajkessler 15y ago
Interesting points. (I'm the original author, btw). Some thoughts: The "loser" word choice, as someone pointed out below, was a double entendre, meant to mean, first, that you're losing in the long run when you make bad/cheap purchases, a

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