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A Productivity Hack for Teams(blog.transloc.com)
27 points by aspirant 15y ago|7 comments
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Innovators take note.(blog.transloc.com)
12 points by aspirant 16y ago|5 comments
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Napping at work. A company that gets it.(blog.transloc.com)
79 points by aspirant 16y ago|35 comments
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Inter-conscious communication (psychology / productivity)(joshwhiton.com)
2 points by aspirant 16y ago|0 comments
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A crash course on human growth(joshwhiton.com)
3 points by aspirant 16y ago|0 comments
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by aspirant 16y ago
When I was a kid, I would just walk around reading books all the time. And I was also the youngest kid in my grade, so I was quite small. I was kind of a smart aleck. It was a recipe for disaster. I'd get called every name in the book and
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by aspirant 16y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned Paul Graham's How to do Philosophy . We are after all hanging out in his living room. http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
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by aspirant 16y ago
"When someone is suffering from depression, they are sick." That's what drug companies say. Another theory is that depression is a healthy response to something in the outer or inner life that must change. So a bout of depression, uncomfort
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by aspirant 16y ago
That's why we have the concept of values. You can't tell whether something is good or bad until you hold it against some value like... speed of execution, or intuitiveness, or least code. Once you do, judge away. That's why postmodernism is
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Consider dropping out of school.(joshwhiton.com)
45 points by aspirant 16y ago|58 comments
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by aspirant 16y ago
Your first if statment = false. Most specialization doesn't require increased training. You're thinking of brain surgeons when most specialization means operating a cash register or pushing a button on an assembly line. Therefore most speci
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by aspirant 16y ago
I know an independent software developer who says his kids are going to learn to program and configure servers at the earliest possible age. He doesn't care if they pursue programming as a career later on, helping him with tech jobs will be
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Summer Camp Neurosis(joshwhiton.com)
6 points by aspirant 16y ago|4 comments
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Dreams(joshwhiton.com)
1 points by aspirant 16y ago|0 comments
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How I recommend books to myself.(joshwhiton.com)
4 points by aspirant 16y ago|0 comments
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by aspirant 16y ago
Not true. That is what Abraham Maslow spent his life trying to tell us. People have needs. Physiological ones (air, water), and also psychological ones (challenges, self-esteem). Therefore, we can know a want from a need because a need is a
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by aspirant 16y ago
If you want more context, it was usually the employees of the company I founded that told me I needed to shower. It's not like I had flies swarming around me. Rather, they'd walk into my office and sniff and let me know it was about that ti
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by aspirant 16y ago
That's what half of Thoreau's Walden is about.
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by aspirant 16y ago
Right. Washing dishes in nice soapy 90 degree water doesn't kill any germs. It just feels good on your hands. But people gave me a lot of crap about using cold water anyway. So part of my process, just to be safe, was to ensure the clean di
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Why I went without hot water for a year(joshwhiton.com)
92 points by aspirant 16y ago|108 comments
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I threw out most of my pots and pans, ate some dinner, and wrote this.(joshwhiton.com)
4 points by aspirant 16y ago|2 comments
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by aspirant 16y ago
Right. Usually the Jungian usage is written 'Self' with a capital 'S'. I quite believe in it now and looking back, credit it as the source that allowed me to quit various dead-end jobs, even when they paid a lot and were held in high regard
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by aspirant 16y ago
This is part of a theme I've been writing about lately. It seems that many people reach a point in life where they begin to experience the unconscious mind as a distinct and separate intelligence from their conscious mind. For me it started
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Michael Crichton once thought his unconscious mind was trying to kill him(joshwhiton.com)
10 points by aspirant 16y ago|4 comments
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by aspirant 17y ago
I know nothing about Canon's product release cycles. Is now a good time to invest in this puppy? Or will the 5D Mark III or some such thing be out soon?
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I'm an Innovator, Not a Businessman(joshwhiton.com)
4 points by aspirant 17y ago|0 comments
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Hacking poo poo(weblife.org)
1 points by aspirant 18y ago|0 comments
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by aspirant 18y ago
Forget the exclusivity, what we're talking about is the summum bonum : the ultimate goal according to which values and principles are established. A person whose summum bonum is maximum comfort and security will have a very different life
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by aspirant 18y ago
"Advertising is the price you pay for being unoriginal."
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by aspirant 18y ago
I spent a month in Cambridge after writing this and now think this post was a bit rash. Cambridge may be more about ideas than anywhere else, but it also seemed home, more than anywhere else, to people doing scholarship for scholarship sake

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