c0riander

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by c0riander 14y ago
I think it was saying that if "happiness"="the pursuit of meaning" then "pursuit of happiness"="pursuit of the pursuit of meaning." Which is redundant.
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by c0riander 14y ago
I agree that both lists are important questions to ask, but as you allude to in your last sentence, it seems like it's asking for a great deal of self-awareness. Most people are probably just not self-aware to be able to accurately answer t
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by c0riander 14y ago
I've definitely experienced this on the receiving end, both with startups and new products, but also with random mailing lists that only send out updates sporadically. A good rule of thumb for ANY mass email communication is to lead with a
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by c0riander 14y ago
I don't think the quote is advocating cutting out people who are going through a negative time, just those who are negative to YOU. There's a difference between supporting someone through their difficulty and someone who is not supporting y
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by c0riander 14y ago
More than just expecting to break your habit, I think the crucial piece is planning what you will do once you have. The most dangerous moment in building a new habit is the moment when you realize that the best case scenario (aka sticking
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by c0riander 14y ago
In high school, I was lucky to have multiple teachers who were sticklers for imparting the essential building blocks of strong writing. We spent a lot of time "in the weeds," rote-learning vocabulary, sentence patterns, paragraph construct
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by c0riander 14y ago
A quick Google search turns up several interesting studies. Here's a link to a good APA overview of a few of them: http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/willpower-poverty-financial.pd...
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by c0riander 14y ago
Totally agree. Writing "X vs Y" posts is a pretty common and effective inbound marketing tactic (it tends to be a common search query across buyers). Here's an explanation of why and how it works: http://www.thesaleslion.com/blog-talk-abo
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by c0riander 14y ago
This reminds me a great deal of the insights of Susan Sontag in her essay On Photography. To wit: "A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it -- by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic,
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by c0riander 14y ago
There is Make Haven in New Haven: http://makehaven.org/
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by c0riander 14y ago
I personally start by checking LinkedIn to see if I have any connections there - if not, then I go to my school's alumni network or ask my friends who work in that industry or live in that city to see if anyone can connect me. Otherwise, it
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Paying your dues(bryce.vc)
2 points by c0riander 14y ago|0 comments
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by c0riander 15y ago
Smart people ask questions because they have enough confidence that they are smart to expose their ignorance. Acting like you know everything doesn't come from a place of intelligence - it comes from a place of fear, that the other person k
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by c0riander 15y ago
I thought this discussion was about sexism in tech - what kind of comments are sexist and why that matters - not about convicting or even trying a particular individual in the court of public opinion. Of course it matters to his reputation,
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by c0riander 15y ago
If we are talking about whether or not sexism occurred, then it does not in fact matter what someone said before or after they said something sexist. I'm not trying to convict anyone - in another comment I note that these situations are oft
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by c0riander 15y ago
The point is relevance to the situation and context. If someone is about to give a talk, then (depending on the venue) it may be appropriate to say "Stacy is very funny," because it has a clear implication for the situation at hand. But ima
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by c0riander 15y ago
Some of these comments baffle me. Look, it doesn't matter what someone said before or after they sexualized someone in a professional context. Here's why: human beings are smart. They know that things people say matter. Thus, if you are
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by c0riander 15y ago
Actually, you may be interested to know the OED is a historical dictionary and in fact does not necessarily list common usage first. The OED is a historical dictionary, with a structure that is very different from that of a dicti
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by c0riander 15y ago
I'm not sure what you are getting at here. The word is originally Greek (ἀπόκρυφα) and means "those hidden away" - in common usage it can refer to accounts that are not part of the "official story," such as the Bible's Apocrypha. There are
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by c0riander 15y ago
Based on my experience as an intern several years ago, the following were the BEST way to have your opinion passed along: 1) Phone calls 2) PERSONALIZED dead tree letters (not form ones, photo copies, or from one of those letter generators)
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by c0riander 15y ago
Yes, I think you're right that the default expectation is the modified paragraph - which is why it's necessary to create organizations like Ladies Learning Code that explicitly contradict that.
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by c0riander 15y ago
As they say, the lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.
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by c0riander 15y ago
Mark Suster's advice is directly contrary to this - he says to NEVER ask a busy person to lunch, since that's a large chunk of wasted (and in my experience, if the conversation isn't well, essentially captive) time. http://www.bothsidesoft
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by c0riander 15y ago
According to several studies, obesity is in fact "socially contagious" -- or at least, correlated: if a friend of yours becomes obese, you are now 57% more likely to as well. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1646997,00.ht...
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There's No Such Thing as Constructive Criticism(blogs.hbr.org)
3 points by c0riander 15y ago|0 comments
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Teaching Good Sex(nytimes.com)
181 points by c0riander 15y ago|100 comments
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What good interview questions are actually trying to discover(sethgodin.typepad.com)
3 points by c0riander 15y ago|0 comments
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Could Hacker Spaces Hatch the Next Generation of Biotech Innovators?(forbes.com)
2 points by c0riander 15y ago|0 comments
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by c0riander 15y ago
Conventionally, you would just say "Jesses" and the possessive would be clear from context. As for the apostrophe, the veritable Strunk & White (arbiters of writing style) say: Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's. Fol
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by c0riander 15y ago
Anecdotally speaking, that reminds me of a woman's comment about why she found raising a VC round so exhausting and difficult -- it was much harder for her to shake off the criticism and doubt constantly lobbed at her by potential investors

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