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Chess grandmasters use twice the brain(newscientist.com)
5 points by chegra 16y ago|1 comments
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by chegra 16y ago
I have this thing about learning stuff. If I find something hard to understand, it is normally not me it is my source. I have years of proving I could understand stuff, but these authors generally don't have that level of experience in teac
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by chegra 16y ago
What I think western culture values more is internal drive. Sure you can beat greatness out of someone or you can inspire it. Inspiration can be a hit or miss thing, but when it happens, it is a beautiful thing. There are only a few top spo
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Don't mix A Players with B Players(chestergrant.posterous.com)
2 points by chegra 16y ago|0 comments
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by chegra 16y ago
All I got is this: "Fatty foods slow down the brain and impair mental function, nutrition researchers have found. But they also make people more sociable." - http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/28/081.html "Eating fatty food appears to t
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by chegra 16y ago
"Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized." - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by chegra 16y ago
"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by chegra 16y ago
You can add he submitted a post for me to HN that got 20k views to that list. I know you are being sarcastic, but I can confirm that he at least done that one thing, and for me that is amazing.
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Speech in the Home(forbes.com)
2 points by chegra 16y ago|0 comments
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by chegra 16y ago
I totally agree with it being an income issue, but I only had statistics about fatherless. If others are looking for a reference on what he is talking about regarding West Indian and African Black Immigrants see below: About 8 percent, or 5
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by chegra 16y ago
One point to note is that black culture in American is not monolithic. In this article, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07kristof.html?_r=... , they mention the success of West Indian blacks. They pointed out in that articles
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People procrastinate when asked to think in the abstract(economist.com)
2 points by chegra 16y ago|0 comments
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by chegra 16y ago
Many Thanks.
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by chegra 16y ago
I love seeing this, HN members teaming up. Let me add some strategies: "Dog Strategy" - Use timing to win. Certain times of the day or month or year goals are easily accomplished and obstacles easier to overcome, use those times to your adv
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by chegra 16y ago
If we want our life to go well, Epictetus says, we should, rather than wanting events to conform to our desires, make our desires conform to events; we should, in other words, want events “to happen as they do happen.” - Taken from A guide
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by chegra 16y ago
The chair of Electrical Engineering Department of Stanford University has announced that: "Without a doubt the finest university in the world preparing undergraduate Electrical engineers is Sharif University of Technology in Tehran" - http:
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by chegra 16y ago
I debated whether to add the comment criticizing it. I gave a compliment first of what I liked about the essay. Then, I realize some might take the essay another way, so I said it wouldn't hurt to put in my 2 cent of this. No conspiracy.
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by chegra 16y ago
I'm very much against this type of thinking. My garbage man does stuff, but I don't see him famous. A lot of people do stuff. Doing stuff is maybe a prerequisite of being famous but it is not sufficient(or maybe it is not, you can be born
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by chegra 16y ago
The money quote for me: "I did some things I'm proud of and a few that I'm not. I failed a lot, but learned a lot too. Hopefully, in 2011, I won't let trivial fears set me back: I'll do more, try more, and say "yes" more. There's just too m
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PPC vs. SEO(seomoz.org)
2 points by chegra 16y ago|0 comments
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by chegra 16y ago
Could I get an explanation as to why the Jews are in the higher income brackets?
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by chegra 16y ago
I see systems that are design for his success. Take away his systems, I think his probability of success would drastically decrease. His systems set his expectation. I'm sure his school consistently produce high calibre people like him and
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The Journey is the Goal(chestergrant.posterous.com)
1 points by chegra 16y ago|0 comments
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Thanks for mentioning that. I scroll to the bottom of the book and got this for reference: "The Cornell experiment was never documented and has thus taken on the status of hearsay evidence except for those of us who were there. For a concur
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by chegra 16y ago
"During the 1960s, researchers at Cornell University conducted a series of tests on the effects of working with music. They polled a group of computer science students and divided the students into two groups, those who liked to have music
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by chegra 16y ago
"Quit your job and start a company" - Yep, that totally didn't work out as I had hoped. Stuff that are easy to do when there is no pressure suddenly become impossible. Thinking about it as walking on a board one foot wide on the ground, eas
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Quality Oriented Vs. Deadline Oriented(chestergrant.posterous.com)
2 points by chegra 16y ago|0 comments
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by chegra 16y ago
"It was founded in 2007 by MIT graduates Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a Y Combinator startup" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28service%29
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by chegra 16y ago
You can tell them that you will discuss it after the meeting or just say you don't know. Most people will laugh when you say you don't know and think you are cool.
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by chegra 16y ago
I don't think he should follow your advice of making more useful stuff. 1) He has found a formula that works. Never change a winning team; follow the course until it fails. 2) The useless apps get more than 10x the number of downloads(from

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