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by harscoat 16y ago
the only thing I wished I had known at your age is the "10 000 hours rule". It is hard to find one's calling... but sometimes the "calling" is retrospectively the place where you have put in the most hours. Also what wccrawford describes wo
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Google is lost in location-based battle with Facebook(scobleizer.com)
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Facebook Gives Developers Access To Full Set Of Places APIs(techcrunch.com)
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by harscoat 16y ago
It's called "The Xi", it's about the "Firefighters Foreign Legion". They are on a sacred mission ;) I served 5y. in the Paris Fire Brigade, hence the inspiration. Now since it is a hobby, I just need to write a little bit regularly to finis
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by harscoat 16y ago
You should put it as a condition in the acceptance to W11. On a rolling basis "You shall wash the dishes of your colleagues". Another way to learn life & teamwork, not consider yourself too seriously, and mingle with other startup guys
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Brad Feld - The Quarterly Week Off The Grid(feld.com)
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by harscoat 16y ago
The new Glamour thx to Hollywood: "I am an Entrepreneur" -Sean Parker(/Timberlake) to the girl is just slept with
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by harscoat 16y ago
That is a question! I love HN community, joined thx to my awesome cofounder and I have a little 11m son:) This may kill our YC application (we would definitely move to CA, but can a cofounder work as much his a. off with a baby? etc.) but d
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Prizewinning chatbot steers the conversation(newscientist.com)
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Darwins Thinking Path (pic)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Entrepreneurship as a Science - The Business Model/Customer Development Stack(steveblank.com)
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Facebook Graph API Explorer(mrcoles.com)
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Why don't you guys [Hunch] go after a single problem(cdixon.posterous.com)
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by harscoat 16y ago
The power of a graph.
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Spomenik - Futuristic Communist Yougoslavia monuments(foto8.com)
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by harscoat 16y ago
"Novel geneticist" (= looking in detail how literary text/novel are produced cf. link) P.M. de Biasi distinguishes between "with Plan" literature and "au fil de la plume". 1st example is Flaubert (Many Plans and scenarii before "writing" th
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by harscoat 16y ago
2cts I think he said go to the harder side 1st (if it's supply, supply, if it's demand, demand) and then shift to the easier side. For me was the best talk from Startup School 2010 with its story: "Go to your users"!
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Why you need a co-founder - Creative pairs(cognitionandculture.net)
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by harscoat 16y ago
Wondering if the painting behind PG on the picture could have been one he painted himself?
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by harscoat 16y ago
Le goût est le nec plus utlra de l'intelligence/Lautréamont (means sthg like 'Taste is intelligence brought to its highest intensity') _ Original quote "Le goût est la qualité fondamentale qui résume toutes les autres qualités. C’est le nec
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Hackers and Painters(paulgraham.com)
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Focusing Outside of Your Company(justanentrepreneur.com)
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What it takes(forbes.com)
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by harscoat 16y ago
That's also where our own thoughts (my cofndr & I) are heading to: instead of quality, let's look at quantity and distribution patterns and maybe later we'll find correlation with quality. Test if regularity of a practice breeds qualit
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by harscoat 16y ago
10 000 hours of work(!) is a necessary(not sufficient though) condition, rather than "thinking".
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by harscoat 16y ago
"Go to your users!" PG to AirBnB
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by harscoat 16y ago
Thanks for streaming the event
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Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85(nytimes.com)
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by harscoat 16y ago
It seems that Taleb wants to separate Mandelbrot, a sophisticated, educated, refined, and übersmart person, from the rest of the crowd. * "To Benoit Mandelbrot A Greek among Romans" is the Incipit of The "Black Swan" Taleb's book. * Taleb c
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by harscoat 16y ago
"RIP Beniot Mandelbrot, fractal man. Assume he's survived by a number of smaller versions of himself." Eliot Reuben / @ereuben

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