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by hoodwink 7y ago
Echoing the recommendation for Remote elsewhere in this thread. I also recommend Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace. Cubed does not address remote work per se, but it does help explain the history of the office and how that became the
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by hoodwink 7y ago
For the record, I also moved from SF to a cabin in the woods, enabled by remote work.
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by hoodwink 7y ago
Based on these replies, I guess it is just my bubble. My peers and I graduated into the finance boom and were able to ride the paycheck economy before the Great Recession.
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by hoodwink 7y ago
I just left SF for North Carolina. This is merely anecdata, but there are plenty of big city folk here with me, including from SF.
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by hoodwink 7y ago
Agreed on less expensive cities.
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by hoodwink 7y ago
I’m not tied to “the city”. In fact, I rather loathe SF and NYC (just finished a 3 year stint in SF). I’m just anti-suburbs. I’m pro-livable smaller cities like Philly, Austin, Denver, Nashville, Portland, Pittsburgh, etc. I’m extremely bul
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by hoodwink 7y ago
This article doesn’t jive whatsoever with my anecdotal experience as an urban dwelling elder millennial. As my friends and family form families, they either stay in the city. After all, having a kid or two and staying in NYC or SF is the ul
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by hoodwink 7y ago
WeWork doesn’t own property the same way you don’t own your house. The bank does. You still have an asset though, and so do they. Their asset is what’s known as a leasehold interest. Riskier and shorter duration than owning real estate, but
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by hoodwink 7y ago
I don’t understand why laypeople are so confused by how real estate investing works. I build an office building and spend $100M. I “hemorrhaged cash” yet I own an asset that’s going to throw off cash flow for years. It’s the same thing with
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by hoodwink 7y ago
Finally, some clear thinking.
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by hoodwink 7y ago
Same. The dueling challenge in Monkey Island is my all time favorite.
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by hoodwink 7y ago
I’ve been using Anki to remember the books I read. Pretty powerful stuff. More here: https://blog.readwise.io/remember-more-of-what-you-read-with... Anki is super hacky for this purpose so we’ve actually developed into soft
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by hoodwink 7y ago
You don't understand the business. You think WeWork is for individuals like you. It's not. It's for enterprises. In any case, I addressed their staggering competitive advantage in my original post. They can build space in one
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by hoodwink 7y ago
I’ve worked in real estate private equity, specifically office acquisitions, my entire 15 year career and I can say I used to despise WeWork as much as everyone here. After doing the work to understand the business, however, I now take a co
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by hoodwink 7y ago
Pocket API. We have a handy FAQ response that has probably driven ~100 feature requests :D https://readwise.io/faq#is-it-possible-to-include-highlights...
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by hoodwink 7y ago
We probably get at least one user a day requesting Pocket highlight support. Although we’d love to integrate with Pocket, we unfortunately cannot because they don’t support highlights in their API. We tell our users to use Instapaper instea
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by hoodwink 8y ago
Soon :) Shoot us an email at hello@readwise.io and we'll send you more details.
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by hoodwink 8y ago
All my notes and highlights, from all sources, are in Readwise. Includes metadata like tags, future notes, chapter, etc.
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by hoodwink 8y ago
Kindle for nonfiction. Audible for fiction. Instapaper for articles. Take notes and highlights while reading nonfiction to better connect to the material. All hooked up to and constantly synced with Readwise for enhanced retention and easy
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by hoodwink 8y ago
We need a startup that fixes capitalism. Err fixes capitalism for labor. Capitalism is fine as is for capitalists.
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by hoodwink 8y ago
Wow. Great introduction. Love how you headed off snarky comments such as the percentage of income, the fact that $2K/mo isn’t a lot in some places, that 5 months of learning is only enough to start a new journey, not reach the destinat
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by hoodwink 8y ago
Ah what I would do to play a good ol’ game of TradeWars 2002 the ol’ fashioned way
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by hoodwink 8y ago
Does it support an easy way of accessing notes and highlights?
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by hoodwink 8y ago
Constantly experimenting with different systems, both analog and digital, but never found one that clicked. Evernote was good, but I felt like my notes went in and died. A graveyard of creative thoughts. Lately, I’ve been spending more time
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by hoodwink 8y ago
Fonta Hadley (Eloquence Studios)
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by hoodwink 8y ago
The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox-Cabane is pretty solid, but actually implementing the concepts in practice versus simply understanding them in theory is always the hard part. I used a combination of Anki flashcards and Readwise [0] to decen
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by hoodwink 8y ago
One time I figured out how to double integrate acceleration from a MEMS accelerometer to get displacement/distance. I did this for a fitness tracker for lifting.
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by hoodwink 8y ago
As someone who has struggled with sleep since childhood, I’ve been scared stiff by popular media that every ailment known to man is going to afflict me... underperformance, won’t develop muscle, won’t form memories, cancer, heart attacks, E
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by hoodwink 8y ago
Interesting that the title doesn’t use “octopi”
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by hoodwink 8y ago
+1 Dhandho Investor describes this same story and the philosophy / technique to replicate this approach in your own life https://www.amazon.com/Dhandho-Investor-Low-Risk-Method-Retu...

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