hoodwink

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by hoodwink 10y ago
Ah yes, I've seen SWATH before. Here's my issue: when I started playing, it was on a BBS where everyone played manually. There were no helpers or scripts. We'd manually keep track of sectors and port pairs and potential bubbl
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by hoodwink 10y ago
What are the TW games out there right now? I was not aware! I've dreamt for years about licensing TW to make a mobile version consistent with the gameplay of the BBS days. Before scripts. I don't know if you fall in love with the
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by hoodwink 10y ago
Anyone play TradeWars 2002? That's what I was doing in '93 on my BBS.
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by hoodwink 10y ago
My antilibrary is in the form of Kindle samples. Every time I come across a title that interests me, I send myself a free sample. Whenever I'm in need of a new book to read, I browse my samples and sample them until one captures my i
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by hoodwink 10y ago
Those are some great coworkers to work alongside. I know both by reputation alone. Levels obviously for all his awesome work in the digital nomad scene and Oskar because of his work on spaced repetition for learning coding languages.
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Stop focusing on long-term goals (outcomes) and focus on daily habits (process). For example, rather than focusing on learning French, do 15 minutes of Duolingo every day.
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by hoodwink 10y ago
Just a reminder that Nobel Prize in Economics is actually the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
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by hoodwink 10y ago
Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, and A Guide to the Good Life
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by hoodwink 10y ago
The pendulum swings slowly. Here's what offices looked like for many white-collar workers in the 1950s/1960s: http://sites.psu.edu/leadership/wp-content/uploads/sites/806... The 1980s represent
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The open versus closed office debate feels new, but it's a pendulum that has swung for decades from one extreme to the other. The reality is that most modern workers need access to a multitude of workspaces: open, social areas for coll
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That's a wonderful quote echoing some of my thoughts regarding the post-work economy. Does one need to read the entire "Hainish series" to enjoy this book? Or can I just jump right in?
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The book I recently reread was Fooled by Randomness. Working in the finance industry, that book changed my life.
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The history of tall buildings is that of huge egos. Sure, market forces cause rational developers to build more density when land prices are high... but not skyscraper high. The risk is too significant. The existence of these monoliths, in
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by hoodwink 10y ago
Anki (and spaced repetition in general) is an amazing tool enabling you to learn more in less time. The problem is that the learning curve is quite steep. Alex's manual holds your hand up the learning curve with clear instructions and
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by hoodwink 10y ago
Anyone feel like there's been a resurgence in the popularity of board games in general? Maybe I'm just getting older and my friends are interested in activities other than partying, but I feel like all my circles have simultaneous
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by hoodwink 10y ago
This guy's guide on Anki (Anki Essentials) changed my life
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Thoreau is obviously a tad extreme, particularly in Walden , but his messages are timeless. These quotes profoundly impacted my life: > I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who hav
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by hoodwink 10y ago
It's just the process of organizing your ideas in a logical order. At the start, I have a bunch of ideas and I do my best to organize them into an outline. But as I begin writing and continue my research, I realize that some of my id
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by hoodwink 10y ago
I _love_ Bookdown, but only once I figured out how to incorporate it into my writing workflow. I'm writing a ~150 page monograph. As the document evolved, organizing the prose and reordering the structure gradually became too cumberso
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by hoodwink 10y ago
This is a question of virtue versus pleasure which is much explored by the Stoics because a contemporary, competing movement was Epicureanism, which extolled pleasure. OP is referring, however, to the "life hack" promoted by the a
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The problem is that we are hard wired to always want more . It requires constant reflection to short circuit this tendency.
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Rouxbe is a great resource for learning how to cook from first principles.
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by hoodwink 10y ago
Worked for 10 years. Long distance girlfriend and I wanted to close the gap but didn't want stay in NYC or PHL. So we came up with Option C: sell everything and travel the world for a year. 1.5 years later it's worked out pretty w
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My favorites were Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb and Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
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Why is that? I think I'm ready for a new language.
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Hobbies and skill building are the way to go. I just finished a 12-month sabbatical during which I learned scuba, sailing, skiing, surfing, and the R programming language. I also read 40 non-fiction books. Just lying on the beach gets borin
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by hoodwink 10y ago
Have you also read Cialdini's timeless business classic _Influence_? If so, which would you recommend I start with?
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Is there any good science linking autophagy to intermittent fasting? Isn't that the theory behind fasting's benefits?
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Where can I get my hands on this computer training?
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I'd say I fall in this demographic. It helps that many jobs can now be performed remotely. The thing holding me back from small town mountain living was my career, but now with remote work I can relocate to where I'm happiest.

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