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by imperator 17y ago
I'm not sure. I hadn't thought about it until now, I was just so obsessed with getting it done. I don't see why not. I want everyone to benefit from my activities. I could even do a tutorial on my blog explaining the decisions I made while
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by imperator 17y ago
That's a great article. Thank you. Even if as your link says, that there are adverse responses by some people to creativity, there will be others who are receptive. Along that path of creativity-inclined people is where I think my prize mon
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by imperator 17y ago
Democratically run businesses are companies with a lot of group autonomy, policies that are set by consensus of groups instead of through top-down hierarchical edicts, and there is a network of co-evaluation instead of just bosses being the
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by imperator 17y ago
This is a prize that I put together over the past couple of days. It is inspired by the Network Challenge that DARPA hosted, and that MIT won in such a cool fashion. I am very poor at pursuing jobs in traditional ways, and often times get d
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A Job Prize Inspired by the MIT Darpa Network (Balloon) Challenge Solution(jobprize.heroku.com)
34 points by imperator 17y ago|9 comments
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by imperator 17y ago
This is reminiscent of the Dymaxion Map developed by Buckminster Fuller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
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If Bill Cosby Trusts the TI-99, So Do I(mainbyte.com)
1 points by imperator 17y ago|0 comments
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by imperator 17y ago
It may be useful to find out more about yourself. Try going to http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/Default.aspx and taking the VIA Strengths Survey. Positive Psychologists have found that focusing on your top strengths better prom
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by imperator 17y ago
This idea was inspired by this post, http://www.nearsoft.com/blog/wave-is-to-interaction-as-the-b... , which I think puts Google Wave into context.
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ActuallyHard, The Wave-Based Search Engine(primevector.wordpress.com)
4 points by imperator 17y ago|2 comments
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by imperator 17y ago
Scheduling my day the night before in Google Calendar. And then when I don't meet the schedule, I alter it so that the schedule then becomes a journal. It offers amazing perspective and turns vague concepts like when I got to sleep, and whe
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How Understanding Our Strengths Improves Us(primevector.wordpress.com)
3 points by imperator 17y ago|0 comments
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by imperator 17y ago
I would change it. A better title could be good for its own sake, instead of just being provocative.
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by imperator 17y ago
All of our comments may work for us, but there will be something that works for you, and that will have to do with putting whatever is out of balance for you back into a place so you can be healthy, happy and focused. I find meditation rela
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by imperator 17y ago
Working hard is hardly work when you are operating from the basis of your strengths. If you have a group of coworkers whose strengths are your weaknesses, than it is very easy to enter into a state of flow. Working on which right things is
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by imperator 17y ago
I wrote this short story because I enjoy the culture on Hacker News and because I was reading Maslow on Management. In the Maslow book, he was talking about the psychological importance of entrepreneurs to a society, and even recommended so
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Written for HN: The Robe of Entrepreneurship, a Short Story(primevector.wordpress.com)
14 points by imperator 17y ago|2 comments
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Experimental Spiral Reading App and Potential Help to Dyslexics (with source)(dropby.com)
2 points by imperator 17y ago|0 comments
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by imperator 17y ago
If you are interested in democratic and effective companies this is a great story. I wish more companies had a culture like Semco. Strong leadership should never go out the door, but autocracy should.
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by imperator 17y ago
It is poorly edited, but full of excellent content. The author should release it to a wiki so that some enthusiasts can clean up the typos and other formatting issues. I keep referring back to it. I think it would be good to read in paralle
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by imperator 18y ago
The reasons are manifold. 1. They took every lesson from every MMORPG before them, and put it into WoW. This means things like PvP flags, and not having death exact a heavy toll. This was not obvious to WoW's predecessors. Generally, Blizza
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Asynchronous Social Context(primevector.wordpress.com)
1 points by imperator 18y ago|0 comments
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by imperator 18y ago
Perhaps a new saying should be posed, "You get what you and your environment put in."
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by imperator 19y ago
So one might say that an optimal size of a business is 150 - family members - external to business friends - significant acquaintances. With various employees being more or less numerically involved in a company.
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by imperator 19y ago
1. Systems Theory with Buckminster Fuller and Russell Ackoff. 2. Recursion, not just in programming, but in other parts of nature. 3. Memory and social size approximations, such as memory chunking in seven plus or minus two, and Dunbar's nu
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by imperator 19y ago
I did not intend the term to reference venture as in venture capital, but a venture regarding a hazardous attempt. Perhaps "Startup Expediter" is less misleading to those who see the word venture not in its original sense, but as related t
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by imperator 19y ago
The shortest description of Y Combinator I can think of is a "Venture Expediter"
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by imperator 19y ago
Samurai Swords, which was formally called Shogun. You battle for control over feudal Japan. Unlike Risk, you don't have armies on every territory. Rather, you have three armies that you decide the composition of, and you leave garrisons in
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by imperator 19y ago
No degree. Taught myself how to code when I was kid. Started a Computer Engineering degree, but I would get bored and stopped going to class. Switched to Econ, but never finished that. Started taking classes I wanted in an order and groupin
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by imperator 19y ago
Go to as many events with open atmospheres as possible. For example, http://ruby.meetup.com/99/?gj=sj2 (Ruby meetup) http://superhappydevhouse.org/ (Hacker Party, not sure when we're having our next one) If you have a blog, ask a hacker

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