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by ismail 8y ago
Your manager is being vague. Either purposefully or not. If purposeful I would be concerned and ask why. If not, he is not very good at communicating. So. The next time he says that ask him: “what do you mean by talk like a leader not an en
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by ismail 8y ago
I believe you are doing your self a disservice. As you grow older and “wiser” you realise that your time is precious. So you understand the opportunity cost of reading a book. You should then choose books that are foundational that are ofte
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by ismail 8y ago
+1 reflecting back I think this is one of the books that has been key to changing my thinking. Was one of the first design book I read, but the lessons have been with me for the last decade+.
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by ismail 8y ago
Have not read the book. Could you elaborate? Here is what I have figured out regarding this topic. 1) most times what really matters to you is impossible to measure. When you drill down to core motivation/drives. E.g how does one meas
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by ismail 8y ago
“You need a phone, car, society to function and live a reasonably high quality of life.” Is that actually true? Yes that may be necessary in society Today. But does that = quality of life ?
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by ismail 8y ago
I dropped Mendely a year ago. Because it kept crashing and they could not resolve the issue. The bug has not closed since then. I was unable to extract my highlights. I tried mucking about in their SQLite dB. Tried zoetro but prefer using h
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by ismail 8y ago
Exactly. The other metaphor i see used often is you provide the scaffolding while they do the building.
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by ismail 8y ago
Please could you share your experiences? Did you face any of the concerns highlighted in these comments?
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by ismail 8y ago
“I would also caution potential homeschoolers to be mindful of how they frame their choice when they talk to their children. Making it about the child or taking a strong us v. them stance against other options can be very isolating for the
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by ismail 8y ago
Thanks for this. Rather then argue against SDE (self directed education) most of what you said above actually provides evidence for it. Will post a more detailed response from my laptop. 2. There seems to be some confusion in your understan
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by ismail 8y ago
Great points; “To a small enough child, reading is a "useless fact." After all, an illiterate child has gone his whole life without needing to know how to read” “Why waste time learning letters...” This is the point/philosoph
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by ismail 8y ago
“I would be careful. As a young child I was allowed to self-direct many aspects of my education (Montessori schools, permissive parents, etc.)“ Could you provide more detail On this? Did your parents involve you in their day to day activiti
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by ismail 8y ago
“Unschooling may result in illiteracy, social isolation, and difficulty to pursue areas of interests later in life” Do you have any reading on this? Even anecdata? All the reading I have done seems to indicate the exact opposite. Granted i
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by ismail 8y ago
The biggest take away for me personally is: We all have an inherent drive/desire to learn. It is why most of us learn to talk, walk, run with out any direct instruction. Yet school is based on a massive assumption which I had never que
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by ismail 8y ago
thanks. What do you think is broken with the current model? Added an Ask Hn for the question. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18878153
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Ask HN: Were you unschooled, or are you unschooling your children?
50 points by ismail 8y ago|39 comments
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by ismail 8y ago
Question: 1. Anyone considering or practicing unschooling/self directed education [0] for your children? 2. Were you home schooled/unschooled/practiced self directed education ? What’s your story? I am Considering this approa
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by ismail 8y ago
I recall Toronto had a labyrinth of passage ways under ground, with shops etc. It connected to the subway and it was very convenient. Guess they built under ground due to the weather?
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by ismail 8y ago
WhatsApp and other messaging apps have practically killed sms for personal one on one communications. The only thing still prepping up SMS is the bulk messaging such as notifications and marketing.
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by ismail 8y ago
The story may be simpler than initially thought. “Whereas the Bloomberg story singles out Supermicro servers, Mr. Appleboum’s sentiment is that this is an industrywide issue” Review the site at: https://www.sepio.systems/sol
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by ismail 8y ago
XDR is a highly efficient format, primarily used in telecoms We have a developer who has developed decoders in C. Ping me if you need details. See: https://www.tmforum.org/resources/standard/ipdrxdr-encoding-...
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by ismail 8y ago
Wow. “We made Google+ with privacy in mind and therefore keep this API’s log data for only two weeks.” The wording of this is really pushing the boundary of plausibility. I fail to understand the logic of how this would protect privacy? Ac
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by ismail 8y ago
+1 for South Africa
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by ismail 8y ago
Wow shows how my thinking has changed. I own a few Kafka books that are probably in a box somewhere. Was an avid reader in my teens. Yet when i read the title I expected a technical article on Kafka the software system. I last read Kafka so
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by ismail 8y ago
Yeah. Good point the effects will take several years to be demonstrated. So maybe a better comment would be, avoid FB for holding in the long term. Would you think they are sacrificing the long term for the short? I suspect we will get more
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by ismail 8y ago
Facebook is going to get worse and so is Zuckerberg. I would short FB if I had a position. The reasoning is, once you see a CEO installing loyal lieutenants. Who does not value conflicting, and opposing views. You know the company will loos
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by ismail 8y ago
I paid $1 on the App Store
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by ismail 8y ago
Wow. This is an amazing piece of investigative journalism and probably one of the reasons we should all be supporting an independent media.
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by ismail 8y ago
Does the ECB hold bonds for Danske bank? The ECB and other central banks have been on a bond buying [0] 'spree' [1] If the ECB holds these bonds then technically eu monetary union citizens do have exposure. To me this seems to hav
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by ismail 8y ago
Yep +1 for Drucker.

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