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by itmag 15y ago
"Self-help doesn't work for a lot of reasons." Okay, so what is the proper way to live then? To be miserable, not try to transcend one's limitations, never seek to improve oneself, etc? It may seem like I'm arguing against a strawman here,
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by itmag 15y ago
People who don't want to read self-help books boggle my mind. Self-help to me means seeing life as an MMORPG with infinite possibility: levelling up your player character, meeting cool guild mates, acquiring lots of loot, exploring new area
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by itmag 15y ago
EXCELLENT thread. Here's my addition: http://tempobook.com/ It's by the most excellent Venkatesh Rao: http://www.ribbonfarm.com
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by itmag 15y ago
Check into the concepts of super empowerment, systems disruption and 5GW (as popularized on John Robb's Global Guerillas blog). http://dreaming5gw.com/5gw_lexicon/s/super-empowered-individ... http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/ Kul att
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by itmag 15y ago
Who let the dogs out?
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by itmag 15y ago
I don't think matching algorithms will EVER work, short of human-level AI. The only matching algorithm that works is the human brain. So, I think that the right way to go is to just increase the speed and accuracy with which a human can loo
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by itmag 15y ago
While some here would probably see you as just a glue coder who lacks true understanding, I at least want to applaud you. You've established a beach head in the realm of coding; all the fancy understanding of eg recursive combinators, mallo
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by itmag 15y ago
I have the same problem, I have shit tons of ideas yet I don't know how to begin. I am a programmer btw. All I know is that my preferred domain is skill acquisition / coaching / e-learning / personal development. Free ideas 'r' us: http://
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by itmag 15y ago
Oh and you're correct about accelerated learning being my focus. If I got to pick, I would do something like Skillshare but with a new twist. Ideas are welcome!
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by itmag 15y ago
Hacking Chinese is my buddy's web site. I proposed to him that we do a startup, but he has no time for it.
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Reading manga for more than just pleasure(hackingchinese.com)
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by itmag 15y ago
What kind of skills/training are necessary to do research on stuff like this? I can imagine few things that are more worthwhile (and probably stimulating to work on as well).
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by itmag 15y ago
Well, HN isn't solely about startups and programming. I mainly think it's interesting from a social engineering / human-hacking perspective, and from a self-improvement angle.
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by itmag 15y ago
What are you seeking in a co-founder?
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by itmag 15y ago
What are your house rules regarding bringing over friends, playing guitar, staying up late, fapping, etc? :)
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by itmag 15y ago
The question is, does an offer like this seem totally slave-labor lame and offensive, or does it sound like a unique opportunity to work on a project that we plan to take national and then global from a groovy location? Heh, I am already
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by itmag 15y ago
You would fly someone in from Sweden and pay for their room & board + equity? Doesn't sound so bad to me. I might know a few people interested in this. Contact me :)
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by itmag 15y ago
You can contact me and I will forward :)
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race - uber-pessimist philosophy(grimreviews.blogspot.com)
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by itmag 15y ago
As someone who yearns to start an education start-up I think this is very good reading. TL;DR from Quora: Most entrepreneurs in education build the wrong type of business, because entrepreneurs think of education as a quality problem. The
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by itmag 15y ago
It doesn't sound interesting to me, but I might know a guy.
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by itmag 15y ago
Agreed. There are many different domains of eliteness. Elite for me means interesting, impactful work in a free, relaxed setting where I get to grow my skills and put cool projects under my belt.
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Open Source Ventures by John Robb(vimeo.com)
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by itmag 15y ago
I am a self-help junky, and I am trying to get started with meditation currently. Here's a bunch of meditations I found, from the author of "Buddha's Brain": https://sites.google.com/site/psychospiritualtools/ His web site: http://www.wi
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Hacking Chinese: a sino-centric language learning blog(hackingchinese.com)
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by itmag 15y ago
"The up-shot of all of this is that any computer program complete with arithmetic functions, boolean/propositional logic, list processing, etc. (i.e., Turing complete) can be expressed as a sequence of these base combinators. " Now, that is
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by itmag 15y ago
What's a good standard to aim for, for those people who don't wish to be counted among boilerplate hacks and beer-swilling hipsters? Learn algos really well, I guess? Hack on C/C++?
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by itmag 15y ago
That's interesting, as that's my preferred idea as well. I am really really good at finding people in various niches and getting them to do stuff (in my case, getting them to write articles for my magazine for free). So I can probably get a
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by itmag 15y ago
Way cool!
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by itmag 15y ago
Tack!

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