joshrule

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by joshrule 16y ago
Unlike a lot of articles reporting on science, this one doesn't make any gigantic claims. They note that morality can be manipulated in the lab, not that scientists have cured evil or that science has found a way to reprogram your mind. Eve
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Newport makes a really interesting argument in this post. He practically reduces motivation to getting started early on projects which you have a good reason for doing. I certainly understand the 'good reason' part, but the 'getting star
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I really appreciate guides like these, particularly because I'm preparing for graduate school myself. Another really helpful read was "Getting What You Came For" by Robert Peters. He walks through the entire Ph.D. process and describes a pi
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When science isn't driven at least in part by problem solving, there's a tendency to wander off into interesting but arcane fields with little potential for application any time soon. You can argue that eventually all science will be useful
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Chrome OS is just another step in the division of labor. Instead of managing our data ourselves, it pushes us even further than most other products so far to let others take care of it for us. It'll be there when we want it, and probably be
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More likely, an anti-correlation, since we all took time to at least glance over the article...
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I wasn't alive during the time most of the achievements you mention really hit their stride. But, I wonder, was the national focus turned on those things, or did they become important only in retrospect? I'm sure everyone watched coverage o
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I seen What Technology Wants mentioned several times now around the web. Is it really that interesting, or is it just riding some hype?
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I'm especially interested in the statistic that great performers rarely spend more than 4.5 hours/day on their craft. I believe it, but I wonder where he pulls that number from. Any ideas? It's the sort of thing that seems especially import
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I'd guess that there's some irreducible complexity that leaves the number of key traits to excellence at X > 1. If you figure it out, though, be sure to report back.
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It's a great analogy if for no other reason than that it frees your mind to think about more important things than stuff. If we keep at hand only what we regularly need, and put the rest 'in storage', we'll probably be able to spend a lot m
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I wonder if this rule translates into other domains as well? That is, does a violinist become noticeable after 1 000 hours, but only a true master after 10 000 hours? Also, we should never forget that these X hours rules are speaking to X h
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I like this idea that if you don't feel like an imposter, you're probably not challenging yourself enough. It rings true with my experience starting a blog without much design or web experience ( http://wayofthescholar.com ) and diving into
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You're right. 'Be passionate' is great advice. But, we need to realize two things: 1. Passion is not something we discover. It's something we cultivate over time. 2. Being effective involves more than being passionate. But, it's nearly impo
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While I've spent years reading this message in various places (most recently at http://mnmlist.com and http://farbeyondthestars.com ), I'm always refreshed by it. Perhaps it's not the author's main point, but living lightly means we have
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How exactly does the commonplace book differ from a journal or ubiquitous capture? Are they simply the most interesting journals of past centuries?
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As always, a major key, if not the major key, to success is to be useful to other people. If they don't understand what you have to offer, you'll have a very hard time being useful. This article is, though, a neat illustration of that bas
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As someone just starting up their first website ( http://wayofthescholar.com ), there's a lot of helpful material here, and a lot I still need to work through. Although each item may be obvious and discussed in greater depth a thousand othe
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Part of almost every scientific paper is the 'discussion'. Here, the scientists discuss what the implications of their findings are. This portion of the paper is always up for further debate (hence the title 'discussion'). So, given some op
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I appreciate the good news from Google, but I've often wondered why PDFs are so important in 'academic and scientific circles'. It seems that some sort of HTML solution would ultimately work better. It's certainly a very flexible format, ea
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How does this method out perform a plaintext task list including projects? It seems that having so many notes staring me in the face all the time would make it exceedingly difficult to focus on the actual task in front of me. A notebook or
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The message in this piece isn't new, but needs to be listened to more often. Success is measured in terms of months or years, not minutes or hours. One quick extension to the post: Consistency doesn't come by building a cage in which you ar
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Actually, Kasparov is doing somewhere around 200 trillion operations in his head every moment, not merely 100 billion. His brain isn't single-purpose, though, as Deep Blue is. The brain, as Montague points out, does all sorts of things cons
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Free enterprise is a clever system, because it reduces all the value that goes into a product or service to one figure, cost. Instead of understanding a business's environmental policy, its supply chain, its manufacturing technology, and so
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As for (3), the carbon fiber wheels are there, according to the video, to make it easier to build them yourself. The designer wants people to be able to rebuild wheels to fit current trends and/or changing riding conditions. According to th
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According to the video, the bike weighs 27kg, which seems a bit heavy for easy pedaling. Add in all your daily luggage and you're pedaling around with something like 35-50kg of extra weight. Except in really flat areas, that seems like a lo
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Right on. People who care enough to act when mistreated are becoming increasingly rare, it seems. Plenty are willing to complain, but complaining is not really acting. It's pointing out a problem, not trying to fix it. The question is, tho
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Taken with the recent http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843491 , I'm a bit concerned. As time moves forward, shouldn't we be setting the bar higher, not continually dropping it lower and lower? Why, in so many areas, are standards slidi
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In addition to talking about the good and bad of elite educations, Deresiewicz's piece also strongly praises the traditional liberal arts degree. He seems to think it far more valuable than more practical degrees. But, I'm not convinced.
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A resource that has been of great help in staving off these feelings of helplessness (they come and go, and are always intense and overwhelming) has been Cal Newport's blog at http://calnewport.com/blog . Some of his biggest ideas: - passi

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