kareemm

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by kareemm 17y ago
> What I'm wondering about is whether otherwise undamaged people who repress their emotions eventually go nuts, or whether people who control their emotions end up in control of their emotions. imho the opposite of repressing one's emot
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by kareemm 17y ago
sleep. exercise. eat healthily. spent time with great friends. most importantly, put time aside to spend dealing with the emotions that come up. don't bottle them up. they will be expressed in destructive ways when you least expect it.
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by kareemm 17y ago
living in another country gives you the opportunity to reinvent yourself and exposes you to different ideas. it's up to you whether you embrace those opportunities or not. nothing engenders positive change. it only happens if you choose t
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by kareemm 17y ago
+1. living in another country helped me expose and get rid of some of the bad habits i've wanted to get rid of, and start doing new thing i've wanted to do as well. you probably won't know many people, and this removes a lot of the obligati
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by kareemm 17y ago
i have bank acct's in canada and the us. take out $ in foreign currency using my ATM (they generally give you the best rate). if you meant something else by "issues", let me know :)
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by kareemm 17y ago
> The pyramid is necessary for managing responsibilities and decision making. It's actually one way of making decisions and managing responsibilities. It's likely the most common because it evolved from the manufacturing-era model (t
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by kareemm 17y ago
True. There is a lot of irony to making it difficult for motivated immigrants to work in the US. When I started a company in the US by partnering with an American - which was the only way I could legally work for my company, despite it bei
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by kareemm 17y ago
Studies show that beyond making enough to covers the basics (shelter, food, etc) more money has declining marginal returns. In fact, in the longest (and on-going) study about what makes us happy ( http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200906
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by kareemm 17y ago
I know a bunch of guys straight out of college who do this, quite successfully. There are a lot of degenerates in the online poker scene, but these kids all have their heads screwed on straight and are using poker as a means to travel and
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by kareemm 17y ago
I am living this life right now. Lived (mostly) in Vancouver and Buenos Aires last year (with 1 month stops in LA, NY, and Toronto, and purely fun travel to Antarctica, Ireland and South Africa). In 09 I've been to India (vacation), London
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by kareemm 18y ago
i heard about the humanscale liberty from this slate comparison of office chairs: http://www.slate.com/id/2131646/ i liked it better than the humanscale freedom, but ymmv. the liberty is beautifully designed - it uses your own bodyweight
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by kareemm 18y ago
we used dnsmadeeasy at my last startup and had absolutely no problems. it was set-and-forget, which is why i'd recommend them now.
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by kareemm 18y ago
i ended up following this model exactly, tho haven't bought property yet. i am writing this from buenos aires and am heading to cape town on sunday for 3w, then india. i was a developer at a couple of big media companies for 4y. ended up le
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by kareemm 18y ago
you're right, the signals' products are usable, but they could definitely be better. i've yet to meet a website that couldn't be improved by watching customers and translating that feedback into an improved experience. totally discounting
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by kareemm 18y ago
this is 100% true. when we hired a developer at edufire.com, the ad ripped the phrase "web 2.0" and said if you were interested in building a real business that would change the world, you should get in touch. we got about 15 resumes, hal