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by mattm 13y ago
You should probably ask people who manage restaurants rather than people on HN.
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A School With No Teachers, Where Students Teach Themselves(blogs.kqed.org)
101 points by mattm 13y ago|57 comments
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by mattm 13y ago
> I didn't realize that day was the day that my World of Warcraft subscription was up I no longer allow any automatic payments from my bank account because of this issue. Maybe one is ok but if you start to have 5 or 6 monthly payme
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by mattm 13y ago
Conversations with God
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by mattm 13y ago
If you believe it, then so be it.
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Why You Should Stop Working at Noon Everyday(seanogle.com)
3 points by mattm 13y ago|1 comments
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by mattm 13y ago
Well for one thing, your body is trying to prepare yourself for sleep. So naturally, you feel more relaxed and don't get as energized by the distractions that are available to you. If you're having trouble focusing during the day,
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by mattm 13y ago
There's basically two things I've found that put up obstacles for me - 1) not being focused on the task at hand and 2) having expectations of how things will turn out. For the first one, once you give into those little temptations
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by mattm 13y ago
If you really hated to be that guy, you wouldn't have said anything.
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by mattm 13y ago
> I really don't care if your wife can solve 2x=4 for x, but I would be unhappy to be under her care if she would give up on complicated situations (oh he's not breathing AND no pulse? I'll just give up), or refuses to not
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by mattm 13y ago
And why is calculus or statistics important. My wife hated math and even would get 0 on some tests and yet she is a very successful nurse today. Math is not important at all for the vast majority of adults today. Why should children be forc
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by mattm 13y ago
Semco in Brazil has been doing this for over 20 years and they are not a small company.
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by mattm 13y ago
I think a lot of people never really know the true reasons why something happens. I find it hard to believe these were only three reasons. Did you ask the investors why they invested and this is what they said or is it your own feeling? Plu
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by mattm 13y ago
This post doesn't really say much at all. I think he is leaving out a lot of information.
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by mattm 13y ago
And why is the body not capable of doing the same things at 70? Is it because you overworked it earlier on?
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by mattm 13y ago
I think this is common and many of us have gone through it. If you once had passion for programming it could still be within you. Without knowing your situation, it could be that you have been working too much or focusing on the outcome too
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The Story of Japan's 'Lost Decades' was a Hoax(forbes.com)
116 points by mattm 13y ago|92 comments
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by mattm 13y ago
I'm curious, do you find you have had more or less success with your projects because of it? Do you have any projects where users pay money?
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by mattm 13y ago
From the book "Learned Optimism": "There is considerable evidence that depressed people, though sadder, are wiser" HN has a lot of smart people on it. It also highlights very different lives from the average person. S
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by mattm 13y ago
You're right that the tools will not help you enjoy programming more. If you really feel that you'd still like to do programming because it's possible that you can enjoy it, it could be that you are always trying to recreate
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Launching an Info Course part 2: MVP Style(mattmccormick.ca)
2 points by mattm 13y ago|0 comments
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by mattm 13y ago
Like a lot of good advice, this is easy to say but sometimes difficult to implement. But it's good to be reminded of this. When you say "If I only had X, I could do Y" what you are really telling yourself is that now, you c
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by mattm 13y ago
To play devils advocate, pretty much every new CEO or owner says the same thing.
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by mattm 13y ago
Completely different in regards to tech. She got her first email address just 4 years ago and doesn't really understand what I do for work. Most importantly though we share the same values and sense of humor. So it doesn't hurt in
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by mattm 13y ago
This is the best comment I have read on HN in quite a while! It reminds me of a story from one of Malcolm Gladwell's books. I forget the point he was trying to make but something went wrong with a patients surgery so he approached a l
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by mattm 13y ago
I can relate to this. You sound like you just learn things incredibly fast so you can get by doing much less than other people. Why not just accept it? You're the type of person who is more like a sprinter than a marathoner intellec
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by mattm 13y ago
I've never understood porters in hotels. You've just transported your bags for possibly thousands of miles and many hours but they are going to take them the last few meters to your room by elevator on a cart and then they expect
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by mattm 13y ago
There's no such thing as motivation. Most likely you are just giving into distractions. These distractions are there to test you as to how much you actually want to finish the thing you are working on. It comes as a result of lookin
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Launching an Info Course part 1: Overcoming Doubt(mattmccormick.ca)
1 points by mattm 13y ago|0 comments
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by mattm 13y ago
When you're deep inside a problem of many years, sometimes the simple solutions get easily overlooked.

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