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The Engineer’s Lament(newyorker.com)
248 points by nate 11y ago|144 comments
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Constrained(signalvnoise.com)
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Combine(signalvnoise.com)
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Stuck again(signalvnoise.com)
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by nate 12y ago
> Still, he now sees that it wasn’t so much the elevator that changed him as his reaction to it. It's crazy how our interpretation of the events around us is even more potent than the event itself. Some people could have gone throug
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Monsters and Thieves(signalvnoise.com)
2 points by nate 12y ago|0 comments
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Why You Should Keep Going, Even in the Face of Rejection(fastcolabs.com)
1 points by nate 12y ago|0 comments
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by nate 12y ago
Nathan is me! :) I put out a lot about who I am here: http://ninjasandrobots.com/ Basically just a guy trying to make businesses. Some work out, some don't. Lately I've been working on Draft ( http://dra
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by nate 12y ago
Thanks for reading my article! And thanks for the insight here. I really wasn't trying though to make it part of my thesis that you should have a terrible childhood in order to create a non-anxious state to make yourself more observant
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by nate 12y ago
That's a really great point. However, I think there's still a lot of value studying a guy like James Garner and people who are the best. I've actually studied acting for years. I've seen a lot of terrible actors and peop
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by nate 12y ago
Oh, I like that. Thank you very much!
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Now That I've Created Something, How Do I Spread It?(fastcolabs.com)
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The Brilliance of Louis C.K.'s Emails(theatlantic.com)
1 points by nate 12y ago|0 comments
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by nate 12y ago
Two other interesting recent articles on crowd behavior: 1) Why can't we be better at predicting successes? (movies, music, etc.) Turns out when the crowd has social information thrown at them (previous number of downloads shown in lis
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What are you drawing, Lily?(ninjasandrobots.com)
1 points by nate 12y ago|0 comments
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by nate 12y ago
Interesting. I didn't realize cinnamon metabolized to sodium benzoate. I've actually been trying to avoid sodium benzoate, especially in soft drinks because of worry what that preservative could possibly be doing to us (especially
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The Art of the Ask(betabeat.com)
1 points by nate 12y ago|0 comments
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by nate 12y ago
What I find interesting about mentioning the Cadillac ad and workaholism, is how Ford actually found workaholism decreased the efficiency of his workers: > On January 5, 1914, the Ford Motor Company took the radical step of doubling pay
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by nate 12y ago
This is a tangent, but I had a similar reaction to Honest company (baby products) and cancelling. My wife signed up to their trial subscription delivery thing for diaper for our newborn. This is Jessica Alba's company. We sign up for t
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by nate 12y ago
Chicago. :) The Lyft scenario was definitely cringeworthy. The lean startup questions outside the cafe weren't. I think it was good hustle and effort. They weren't pushy at all and handled "no, need to get baby back home&quot
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by nate 12y ago
Yeah, and if it's not, it should be. It was a very uncomfortable ride. I take Lyft because it's so much friendlier and cleaner than cabs, but that ride had the opposite effect. On another tangent though, being a Lyft driver might
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by nate 12y ago
Related: I had a Lyft ride recently where the driver the entire ride was trying to sell me health and life insurance. And he had clearly done this before and it was all part of his ride. He had a stack of cards right there on his dash ready
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Dots(ninjasandrobots.com)
1 points by nate 12y ago|0 comments
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How can I find someone to help me?(ninjasandrobots.com)
1 points by nate 12y ago|0 comments
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by nate 12y ago
Hello. Thanks for the feedback on the post! I definitely wasn't assuming that when I wrote it. In fact, what I was trying to show was a simple framework for looking at processes in the world and improving them. And if some folks can c
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How to get business ideas – remove steps(ninjasandrobots.com)
147 points by nate 12y ago|71 comments
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by nate 12y ago
If you're into this type of thing, this is another neat story - Andy Warhol playing with a Mac for the first time at a party Steve Jobs went to http://davidsheff.com/article/the-night-steve-jobs-met-andy-...
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Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club discovers unknown Andy Warhols(cmu.edu)
36 points by nate 12y ago|14 comments
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A 40 billion dollar t-shirt(ninjasandrobots.com)
1 points by nate 12y ago|0 comments
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How to get free, pre-released copies of your favorite authors' new books(ninjasandrobots.com)
1 points by nate 12y ago|0 comments

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