pcmaffey

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by pcmaffey 10y ago
It's more than just the absence of community. The real sorrow comes from a culture that actively encourages us to abandon community in favor of striving for personal gain. Community is there and possible. We just don't know how to
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by pcmaffey 10y ago
Really interesting counterposition of the terms "reflex" and "reflect". Both share the same etymological root and core meaning, but through application have mirrored distinctions that make them perfectly beautiful opposi
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> the people who have the most time and energy to invest in discussions (which eventually snowball into flame wars) are the people who aren't actually doing the actual work. Pretty sure we've reached peak-discussion. Future onl
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It's a delicate balance, for sure. Focus on product until you have something that really works. But don't fall into the 'build it, and they will come' trap. As a side note: the new UI for blog.ycombinator is really ...un
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by pcmaffey 10y ago
Football (and any pro sports) teams run retrospectives after every game. They watch tons of video, seeking to learn what they were doing, what challenges they were struggling with, and how to improve.
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"For the ordinary person everything is a blessing or a curse, for the warrior there are only challenges."
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One idea in response to your problem, not your question: read everything onscreen out loud. Will slow down your mental processor to communication speed, by teaching you to listen to yourself. I used to do this with books. Very different, re
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At the same time, completely locking down your opponent is the most fun way to win.
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medium.com
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Visualizing the evolution of individual scientific impact(barabasilab.com)
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Show HN: A micronotes app for tracking progress(bicycl.com)
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Principles of Construction(medium.com)
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The whole point of equity is to measure what's invested. You could be doing 20% of the current work of a company, but that does not account for all the past contributions that got the company there in the first place. Equity is granted
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Also, testicular navigation was a thing. More sensitive current detection...
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Grocery stores are the absolute best venues for people-watching. When traveling especially, the best way to get a sense of the people in a new place is to spend time at their grocery store.
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I'm wondering who in the hell sits down all day in front of a blindingly bright screen, alone, clicking away to make games and tools that get other people to sit down all day in front of their computers... So they can afford to pay for
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by pcmaffey 10y ago
> If I'm a storyteller, it's because I listen Becoming good at anything, especially writing, is a practice in developing your attention. 1) Listen and Notice what's going on around you every day. Keep a daily journal of yo
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Engineering and Art are siblings on the path of knowledge.
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Develop your own rituals. You have to replace the 'going to the office' structure and routine with something that works for you. That you can slip into and easily get into work mode. For some people, that means getting dressed up.
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by pcmaffey 10y ago
Indeed, it's not just about getting things done. It's about creating meaning through our actions. Only we, individually, can define what's meaningful to us, and even then, that process of understanding and evolving our desire
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Show HN: Bicycl – Track your life's work(bicycl.com)
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"And to speak of solitude again, it becomes clearer and clearer that fundamentally this is nothing that one can choose or refrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all. Bu
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It's called the American dream for a reason.
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Also, when you're changing tasks, it's important to reclaim your attention from the previous task, so it can be fully reallocated. More than just crossing off a task and taking a break, I take a moment to really notice my progress
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by pcmaffey 10y ago
You're doing a disservice to astrology. MBTI is a subjective categorization. Astrology is more like your DNA. You're born with a specific set pattern. Just like we don't understand what most of our genetic patterns mean, we d
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I'd love to see a Trending section added. Something in between the front page and New sections. I often rely on comments to determine whether I want to read an article, but the New section has none. The front page on the other hand, is
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For a headline that explicitly excludes the 3rd essential component of growing (light, water, nutrients), the article mentions nothing about how these plants are getting nutrients. I assume they're supplementing liquid nutrients, as th
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Machine learning does not have less bias than human researchers. It is simply magnified at scale. And that scale is exactly the state of the internet. There is so much data available to study and understand, that we absolutely need better t
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It's a good question, and really, the crux of the whole issue. I don't have evidence, just belief... The value of incremental knowledge, and of lives lived without scarcity consciousness, when measured across large enough time-sca
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So long as journalists are paid with ad dollars, content will always trend towards the lowest common denominator. This applies to all media in general; but there really needs to be a better metric for quantifying impact than clicks. If writ

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