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by q-base 10y ago
Not directly relating to her - but the book "Thich face, Black heart" comes to mind when thinking of "hard"/ruthless business/life philosophies from the Asian region. Depending on how you interpret the advice o
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Ask HN: Alternative to Dropbox Public folder
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"Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn." - of course you can't tell people how they should take your comments. But saying that you/he/she
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In my experience a huge part of burnout also comes from deriving all your sense of identity from one source. If you only identity yourself as a developer then you will probably sooner or later start questioning whether what you do is all th
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Thanks a million! Had to read the first line a few times, but then read through it all and understood the concept. Thank you very much for the thorough explanation.
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Looking forward to the discussion on this. Can anybody help me understand his use of "rent seeker" or "rent seeking"?
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And as long as the general consensus is that a good CEO can change everything, CEOs will be able to attract these contracts that has serious assymetric risk/benefit profiles.
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That book is quite high on my todo list - can you recommend it?
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I agree with the guy who already answered. Flow is the one I read and found super interesting.
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Renting also equals freedom. YES you may throw away money in the light of the ability to sell a property at equal or higher price than you payed. BUT you may also end up losing a lot of money or being bound to a property if market changes a
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From a corporate economic standpoint there is a lot to be gained by keeping that stigma. Moving out and starting your own household means buying a lot of stuff. You can't really target the opposite in any meaningful way that gives reve
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Deep Work sure is a great book, but I would recommend people with interest in the material just to go directly to Flow by Mihály Csikszentmihalyi. Read them one after the other, first Deep Work and then Flow. IF you are going to read both t
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+1 I was even quite a big fan of him before reading it - but wasn't expecting much from the book, or expecting it to be somewhat bland. But I really liked it and will absolutely read it again.
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Out of curiosity I had to look-up that one. Strong candidate for next indoor plant. Thanks! Even though I wasn't really looking for new plants and I admit that half of it sold me on the "Japanese" part :)
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No need to make such a big deal out of doing it or getting around to doing it. As someone else recommended take the free Headspace 10 day course or search Jon Kabat-Zinn, he has some videos where he teaches mindfulness in front of an audien
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Our innate insatiability brought us where we are today with all the subjective good or bad progress we have made as a species. As far as the young people thinking that the big city is the key to the good life. Couldn't it just be that
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Second this. Don't do it as regular as I usd to because I don't feel like the effect is as profound anymore. That is not to say that I don't feel like meditation works, but more to say that there seems to be a big change afte
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Shai Agassi of Better Place comes to mind: https://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-pl...
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He should have been a foot-soldier in the trenches of WWI - or more likely - just wants to appear as a badass.
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I have always just used the same hour long mixes on repeat. But will try this out and see. Thanks!
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Would like to know which one. Would like to read a book about him but just not sure whether any of the currents are any good or just put out there to ride on his current fame.
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No there are many good hours of reading for sure. This made me laugh: Ancient tale. There's this SR-71 Blackbird stooging around Cuba on a top-secret mission, at FL500+ and Mach 2+.... when they get a call requesting them to change hea
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There are lots of strange abbreviations - BUT - Caution very much needed. Only a few pages in, but how extremely fascinating and interesting! Thanks a lot!
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Coming from Denmark I can totally agree. Of course can't speak on behalf of US conditions, but NO we sure as hell haven't solved the redistribution problem here in Denmark. Haven't read the article you linked, but judging by
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There are some very interesting discussions on government and electorial constructs(for lack of better word) in different countries and pros and cons of these, in the comments here. Can anyone point to any good documentaries, books or other
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To the best of my knowledge, it's not enforced. And if it is, it is probably only when someone feels violated and as you say report it. I'm pretty sure the control is next to nonexistent.
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Cool project. You could end up with somewhat of a goldmine of data. Even with quite a bit of interest for the local government. Here in Denmark, they talked about making a register that the government could access in cases where the investi
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Sounds a lot like UK. As someone else pointed out - Europe is way to diverse to call as a single entity with this scope. Large cities in UK are quite heavily monitored, but if you look at Europe in general, then the surveillance is centered
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Because of eavesdropping on the output of set computer does not tell anything about who is making the actual request? Or are you implying that it will be possible to backtrack with this type of surveillance?
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You could probably sell just about anything to those under a FOMO umbrella.

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