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by qaexl 18y ago
Elements of Style teaches you how to write clearly and concisely. It doesn't teach you how to write a novel.
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by qaexl 18y ago
The buddahnet.net looks like it has some pretty good information. For a different take, check out Anne Wise's "High Performance Mind" http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Mind-Anna-Wise/dp/087... The former focuses on a form of meditati
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by qaexl 18y ago
Yeah, the Taiwanese with whom he competed with are pretty serious about Face. When I read the excerpt about it, I rolled my eyes and thought Ferris was full of it, claiming to be a national kickboxing champion. After reading the account, ho
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by qaexl 18y ago
That doesn't really have much to do with the article. It's actually about a freelancer trying three different time management techniques, including the ones found in 4HWK. It was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. In fact, the author said, "Ferr
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Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek(wired.com)
66 points by qaexl 18y ago|18 comments
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by qaexl 18y ago
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/17-01/mf_sel... "Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek"
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by qaexl 18y ago
I've been using a timer on the computer. I think a ticker might drive me nuts, but I get what you mean by the ticking sound. I've been using something similar for my meditative practice, only I use incense. I sit there until the entire stic
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by qaexl 18y ago
"In my opinion, no self-help guide applies for everyone; we all have our own strengths and vices." This one seems to work particularly well for me precisely beacause my perception of time fits better with the sequenced than the abstract. I
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by qaexl 18y ago
There's a few more things worth noting here. You track your interruptions. It is similar to the "trusted system" in the GTD system. It is also similar to meditative techniques where you let go of extraneous thoughts instead of trying to act
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by qaexl 18y ago
The timeboxing described here works well for me because it makes me just sit there and start. I've noticed doing that with other things. The reasoning is if I have to sit here anyways, might as well work. Just so you know, I set up my offic
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The Pomodoro Technique - stop procastinating and make deadlines your friend(tecnicadelpomodoro.it)
21 points by qaexl 18y ago|28 comments
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by qaexl 18y ago
GNOME and Xfree86 are huge git repositories. They "solved" the problem by using git submodules and their project has already been broken down into modules already. I'm not entirely satisfied with this approach, since it means a brand new de
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by qaexl 18y ago
Stem cell researches have found that in order to grow a healthy organ, the progenitor cells must be in a certain physical arrangement. For example, bladder stem cells won't produce a bladder unless it is in some sort of rough surface. The t
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by qaexl 18y ago
I know someone who was using graph algorithims to study biological phonomena. Given a set of correlations, say, Protein A correlates significantly with Protein B, but inversely proportional to Protein C, what is the minimal graph that descr
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Tunnelling Nanotubes: Life's Secret Network(newscientist.com)
10 points by qaexl 18y ago|4 comments
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by qaexl 18y ago
I think I didn't write the apprenticeship part very well. Choosing an apprenticeship for the 13-year-old is meant to give them a nudge. It doesn't matter if they pick it up or rebel against it. What matters is getting out of the home to see
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by qaexl 18y ago
If the 13-year-old already has his heart set on something, I'm not going to stop him. But I suspect, at least with the first generation, they're going to screw around ... just like the first two or three years of college. Chances are good t
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by qaexl 18y ago
I agree with Newt Gingrich's assessment of the problem. However, I don't like this solution, particularly within the context of http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/21/magazines/fortune/talent_col... (warning, very long article) and http://knowl
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by qaexl 18y ago
http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=learning-to-stay...
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SciAm: Learning to Stay Calm(sciam.com)
1 points by qaexl 18y ago|0 comments
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by qaexl 18y ago
I think most coders know this by now, particularly since multitasking on a single-core system merely involves some really fast context-switches. However, there is something that humans can do very well that is similar to multitasking, but i
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by qaexl 18y ago
True. The kind of things you want to accomplish if the money problem is solved should be things you are already working on; solving the money problem should just make accomplishing it faster.
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by qaexl 18y ago
(1) Practice martial arts 4hrs a day, and travel around the world preserving some lineages that are disappearing this generation. (1a) I want to meet some Khampas (1b) I want to meet some of my teacher's teachers in Taiwan. (1n) ad nauseum
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by qaexl 18y ago
I like the marketing material you have on the site to explain the different features. It looks patterned off of 37Signals, but hey, it works. I'm curious to what going up to random college students on campus and demoing the site to them on
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by qaexl 18y ago
Yeah, we haven't figured out how to do the chicken-and-the-egg problem yet. We've been promoting the site in our local area heavily, yet it hasn't "sparked" yet.
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Hackers & Backers: Because You Need Each Other(hackersandbackers.com)
4 points by qaexl 18y ago|2 comments
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by qaexl 18y ago
"If you have a bunch of money in stocks and savings, and no dependents, and you are going to die tomorrow, then it's rational to cash that all out and spend it in the most pleasurable way you can. (Or, if possible, spend it on figuring out
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by qaexl 18y ago
I was always told I was smart too ... and compared to my sister -- look at how hard she works! (I found out as an adult that she was always compared to me -- look at your brother, he is really smart! Now isn't that screwed up?). I was also
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by qaexl 18y ago
I'm using it as soon as I get a Linux version, stable or not. If the core is solid, then crashes will be confined to tabs. Of the three extensions I use, one is already built into Chrome (incognito mode), one is a proxy extension, and one i
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by qaexl 18y ago
With the feature set of WebKit + Gears + faster Javascript, as a developer, I'm much more likely to write apps against this platform. I am thinking specifically of distributing the Chrome browser with my app: User goes to the site and alrea

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