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by redschell 13y ago
For anyone interested, a link to photos of Harry Eastlack's skeleton: http://raregeneticdisorder.blogspot.com/2012/09/fop-skeleton... Wonderful article, as expected from Carl Zimmer, who does such a great job of exploring biological myste
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by redschell 13y ago
There are four or five poems I read almost every day as a sort of cathartic ritual Wonderful! I'd love to hear about them. I also have a few go-to poems for those days I feel unbalanced. The two I've probably digested the most would be
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by redschell 13y ago
You would imagine wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Academy 2096 for 2008. Even Phillips has underachievers, though they are still pretty damn good. You have inflated expectations because you associate yourself with like-minde
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by redschell 14y ago
I'm really not a big fan of the technical/nontechnical distinction. Here's a better idea: Be a useful co-founder. In your example, it would appear that our subject is not skilled, so the first thing they need to do is develop an edge that
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by redschell 14y ago
I hear you. Daniel Pink talks about this in his book Drive . Basically, when it comes to finding a wonderful career, mastery is a big deal. It's not the only factor you need to consider, but it's an important one. There are a lot of ha
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by redschell 14y ago
"How does it feel to be fired?" Wow. I hope you said something along the lines of "Well, since it means I no longer have to work with assholes like you, it feels pretty fucking good."
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by redschell 14y ago
Same here. That jwz piece really left an impression on me, so whenever I run into an article, like the TC one here, with some founder/VC/"serial entrepreneur" talking about culture or work ethic or some crap like that, I really have no cho
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by redschell 14y ago
It's probably not gonna happen this way, but my vision of the future is one where, after just about every career is automated, people take to their hobbies. However, there's a poem by Robert Frost that really makes me wonder why we don't j
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by redschell 14y ago
I just try to keep this classic treatise by George Orwell in circulation among my business friends: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
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by redschell 14y ago
It's definitely a bit disconcerting, but perhaps not in the way you mean. I'm not so worried about failing to achieve my dreams because I didn't get lucky. I'm worried I'll fail and never know if I failed because I was unlucky, or because
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by redschell 14y ago
I always thought it was a good idea to major in what you love and then minor or double major in something that can get you a leg up in the job hunt. So if psychology is your thing, and you're really serious about succeeding there, do a sec
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by redschell 14y ago
The idea of constant social feedback on just about everything brought this classic short story by the late John McCarthy to mind: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby...
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by redschell 14y ago
True, but look at the timeline for your daughter. Assuming she was recently born, and, given that few from a school like Penn would want to be a rural family physician, assuming she's going into an elite specialty (cardiology, neurology, o
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by redschell 14y ago
I didn't really interpret this as a knock against college. More like a cautionary tale about "entry-level" work in hyper-competitive industries that end ups amounting to slave labor with no future prospects to speak of. I really can't unde
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by redschell 14y ago
I'm all for drawing, and a lot of what is being advocated here, but I hope we at least make an attempt to consider things like programming and mathematics to be artistic/creative disciplines. I mean, there's a reason many universities inte
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by redschell 14y ago
Geez, you're only a year older than he was at the start of his Herculean effort. Get writing!
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by redschell 14y ago
I don't have any, but I do wonder if this is another reason why there's a bias towards younger founders (or at least the perception of one). You start a company at 25 after a few years of unfulfilling work, put your nose to the grindstone
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by redschell 14y ago
I'm pretty sure pg has an essay about this using writing as an example. It goes something like "If you want to be a writer, you need to find time to write." Or something like that. I know for startup founders, and most other creative pro
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by redschell 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by redschell 14y ago
I really hope these guys are in contact with the guys at Oculus. I feel like we're finally at the cusp of some incredible VR technology.
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by redschell 14y ago
I agree with some parts of your post, such as the challenges of evaluating students in more qualitative disciplines through a virtual medium, and disagree with others, such as the notion that the college experience, if I'm reading this righ
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by redschell 14y ago
LinkedIn, but for Cooking Definitely niche, but not bad. It might be cool to have a system like that for connecting young, promising Chefs with more established ones. I don't know too much about cooking, but I bet it's hard for Chefs to
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by redschell 14y ago
Early 30s? You might like this: “[Julius] Caesar served in 63 BC as a quaestor in Spain, where in Cadiz he is said to have broken down and wept in front of a statue of Alexander the Great, realizing that where Alexander had conquered most
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by redschell 14y ago
I'd argue he's overlooking some schools. Notably Chicago and Columbia, but also Duke, Dartmouth, and Berkeley. I'd also say Rice and Texas if you'd like to work in energy financing, USC and UCLA if entertainment is your game, and regional
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by redschell 14y ago
I know how you feel. I count my lucky stars that I consider Elon Musk a role model and Kim Kardashian a fat-assed clown.
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by redschell 14y ago
My initial reaction was similar, but, upon further reading, it appears that his only family, his mother, was in similarly dire straits, and thus the option of commuting from home to save money was not available.
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by redschell 14y ago
Wow, I had no idea Mathew Martoma frequented HN.
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by redschell 14y ago
I've never worked in consulting, but, so far as I know, the big, MBB consulting firms tend to incorporate most of the advised measures in tokenadult's post when evaluating potential employees. These measures include GMAT cut-offs, GPA cut-
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by redschell 14y ago
Can someone more worldly than I speak to any possible cultural factor here? By that I mean, is the desire to own property as deeply-rooted elsewhere in the world as it is, or at least seems to be, in America? Are people in Japan breaking
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by redschell 15y ago
To my surprise, Ed Witten, one of the preeminent physicists of our time, is quite gifted in public talks and interviews from what I've seen of him. You'd expect someone explaining string theory to laymen to throw in a few "ums," but they'r

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