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by rvn1045 8y ago
there is another similar one that i use: https://www.progressbarosx.com/
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by rvn1045 8y ago
What about regretting your behaviour or how you treated someone
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by rvn1045 8y ago
Allocate a fixed amount of time at whatever cadence you like and stick to that. whipping out your phone everytime your bored has a net negative effect, no matter what insights you may glean during a particular instance.
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by rvn1045 8y ago
do something else productive while your procrastinating on this task.
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by rvn1045 8y ago
How does this work from the other side? are there people discussing they should collectively exclude someone? what are the conversations that are taking place. I have never been on the other side, so would like to see a perspective from the
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by rvn1045 8y ago
Shashi Tharoor an Indian politician has written a book about this as well. There is this narrative within India (among many hindus and advocated by hindu nationalist political parties such as the bjp) that the muslim empire of the Mughals h
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by rvn1045 8y ago
In vipassana meditation the meditator focuses on sensations on the body from head to toe, systematically moving down top to bottom and noticing the sensations in each part - head, eyes, ears, nose, shoulders etc. when thoughts arise you not
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by rvn1045 8y ago
I don't see how someone conciously chooses different domains and becomes good at them. this isint a strategy that can be followed. what ends up happenning with people who are pretty good at a lot of things is that - they start doing so
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by rvn1045 8y ago
consider a private equity company that can borrow money in the us at extremely low rates, take this money and invest it in an emerging market country like India or china or wherever. even if they don't add any value to the company they
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by rvn1045 8y ago
while it is true that you can easily switch from uber to Lyft or vice versa, there are only two of them. so they do have moats. its not easy for a new competitor to emerge unless they are doing something different like perhaps driverless ca
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by rvn1045 8y ago
Yeah I’ve had terrible focus and attention span for a long time. It can improve dramatically but takes time to get to crazy long hours per day. Deep work suggestions are good, don’t use the internet too much etc. but for me the biggest diff
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by rvn1045 8y ago
life a lot more fun if your improving at what your doing. if your playing golf and over the course of the year you improve and hit the ball farther and more accurately - or you life weights and you get stronger, or your coding stuff and yo
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by rvn1045 8y ago
I think the thinking behind not asking about your background and looking at your resume etc - is that these things can introduce a bias. By asking for particular types of questions and training their interviewers in a particular way they ar
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by rvn1045 8y ago
Didnt the creator of home-brew not end up getting a job at google?
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by rvn1045 8y ago
Im doing pretty much the same thing since the beginning of the year. the absolute biggest thing thats helped me is meditating for 1-2 hours a day. when you don't have distractions and you have meditated for that long - you get laser li
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by rvn1045 8y ago
The article only states that the share of venture capital deployed in the United States is declining and not the total amount. The total amount is increasing. This is to be expected and this is not surprising by any means. Article states th
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by rvn1045 8y ago
succinctly put. a simple insight that can take years to figure out.
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by rvn1045 8y ago
life forms are just collections of atoms from a few elements. these elements exist all over the universe, no reason to think they would not have somehow combined to form life forms else where. I personally don't like the attitude of th
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by rvn1045 9y ago
Would the cat be able to keep tracking of 3 or more bowls?
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by rvn1045 11y ago
Friedman had not won the Nobel prize during the time of this writing. Only later did he gain prominence and influence the economic policy making of several countries.
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by rvn1045 11y ago
Love the idea! Always wanted to do something with news and the map. Really cool way of visualizing whats going on around the world!
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by rvn1045 11y ago
It's 25 standard deviations because they only take like a year's data into account. So anything that happens and seems out of the ordinary for that particle date range will show up as 25 standard deviations. If you've read ab
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by rvn1045 12y ago
Why is this even news?? This happens at pretty much every top tier private/public university. Colleges price discriminate between people of different incomes. The true cost per student is not 50k at a private school, it's probably
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by rvn1045 12y ago
whoever has said they've led a happy life, surely hasn't faced death yet.
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by rvn1045 12y ago
This is exactly the problem discussed in the book. Docotors are not equiped in dealing with end of life issues, something that has to change.
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by rvn1045 12y ago
whats the difference? they're hiring from the same pool.
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by rvn1045 12y ago
Maybe the relationship between being mean and successful is the opposite? Being successful makes people less mean, because they are already successful and don't need to be mean. Bill Gates was known to be quite ruthless during his time
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by rvn1045 12y ago
'This seems like the future to me – large groups of independent companies, loosely tied together.' This could also work against YC (Or many startups in the valley) very easily. I mean all these companies are being created in a tim
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by rvn1045 12y ago
People respond to inventives. We should set the incentives such that we get the desired behavior.
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by rvn1045 12y ago
Munger and Buffet both have a remarkable set of experiences. My understanding of reading about both of them (and the book) is that they have a deep understanding of human nature, which is really remarkable. If you read stuff from them throu

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