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by sbardle 10y ago
When I was studying in the early 2000s, email wasn't a problem. I went to check my email at the computer centre on campus twice, maybe three times a day. With smartphones, I probably check my email 40 times a day. It is very distractin
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I've been involved in a number of "community building" initiatives. What I've learned is that it is easy to start the community, but soon enough people start getting political and the infighting begins - it often only ta
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by sbardle 10y ago
Being aware of your own mortality on a regular basis can spur you on to take more risks and do something positive with your life. In the midst of life we are in death.
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by sbardle 10y ago
Especially with the rise of remote working and services like Slack.
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by sbardle 10y ago
Biz Stone talks about selflessness being selfish because altruistic acts release the same chemicals in the brain as winning money, apparently. I help out at a local work group restoring old buildings. It's only a morning a month but it
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by sbardle 10y ago
Solid advice. I think YC advice gives you the road map, but in addition speeches like Paul Buchheit's "The Technology" can also help stimulate the vision in the first place.
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by sbardle 10y ago
Or acts of self-pollution? (that is an urban myth, right?)
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by sbardle 10y ago
The predictions look good to me except Wales vs Slovakia because of Gareth Bale.
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by sbardle 10y ago
Wow. Intelligence is actually linked to short-sightedness, apparently. I thought that was an urban myth.
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by sbardle 10y ago
Are you saying that consciousness does not exist?
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by sbardle 10y ago
We have the congestion charge in London. Initially the traffic did drop, but now the traffic is just as busy, and the gridlock lasts all day. Cities like London, NYC and SF are expanding very quickly in terms of population size and density
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by sbardle 10y ago
Zucks new password: dadada1
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by sbardle 10y ago
In the UK, the existing social structures like the church had pretty much collapsed before social networks came on the scene. Social networks actually have the potential to help restore local social structures as at root they are about conn
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by sbardle 10y ago
YC is taking the long term view, which is great. But what concerns me is the way in which Basic Income is already getting heavily politicised. Politicians are already using it to attract voters (front page of UK Guardian today, Labour party
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by sbardle 10y ago
I'm in the same boat. I was chatting to some Chinese business people yesterday. What we call social media, they call "self media". I think that is a better description of how most of us use social networks, i.e. to broadcast
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by sbardle 10y ago
Twitter has been mismanaged over the years. With FB, the buck stops with Zuck, but at Twitter, the politics between the cofounders has meant there has been no long-term strategic leadership. Twitter has got away with a lot of stuff over the
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by sbardle 10y ago
I'm a member of CAMRA, the campaign for real ale. Every month they send out a magazine to members. On the front page is an article on the social benefits of having a regular local. On the back page are the member obituaries. Sadly, reg
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by sbardle 10y ago
There was a recent study into the male suicide rate in Northern Ireland. It has boomed since the end of the Troubles. Historically, war has given men a sense of belonging. But it's not a great trade-off. The church can in theory be a g
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by sbardle 10y ago
Britain is not London.
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by sbardle 10y ago
I used to know a "Success". He owns a profitable company. He has a beautiful wife. He lives in a gated mansion and drives expensive cars. But he was also a cruel person, who liked to hang out with other cruel people. I decided if
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by sbardle 10y ago
You also need to factor in the available cures. A simple gastric band operation means you can't then die of overeating. But a liver replacement can still be abused by an alcoholic.
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by sbardle 10y ago
Generation Z? That's a new one to me. Does this mean the apocalypse is just around the corner, or do we go back to Generation A? The Like button has a strange, understated power, that's for sure.
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by sbardle 10y ago
Fascinating read. I always thought there could be some kind of link between the social trauma of The Black Death and the eruption of The Reformation.
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by sbardle 10y ago
Yes, Jelly is Biz Stone's company, and this App is a "Re-pivot" back to the earlier release. I really like Biz Stone's thinking around altruism (apparently we get the same good feeling from helping people as we do from w
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by sbardle 10y ago
Yahoo replaced its native internet pioneer culture with a corporate culture too early in its development.
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by sbardle 10y ago
Motivation is the big factor. Most PhDs are smart enough to pursue a career in higher ed, but it takes a PhD to evaluate your level of motivation / love of the subject. Intrinsic motivation is becoming even more important given the in
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by sbardle 10y ago
Most PhDs pursue their subject because they are very interested in it. That interest may stay the same, it may (in most cases) die down / be satisfied, or it may intensify. You will always be wondering whether academic was for you or n
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by sbardle 10y ago
On point number 1, since we are living longer (Happy Birthday, Your Majesty), there is a logic to delaying adulthood by around 5 years until your mid to late 20s. Grad school can also be a great place to date, and the time can be used to r
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Germany has good academic (selective) schools and good technical schools. We used to have something similar in the UK. I have a PhD and was good academically. I recently bumped into an old school friend, who was not academic in the slighte
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Yes, the Profski Scheme, as it's known (although IME it's the administrators who are behind the inflation of the scheme). I think there is fundamentally something morally wrong with the HE system in the US and now the UK, which la

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