shadowsun7

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by shadowsun7 8y ago
I wrote a longish post criticising Farnam Street's (and others) called the mental model fallacy.[1] My key beef is this: I think the vast majority of people who write about mental models are making a mistake in their reasoning: yes, su
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How we made Carousell’s mobile web experience 3x faster(medium.com)
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Just F**king Ship(commoncog.com)
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Using Head Fake Questions to Achieve Your Career Goals(commoncog.com)
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by shadowsun7 8y ago
You should probably read this: http://commoncog.com/blog/surprising-implications-of-self-he...
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by shadowsun7 8y ago
I’m the author of hnconf and I personally find this meta thread rather annoying. It gratifies me to see that it’s ranked really lowly on my site! ;)
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by shadowsun7 8y ago
Author here. There’s a longer description in the Github readme: https://github.com/ejamesc/go-hn-confidence I should note that while this site is how I weaned myself off Hacker News, it’s no longer as useful as it was
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by shadowsun7 8y ago
This opinion is nice but not actionable. That means that it is less useful if you are in the role of an employer, wanting to reduce burnout in your org. See my comment below for actual mental models you can use to prevent burnout in your
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by shadowsun7 8y ago
This is a woefully inadequate article, and a woefully inadequate survey. So what if 'poor leadership' is the number one cause for burnout? That insight isn't useful. As an employee, I'd like to figure out how to avoid bu
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A Nuanced Take on Preventing Burnout(commoncog.com)
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Optimise for Usefulness(commoncog.com)
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Dismissively Stubborn(commoncog.com)
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by shadowsun7 8y ago
What has worked really well for me has been to follow Peter Bregman's reading technique, which he got from history professor Michael Jimenez (story and full article here: https://hbr.org/2016/02/how-to-read-a-
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Understand That People Are Wired Very Differently(commoncog.com)
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How to Optimise for Success, a Theory(commoncog.com)
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Overcompensate to Compensate for Software Perfection(commoncog.com)
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by shadowsun7 9y ago
Because we need to have a little hero-worship here: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001502 (see section on writing bug free code) I personally find it hopeful that such people, and such techniques, exist.
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by shadowsun7 11y ago
I specialised in programming languages in university, and I, too, have not heard of that term. :/ @OP: some exposition please?
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by shadowsun7 11y ago
It's worth noting that James Baker is very active on Quora these days. His profile: https://www.quora.com/profile/James-Baker-69 Here's his response to "What is your worst memory as an entrepreneur"
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by shadowsun7 11y ago
@delish: have you seen this? http://praxtime.com/2016/01/12/paul-graham-inequality-cowens...
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by shadowsun7 11y ago
pg's central argument is that economic inequality in itself is not bad, but it has good causes and bad causes and those should be attacked instead of economic inequality. I think he's right: it's probably more productive in t
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by shadowsun7 11y ago
This is a fair point. Thanks.
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by shadowsun7 11y ago
Wait, did you read the essay? He talks about closing tax loopholes and even calls that 'stealing' (search for it in the essay). He also argues: > For example, let's attack poverty, and if necessary damage wealth in the pro
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First major iOS malware outbreak – 100 mil devices potentially affected(blog.lookout.com)
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by shadowsun7 11y ago
I don't know much about that, I'm afraid. My best guess (and this is but a guess, I don't have sources for this) is that when the government sold the idea of the 'Mother Tongue' policy, they decided to include Tamil
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by shadowsun7 11y ago
Heh, if you started out with this justification, we could've had a productive conversation =) This is certainly a valid perspective, hackerboos. But did you know why it didn't happen? 1) External factors A: Singapore gained indepe
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by shadowsun7 11y ago
I don't think his perspective is shaped by much knowledge of the history of the country, or the history of the region. Of course, I might be assuming. But @hackerboos: just a friendly heads-up. We're not downvoting you because you
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by shadowsun7 11y ago
> It just doesn't work. It does, actually.
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by shadowsun7 11y ago
14th author: http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html
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by shadowsun7 11y ago
This isn't that surprising. Lee Hsien Loong studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler, and graduated with a first class honours in mathematics and a Diploma in Computer Science (with distinction). He's me

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