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by sivers 14y ago
Thanks for posting this. I hope this format is useful to you guys. I actually spent the last two days making a video of this, with screen recordings of using Anki and such, and then felt it's a lot more efficient to just get the info on a
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by sivers 14y ago
Check out Kevin Kelly's great book, “What Technology Wants”. He really got to know some Amish communities and has some fascinating thoughts on how their approach to technology is a good role model. He adds the twist that many of us should
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by sivers 14y ago
Yep. You're right. It was supposed to be a light-hearted and fun point, delivered with a smile. I guess that didn't come across. My fault, again. :-)
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by sivers 14y ago
Agreed! But most everything I write about will be in the past. I'm a slow learner. I figure my current experiences are not very valuable to others. It's only valuable once I've learned something sharable from it, and that usually only happe
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by sivers 14y ago
Andrew/π² - Right on. That's what I meant. Thanks much for explaining it better than I did.
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Similar, but less intensely so. Great city. Love it.
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Home was the place that I would just work. I was going to so many conferences and such, that all my social time was out of town.
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by sivers 14y ago
Ha! Good call. Yes, you're right. I have a natural tendency to prefer to be remote, anyway. But yeah my current situation, amplified by being in a very central social city like Singapore, really amplified it. Thanks for bringing this up.
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by sivers 14y ago
P.S. to my Hacker News peers : This is a one reason why I decided not to live in the SF/Bay area. So many people so like me that I felt pulled into all the in-person kind of stuff. I feel more productive & more balanced when living in
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by sivers 14y ago
The article and the Oatmeal comic seem to apply to people you don't like much - people you don't really want to talk with by any means. I also bristle at business calls, or calls from anyone I don't adore. But because I'm an introvert, I
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by sivers 14y ago
Richard Branson's autobiography is filled with many examples of self-created desperation. See http://sivers.org/desperate and http://sivers.org/desperate2
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Still in Singapore. Rented a private office at http://smartspace.sg/
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by sivers 14y ago
Love it. I wanted to do this in Singapore. There are lots of co-working spaces but they're all so damn social, and what I really want is solitude. I thought it'd be great to make a co-working space called "Solitude" with lots of little 1-pe
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by sivers 14y ago
It was understood with the family that I was doing the conversion “in name only”. It made it possible for my wife's family to give her a proper Muslim wedding, which made the Indian relatives happy. No beliefs were changed that day. ☺
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Yes! Thank you Guibog for an important point. I mentioned the quick and visible events, for the sake of story-telling, but the stuff you're talking about is deeper, more powerful, and harder to talk about.
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by sivers 14y ago
I got my basic PADI with only one real dive. (+ a few quick tests). Then I went straight for my advanced PADI, and this was my 2nd dive of my advanced class. It was just me and the instructor, and I think he was breaking the rules, unfortun
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by sivers 14y ago
Graeme just put it better than I did. Thanks Graeme! ☺
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by sivers 14y ago
Sorry I didn't think it'd go onto Hacker News. It's not really meant as an educational post with a lesson. Just my personal blog sharing a thought I was feeling this week. If it doesn't resonate, no need to force it. I like reading stories
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by sivers 14y ago
Yes! Love it. I'm actually producing a book about the Entrepreneur's Guide to the Philippines : http://woodegg.com/ph If anyone's interested, or wants to contribute, or has a business they want profiled in the book, please contact me at d
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Separate REST JSON API server and client?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by sivers 14y ago|0 comments
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The Most Successful E-mail I Ever Wrote(fourhourworkweek.com)
101 points by sivers 14y ago|16 comments
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by sivers 14y ago
At some point, you will need to hand over the customer service job to someone else, but when you do, it should be someone amazing. In her case, probably a very caring mother. Someone who can fully relate to her customers, because they would
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:-)
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Singapore is a very easy place to incorporate (24 hours + $350), but there are enough other downsides (credit card merchant account, banking, foreign reporting) - that it's probably worth doing what the other people advise here, and just se
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Using spaced repetition to retain technical knowledge(jackkinsella.ie)
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by sivers 15y ago
hey Philip - I agree with these 3 points. I lost your email address since we met at TED but email me at derek@sivers.org - glad to help.
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by sivers 15y ago
Brilliant! I'll be using this for some upcoming flights. I daydreamed of something like this 2½ years ago. See http://sivers.org/semi-expert Thanks for making this come true.
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by sivers 15y ago
It's not in Android market. Just installed directly on to my phone. I should probably package it and put it up there. In the meantime, feel free to fork it and use it yourself.
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by sivers 15y ago
In this last case, I just asked on my Twitter account. But for future, I'd try odesk, elance, and also asking around my network of programmers I already know.
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by sivers 15y ago
Yes! Absolutely! It takes a strong ego to say, "Hell I'm better than all these other mofos. Get out of my way, slow-pokes!" It's got a competitive edge to it. You'd need that same attitude if competing in sports. And, like sports, it doesn

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