tangentcity

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by tangentcity 10y ago
Well, here's at least one analogue (meaning a useful model to emulate, from Mullins and Komisar's "Getting to Plan B"): a friend of mine, also an anesthesiologist, noticed a pain point and did something about it: https:
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by tangentcity 12y ago
I was recently at a Quantified Self meeting in Amsterdam. I met the most fascinating bunch of people, but the chief insight came from hearing his friends give a tribute to the late Seth Roberts at the end of the seminar. The take-home lesso
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by tangentcity 14y ago
A brief cold shower with water pouring down onto your skull will nudge your body temperature down a bit, which signals your body it's time to sleep. You can also try cycling diphenhydramine 40-100 mg, melatonin 0.5 - 1.5 mg, and orange blo
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by tangentcity 14y ago
This would work well for applying to jobs that aren't advertised or that they don't know they need yet. Some specific comments: 1. Do you remember CS?-- this sets up a possible "No." reaction in the reader's mind (is it a given that ALL rea
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by tangentcity 15y ago
More than semi-interested, because you're more than semi-funny.
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by tangentcity 15y ago
I have both Steve Blank's previous book, "Four Steps..." and Blank's and Bob Dorf's new one. (Got it on March 5th - the flyleaf says it was printed in March 2012 - you can still smell printing press oil on this one) Though I haven't read it
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by tangentcity 15y ago
Seatgeek, especially their Columbus discovery engine. http://seatgeek.com/columbus
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by tangentcity 15y ago
You won't type faster than you think. Are you inhibiting yourself, judging the worth of your output, shaping your sentences as you’re laying them down? Try free-writing: writing anything, as long as it's English (not random letters), not ce
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by tangentcity 15y ago
You won't type faster than you think. Typing fast - apart from the manual ability to do it - requires thinking fluently. Maybe you're inhibiting yourself by self-editing while you're forming the sentences in your mind as you're typing. Try
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by tangentcity 15y ago
Modafinil seems to be the standard treatment. http://www.guideline.gov/content.aspx?id=12111 It's only available in patended form now, and so is very expensive. Some insurance plans might cover it. A generic, cheaper version should be ava
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by tangentcity 15y ago
And before that I read, back-to-back, George W. Bush's and Keith Richards' autobiographies - both great reads though odd shelf-fellows.
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by tangentcity 15y ago
I've noticed too that when people recommend books or say what they're reading, it's almost never novels. It's either technical, or memoirs. Here's one novel I just finished rereading that's almost like an anti-Oprah book in that you won't i
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by tangentcity 15y ago
"Buy Gifts by Describing the Giftee, the Gifter, the Gift, or the Activity" seems more like it. I didn't find anything to buy today, but I added an item I would like myself (a super-expensive cookbook), and had fun adding any tag that came
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by tangentcity 15y ago
"Tube" in French (from France) also means "a hit" on the radio, a top-40 song. Plus, Tubalr has great Michael Oldfield resonance (Tubular Bells was the first record I ever bought). Ace name.
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by tangentcity 15y ago
Cool. My first impression is that this is also a good tool to get news on artists - because the first band I looked up was the Stone Roses; and I was gobsmacked (as the English say) that the first hit was of their press conference announcin
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by tangentcity 15y ago
The brain is the most complicated object known to man. The number of possible unique thoughts by any brain is greater than the number of molecules in the universe.