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by visakanv 12y ago
Congrats on becoming a dad! I'm totally with you on energy sources. We need advancements, pronto. It's happening, but it could come sooner. That said, I don't know about trying to force/cajole scientists to doing what we
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by visakanv 12y ago
> while egotistically proclaiming that they alone can solve mankind’s problems source? o_O > As Peter Thiel, PayPal’s cerebral founder, put it in “Zero to One”: “All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.” I
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by visakanv 12y ago
> I fear that Apple’s leadership doesn’t realize quite how badly and deeply their software flaws have damaged their reputation, because if they realized it, they’d make serious changes that don’t appear to be happening. Instead, the oppo
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by visakanv 12y ago
Sure, I'll give it a shot. 1: It's not that much $ and neurons, actually. We spend far more marketing lipstick and selling mobile games. If your priority is to reduce wasted spending, there are far worse candidates. 2: Original sc
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by visakanv 12y ago
The word-nerd in me can't help but be amused at the use of "set its sights" on something that technically can't be seen. I wonder if it was intended. Probably not.
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by visakanv 12y ago
Ha! That is amazing. I would love to read a book or blog just full of examples like these. Another couple I can think of: (more common examples)- * reducing baggage waiting time by increasing the walking time to the baggage carousels. * Red
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by visakanv 12y ago
Your blog (and username!) really reminds me of what the Internet felt like in the early 2000s. Retro!
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by visakanv 12y ago
+1. I used to read voraciously as a kid, and I think it gave me an edge. Got distracted by video games, TV, socializing, etc in my adolescence. I'm going to be 25 now and I feel like I really need to do some deep-diving into books agai
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by visakanv 12y ago
Um, can you give us a bit more context? Why did you do what you did? What is it supposed to achieve? Why should anybody do it? Why do you feel it's broken?
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by visakanv 12y ago
I'm enjoying the LotR theme!
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by visakanv 12y ago
This is incredible! Such an amazing asset for thinking. I wish we had tools like this when we were kids. Reminds me of a TEDtalk by a math teacher, Dan Meyer: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover
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by visakanv 12y ago
Between the ages of 16 and 22, I hung out with a bunch of really smart people who weren't really passionate about actually diving in and actually doing stuff. We thought of ourselves as musicians, philosophers, thinkers, people who &qu
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by visakanv 12y ago
While the dataset is kinda small, I think it makes a lot of sense. This is something right out of Jane Jacobs' "Eyes On The Street" idea from "The Death And Life Of Great American Cities": > “A city street equipp
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by visakanv 12y ago
The "is" is more of a "might be". But it does seem fairly plausible. (The inverse seems less likely- that depression has absolutely nothing to do with the body.) I'm guessing that as with most complex phenomena, dep
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by visakanv 12y ago
Here's my random, unsolicited opinion: I doubt porn is the cause. Porn might be a comorbidity (what I'd put my money on), or maybe a symptom (I doubt that, too), but the idea that it's the cause is pretty odd to me. I think m
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by visakanv 12y ago
I'm a big Elon Musk fan and I think one of the best things he's got going for him is marketing acumen. I think of the Hyperloop as fundamentally a marketing story- doesn't matter whether it works or not, it gets the story out
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by visakanv 12y ago
Cool that this was written in 2004. Also reminds me of what David Ogilvy said about running his company- he'd only seek out clients that he personally wanted to help, only wrote copy for clients whose products he actually used and beli
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by visakanv 12y ago
Simple, clever!
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by visakanv 12y ago
We should go to Mars for the same reason we should climb Everest- because it is there. Neil Tyson has spoken very eloquently about this. Having something to strive for inspires people. It inspires children to become scientists, engineers, p
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by visakanv 12y ago
I wonder how this translates to psychological fatigue when it comes to creative work? I remember thinking- I can't stand the crazy "work your asses off, zero days off, 24/7, successful people don't have time to sleep&quo
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by visakanv 12y ago
Yup, I think we can detect some very real differences in the way people use English on different parts of the internet, for example. HN english is different from Reddit english. I read an interesting article once titled "we who spoke L
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by visakanv 12y ago
Yes, absolutely. I could suspend my disbelief up until I saw the ordinary cruiser.
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by visakanv 12y ago
This is entirely consistent with my experience since I was a teenager.
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by visakanv 12y ago
Can somebody post a quick-and-sketchy summary? Thanks!
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by visakanv 12y ago
Yup! I like to think of most of my writing as buoys I put out during calm seas so I can navigate during rough ones. Same fundamental idea.
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by visakanv 12y ago
Ah, absolutely. I think what's important is recognizing when a task is vague (intentionally or otherwise). It could be "Google 'mend chair leg' for 25 mins and list out next actions', and then those actions become n
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by visakanv 12y ago
"look into" is insufficiently actionable. How do you measure look into? "Google 'mend chair leg', write down best 3 posts, follow instructions..." those are actionable. "Look into", "manage"
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by visakanv 12y ago
That is actually very, very true. The single best way to get things done is to have less things to do. Underappreciated fact.
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Remove discipline from the equation if possible. Instead tie it to something you already do. Don't go to bed without first going through a nightly review, for example. And review it again before you leave for work in the morning. Manip
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by visakanv 12y ago
I've been using it for a while, it's pretty good. One of the best things about bullet journal that things like Asana, Trello, and all the digital tools are bad as doing is- you have to REWRITE tasks that you haven't completed

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