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by visakanv 13y ago
Startups suck or rock the way survivalist training sucks or rocks. If it's for you, you'll love it. If it's not, you'll hate it.
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by visakanv 13y ago
I used to take long walks with my cigarettes sometimes. And I knew guys in the army who'd chug cigarettes before and after running.
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by visakanv 13y ago
The thing a lot of people don't realize, I think, is that short bursts of intensity can yield a lot- and you DON'T need to be too obsessive about it. Just lift heavy stuff, and do stuff that gets your heart rate elevated for a few
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by visakanv 13y ago
Cool, I think you're the first person I've heard from who's actually seen one! Are you in NZ?
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by visakanv 13y ago
Just getting a little geeky about social interactions here: the asshole bit is saying "that seems to be his M.O." about anybody- it reduces a person into a predictable pattern and insults their personal agency, even if valid. It d
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by visakanv 13y ago
Extra credit if you kill the game just as it starts to get popular.
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by visakanv 13y ago
I can't imagine it needs to be; they just need people to watch the video and share the headlines on major news sites, Reddit, HN, etc. Suddenly the idea of Sony's waterproof walkman is in everybody's minds, almost free of cha
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by visakanv 13y ago
"Though the device itself was launched a while ago, Sony turned to Auckland-based ad agency DraftFCB to help market the product in New Zealand. And so they came up with the Bottled Walkman, which is sold from vending machines in public
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by visakanv 13y ago
And alas, it's working, and we are all enablers. ;_;
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by visakanv 13y ago
yeah, I agree with you- I wouldn't use the term 'hack' at all. Just that if we had to use the term, the least bastardized way of doing it would be to say that it was the relationship being modified, not his addiction. She lit
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by visakanv 13y ago
so she "hacked" their relationship, not his addiction
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by visakanv 13y ago
Good point, and well articulated. Nice.
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by visakanv 13y ago
Nice idea, but landing page looks slightly dodgy. I'd like a little more information before signing in through Facebook. Maybe it's just me, others may feel differently.
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by visakanv 13y ago
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ http://blog.okcupid.com/ https://www.facebook.com/data/ http://www.pornhub.com/insights/
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by visakanv 13y ago
It's not a recent thing, but it gets clearer and clearer to me that I am far less in control of myself than I like to think. I mean this in the "Power Of Habit" sense- I run far more by routine than I'd like to think, an
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by visakanv 13y ago
My end goal is the expansion of human consciousness; I think there are many paths to that route. Mindfulness. Writing novels. Making art. Music. Advancing communications technology. Space Travel. I'd like to see the world become kinder
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by visakanv 13y ago
Yeah, I use an Android phone. When I type in my wife's name (or click on her face on my home screen), I can choose to SMS her, Skype her, Whatsapp her, email her, Facebook Messenger, etc.
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by visakanv 13y ago
I have been craving for something like this for Facebook. I've had so many interesting conversations with friends over the years, I wish I could extract all of that stuff and use it as drafts for essays. Cool work you're doing.
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by visakanv 13y ago
Here's some recursion for you! My team builds a web app that allows our clients to run their own automated, customizable customer referral program. We use it ourselves, and it has brought us new clients. So if you like our referral pro
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by visakanv 13y ago
Marc used to blog beautifully, many of his posts are available at http://www.pmarchive.com . Right now I'm guessing he posts tweets because it's most convenient for him, and he has more important things to do with his t
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by visakanv 13y ago
Will-to-power isn't ugly in of itself. It's what you do with it that counts. You can use it to support the weak and oppressed, you can use it to insure yourself and your loved ones (and more!) from damaging external stressors. Eve
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by visakanv 13y ago
Scott wrote a Goals vs Systems blogpost before he wrote the book: http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/goals_vs_systems/ EDIT: oops, this was after the book. The one before the book is as follows: http:/&#
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by visakanv 13y ago
There's no reason why you need to start with a profitable business that utilizes all your resources; you could always put together something smaller that doesn't take up all your time!
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by visakanv 13y ago
"Taking the plunge" is a romanticized idea. Don't quit your day job. Put together something in your spare time and see how people respond to it.
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by visakanv 13y ago
The biggest game-changer for me has been peer pressure, if that helps. I left a talkshop group of friends and started working with people who were getting things done. Changed my life dramatically.
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by visakanv 13y ago
I relate to this, too. Here's some stuff that I read recently that helped me a little: "When you are young, beginning new projects is easy and finishing them is hard. As you grow older, beginnings get harder, but finishing gets ea
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by visakanv 13y ago
Hey, I'm sorry that somebody else is getting you down. Is everything okay? Are you going through any sort of trouble? I ask not to be condescending or sarcastic, but because there are usually deeper causes for such anger and aggression
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Notes on Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup — Stanford, Spring 2012(blakemasters.com)
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by visakanv 13y ago
Here's what I got out of it: 1: VC interests and founders interests aren't entirely aligned. The VCs want a large return on their investment, fast. What your business needs to do to achieve this isn't necessarily what is best
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by visakanv 13y ago
> "evolution cares little about a 2 generations scale." I'd take that a step further and say that evolution doesn't care at all! The tendency to get fat isn't protecting us, it's just something that happened

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