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   by visakanv 13y ago

   Oh wow, this was precisely the sort of thing I'm looking for. Thank you so much!
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   by visakanv 13y ago

   hah, that's awesome. I'd suggest even coming up with a trite, cliche, cheesy list of vacant "lessons" rather than "nothing". "The journey is more important than the destination", etc
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   by visakanv 13y ago

   I used to write blogposts with a clear headline, stuff like "how to X" or "why X is wrong", etc. My main blogging was social commentary, about local political affairs and news. But I got tired of that and now do a "
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   by visakanv 13y ago

   I'm in the early stage of something similar: I'm going for 1000 sessions of 1000 words each. I'm currently in the 0110s. The main thing I'm learning is: If I keep going without looking back, if I churn out lots and lots
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   by visakanv 13y ago

   I'll start. My personal submission is The Information: How the internet gets inside us, by Adam Gopnik, for The New Yorker. When I read this piece I got overwhelmed with jealousy at the this guy's ability to navigate ideas. It enc
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   Ask HN: What's the best writing you've ever seen online?

   13 points by visakanv 13y ago|9 comments
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   by visakanv 13y ago

   Okay here's what I got- anybody landing on the page for the first time, assuming they have a thousand other tabs open, is just going to quickly skim through the post and read the header/title of each point. I did that. I nodded my
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   by visakanv 13y ago

   Okay, on hindsight 14 days is a really short time. It felt like a big deal for me because it's quite possibly the longest I've not-broken-the-chain, ever. Typically I have some sort of minor screw-up somewhere. But I'm on tra
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   Lifelong procrastinator tracks productivity for 14 days.(visakanv.com)

   2 points by visakanv 13y ago|1 comments
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    UGH. Why do we have to keep fucking this up, guys? Treat women with respect and decency, it's not that difficult. Sigh.
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    This is me x1000. Everything I write has to be shipped almost immediately, because the next day it looks like shit to me. Random question- did you do really well in school when you were young? If yes, did you then get progressively worse as
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    I've spent a lot more than 100 days listlessly wandering around with no direction, and I think 10 instances of 100 days aiming in deliberately wrong directions would've been more interesting, and I'd have learned more. (Excep
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    nice
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    I would love if this could integrate with YNAB somehow
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    also, reach out to the frugal/debt community- there are lots of bloggers who'll happily do reviews to help their readers, and it's a lot of good publicity.
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    I deactivated my Facebook profile for several months. Didn't miss the photos. Came back. Photos start to look silly, pointless, trivial. If I really, really want to see something, I'll ask a friend to show it to me over his/h
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    Interactive Guide to Blog Typography(kaikkonendesign.fi)

    2 points by visakanv 13y ago|0 comments
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    TIL
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    I'm beginning to be convinced he has some sort of mutation, seriously
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    Eh. My own procrastination and the horrible ad hominem in the local political discussions on my feed got me off Facebook for over 2 months, and on minimal Twitter (use it for work-related stuff). Definitely at least a smidgen more newsworth
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    TLDR: 1: social media is the convergence of communications and publishing 2: It's not "media gone social". Traditional/old media had no interest in "going social", and in fact viewed early internet/social
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    Social media isn't simply "Media gone social".(blog.referralcandy.com)

    1 points by visakanv 13y ago|1 comments
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    haha oh man this brings back memories... I used to use this as a substitute for MSN messenger on my school computers when I was a teenager
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    I like Quora, even though it's changed in feel quite a few times in the time I've been there. I think it's ability to make people nicer is far more impressive than it's ability to make people smarter. Also, I like to thi
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    I do this all the time too.
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    I wanted to ask the same question. I've read most of Seth's blog and all of pg's essays, what do I read now?
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    I've always honestly thought that blogging should be thought of as a tool of thinking and exploration. It helps you refine your ideas by forcing to make vague things more precise. This improves your thinking, identifies gaps in your kn
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    Bill Nye the Science Guy Show: "Rules" Objective: Change the world. Produce a TV show that gets kids and adults excited about science, so that the United States will again be the world leader in technology, innovation, and sound m
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    Any "real decision-maker" who makes decisions because of pop-writers... was probably going to screw things up anyway. Gladwell isn't dangerous, ignorance is.
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    by visakanv 13y ago

    So I think of people like Gladwell as pop-fusion artists, like say, Jamie Cullum or Michael Buble. They often get disproportionately rewarded (as compared to "real" jazz artists), but they DO do a lot for a lot of people by introd