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by visakanv 11y ago
> when blocked that can be a tempting cop out. Oh yeah, good point. As Pressfield would put it, the important thing is to go Pro. And a Pro would finish the job that he started, even if it might not be "worth doing". Unless you
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by visakanv 11y ago
Yes, big fan of Pressfield's work too! Wish I encountered him soner. I think one of his best points is that you can practically "navigate BY resistance" – acknowledging, addressing and leaning into it.
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I've thought very long and hard (and written loads) about writer's block, and have made a lot of personal progress in dealing with it. [I'm currently 550,000+ words into a "write a million words" project.] I'd
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I particularly enjoyed this tetris-style game called Yahoo! Towers, which had powerups and a great multiplayer. I would bug my friends to learn to play it so we could all play it together. It was great. Edit: Just found a video: https:&#x2
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The Ender's Game series teaches kindness, thoughtfulness, compassion. The author is a homophobe. I'll take the learnings sans the homophobia!
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me too, please?
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This is probably a function of the amount of bad news you've read over the years about people getting exploited, taken advantage of, spied on, etc. When you're a kid it doesn't even really seem like a thing.
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Yep. Every time the new thing comes along (megacorp 'cities'), it breaks the old assumptions about how/why things are done ('build'). Why own a car when you can Uber everywhere? Etc.
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> “It’s very strange, and I cannot understand it,” said Ahmed Othman, the commander of the U.S.-backed rebel battalion Furqa al-Sultan Murad, who said he had come under attack from U.S.-backed Kurdish militants in Aleppo this week. This
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Every time something ceases to be necessary, it turns into a bit of an art form. Consider old cameras, writing letters, painting portraits and so on. The fact that it's no longer necessary inflates its worth as a thoughtful gesture. Of
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Interesting. Mind recommending someone else we ought to read instead?
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Yup, exactly!
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> 12 months from now you won't be able to tell what you wrote while inspired and what while schlepping. I've been writing almost every day for probably about a decade now. The reality of it is a little more nuanced that that. I
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Thanks! And to riff off of the cat feet analogy, you have to be comfortable enough to let the cat come to you. You can't scare it away by getting anxious. That sort of calm comes with lots of practice.
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>So what is your writing process like? Thanks for asking! I have several different but interconnected processes: 1. I have a regular writing practice where I just open up something (Evernote, Byword, notepad, whatever) and start writing
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+1. As a writer, literally all of my best work is completely unplanned. On hindsight there was preparation, background, context, etc, but still.
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You can have the account memorialized (and/or removed): https://www.facebook.com/help/150486848354038
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> Enterprises don’t want to pay a different higher price, why would they. They would. The people buying products on behalf of enterprises aren't spending their own money, they're spending their company's. They'd happi
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> It doesn't mean all startup ideas for wealthy, time-poor consumers will cross the chasm, but it seems to be a lot more feasible to go from wealthy consumers to poor ones than the reverse. See also: Tesla Roadster -> Model S -&g
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Black female founders truly play the game at (probably) one of the highest possible difficulty settings. Looking forward to seeing some of them succeed spectacularly.
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As for marrying other people in software development, that's a really easy one: proximity, physical presence, similar backgrounds, shared group of friends, etc, etc. Dentists marry dentists. Military folk marry military folk.
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Thanks so much for sharing. At 25, I've been feeling a teeny tiny version of that (I had a lot of free time in my teenage years that I frittered away, and wish I had spent it developing skills). But I realize that 10, 20 years from now
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Teachers have very, very predictable schedules compared to practically everyone else. They're part of a reliable industry. They have a very clear career progression ahead of them. They have holidays, maternity leave, etc. It's ver
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> Now, as I turn 40, I wonder how different my life would have been if I'd spent more time doing other things, instead of playing video games. Do you mind sharing what these other things are, specifically? Thanks!
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> read Richard Feynman's bio and see how his parents inspired him to like math/science/world. I noticed a perfect parallel between Feynman's relationship with his dad and Steve Wozniak's relationship with his, in
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> if I did, I thought it'd show how little most people understood about how Kickstarter worked. Hm. What do most people misunderstand about Kickstarter?
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If we're going to simplify or generalize, I would simplify McDonald's to being a "sugar and salt" company. Those are the cravings in the human brain that it satisfies. But yeah, I agree with you. Businesses are more comp
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Technically, movie theaters are in the business of selling "movie experiences", which include the movie, the dark room, the chairs, and yes, the concession stands.
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There are a few things to unpackage here! 1. Whenever you catch yourself thinking that something uncommon is effortless, you're probably not seeing what's going on behind the scenes. Or at least– getting to the point when you&#x27
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Why not just create a Facebook group? What features are you missing?

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