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by visakanv 11y ago
> People’s obsession with Slack and chat apps (applies to open offices too) seems overly done in Silicon Valley. > After a decade of 70+ hour work weeks, you really appreciate what is work and what isn’t. > I recognizing that promo
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> the size of the salt is directly proportional to the amount of the message you want to consume (because, as you know, in food there's a certain fixed ratio of salt to other ingredients). Hmm, where are you getting this idea from?
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by visakanv 11y ago
But it might just as well be said by someone who IS aware of their irrational biases. So that's not actually a meaningful statement.
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All the bitterness in Hacker News is spilling out here. I suppose that's probably a good thing.
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Ask HN: Has anybody built Tinder/Imgur style mailboxes, GTD, email?
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Great advice, great comment. I appreciate this, thanks for sharing.
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I'm a pens-and-notebooks power user, and I know exactly what you're talking about. The trick is, whenever you're writing anything, add notes for your future self to make sense of whatever you're doing. It's like add
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by visakanv 11y ago
An alternative (complementary) explanation might be that news organizations like NYT keep tabs on popular CEOs and write about them at regular intervals?
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Could it be the other way around? Could it be that he sees the bleak picture, and bets his money accordingly?
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by visakanv 11y ago
> I don't really understand the use of the word "infected" here. It somehow paints the whole phenomenon with a pejorative brush. If it bleeds, it leads. Anything that sounds negative gets more clicks, views, shares than it
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Full text: ORLANDO, Florida--When it comes to the state of Apple Computer, everyone has an opinion. And at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo97 here today, the CEO of competitor Dell Computer added his voice to the chorus when asked what could
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Dell: Apple should close shop (1997)(cnet.com)
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The trick I think is to remember that while they don't say or do much, they're listening. So you can talk to them a lot. Tell them you're entire life history. Ask them questions about the meaning of life. Lots of fun to be ha
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by visakanv 11y ago
Oh wow... have I been foolishly turning down sex whenever I block "let's connect" messages on LinkedIn? Damnit!
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Can't be sure, but if they wanted to go through with it they would negotiate as hard as they can.
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This is exactly what Paddy Adams was talking about with Cards, and I agree strongly with both of you: https://medium.com/intercom-inside/why-cards-are-the-future-...
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What I thought was useful/interesting was the idea that it doesn't make sense to try and fight the fragmentation, and that it makes sense instead to focus on how to live well with it.
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PG's urls are simple and memorable enough that you can type them into a text message. I direct people to paulgraham.com/wealth.html, paulgraham.com/love.html, paulgraham.com/hs.html and paulgraham.com/essay.html all
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Mind elaborating? What's psuedo-historian about it? What would make it less disappointing?
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> His startup essays tended to be bit artificial, as if he had to force himself to write them. He was basically doing content marketing for YCombinator, which is understandable and probably served him/them well. But this is probably
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Interestingly, this actually gets closer to the original root meaning of the word than what it tends to mean these days: > TECHNOLOGY: 1610s, "a discourse or treatise on an art or the arts," from Greek tekhnologia "systema
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The short answer is to make stuff people really, really want. You get wealth by creating it, and you get status from creating wealth. It could be software, but it could be anything, really. If you build a startup that has users who love you
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Being unfairly imprisoned for political reasons is often a great career move for writers, artists and so on. It gives you serious legitimacy and street cred. But it's also VERY hardcore, like you said.
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Yeah, it's much more complex than I let on in my previous comment. You're absolutely right about it being hard to isolate causal factors, and right as well that the "powerful, popular people get read more" phenomenon is
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Dreams From My Father is a pretty good book. He wrote it before he started running for President, so it's actually quite a nice insight into his mind. It's worth reading just to get to know a hard-working, successful biracial man
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Can News Organizations Ever Get Past Asking These Sort Of Simplistic Questions In Thear Headlines? The TL;DR of this article is, as it usually is with such questions, "Doesn't really seem like it, results are inconclusive, but you
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The relationship between the writing of doctrines, books, etc and people rising to power is a pretty interesting one. See also: Obama's Dreams From My Father, The Audacity of Hope. Trump's Crippled America. Hitler's Mein Kamp
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> Too many projects and too many next actions. It was information overload. I think my brain couldn’t handle my 50-100 ongoing projects and next actions. IMHO, this isn't a problem with GTD as a system; it's more of a problem w
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I've tried all of the above in different configurations. What works best for me is to use Workflowy to think and plan the overall picture, and to use Trello to manage active tasks.
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I found this page simultaneously entertaining and educational. My personal favorite: SPECULATIVE BUBBLE: The page never actually existed and was fundamentally impossible, but everyone bought into it in a frenzy and it's all now ending

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