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by yigitcakar 6y ago
I agree with this article 100%. In my opinion, Elon Musk is a privileged man who by luck met with some of the great technological visionaries of our time, a.k.a. paypal mafia. Nobody talks about it, but it is easy to find under-appreciated
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
If that's your goal, being an entrepreneur is not the way to go. Especially start-up entrepreneurs work an obscene amount of time and most of them fail at making money. For your purposes, you don't need business skills, you need i
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
I totally agree with everything Mr. Gates says. I would like to urge you to take notes digitally though. A long time ago, I started taking notes on Evernote while I am reading and this changed how much information I retain. Now, my notes ar
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
The answer depends on why you want to grow a business sense. What are you trying to achieve with your business skills? If you want to understand the business world, the management aspect of it, I suggest reading Peter Drucker's Managem
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How Natural Is Numeracy?(aeon.co)
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4k-Year-Old Student ‘Writing Board’ from Ancient Egypt(openculture.com)
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The Laws of Human Nature, Talks at Google by Robert Greene(youtube.com)
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To Do List Is a Time Management Tool(yigitcakar.com)
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
After 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Erdogan government doesn't trust military air-force. After the attempt, a large part of the airforce has been dismantled, and retired airforce pilots asked to return. A lot of them didn&#x27
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
> If you change, but the algorithms don't acknowledge that change and treat you the same, how much is you identity in your own hands, how fungible is it? I don't think algorithms doesn't change my identity, but I am curiou
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
1. To give interfaces to developers to interact with your system. 2. Making sure those interactions doesn't harm your system. 3. Free marketing - people who use your API to create their services will also market you. 3. Fluid inform
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
I hope it was helpful. I wish you luck on your journey to the new role! There will be sacrifices you will have to make to succeed, but I hope that in the end you will achieve your target. Every time I was in the middle of a career change, I
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
The interview improved my understanding of our civilization's current situation. I was aware of Hypernormalization we have been feeling in Turkey, and thought that it is similar to Soviet Society, but I didn't understand that the
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
If you'd like to learn journalism style writing in English especially if English is not your mother tongue, I would recommend American English for World Media: The CUNY Journalism School Guide to Writing and Speaking for Professionals
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
I don't know anything specific about shifting from an engineering role to product management one; but in my career I shifted from a sales job to marketing management then shifted to graphic design and lastly to writing, and found that
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
I agree with both of your premises. I started going to International school when I was 10 and got all my education in English. I got two college and one masters degrees. I am fairly confident in my ability to use English yet my wife is Amer
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
Banksy shows us that in our age art and philosophy are intertwined. Like ancient philosophers, he organizes his life based on his ideas, and ideals. It is good to learn that Banksy is anti-establishment even when he is validating his artwor
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
This might be a scheme to increase taxation on bitcoin revenue. Besides being a revenue source based on volatility and scarcity, bitcoin's real value is being a tax free wealth exchange between people and generations. Bitcoin has been
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
I also read that Beeple has shares of the company which bought his art. And artistic works are valued based on their affect to culture. Beeple has none other than this elaborate NTF marketing scheme. You might want to read this -> https
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
Hawking wasn't deified, he was a celebrity and anybody who accomplished what he had under his health conditions would be a celebrity anyway. His story was about succeeding in a field against all odds, not giving up and being positive.
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
I have seen pyramid schemes that are sounder than NFTs. It is sad that a lot of people are spending their hard earned money on NFTs thinking they are going to be professional artists. They don't recognize that they are only becoming cr
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
I think Mr. Graham's advice works on essays and usually on non-fiction writing, which he is fairly proficient. It might even work perfectly on genre fiction. But literary fiction is a different beast.
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
The idea of transcending the line between the real world and the digital using NFTs is particularly useful, and I bet we are going to start seeing this kind of thing regularly when publishing and acquiring NFTs get streamlined. I believe th
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
I just studied economics.
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
I don't think bitcoin will be a functional currency in its current state since your currency can't be more volatile than the prices of the goods you are using it to buy.
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
I have been in a similar situation in the company I have been working for quite some time now. Instead of sweating on it, I spend my time training new recruits, adding value to other people's work as much as I can, reviewing and trying
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
Genre fiction usually follow a select set of tropes from a larger set, therefore I believe it is possible for the ai to write mediocre genre fiction in the near future. Literary fiction and the higher forms of genre fiction on the other han
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
Painter. Well. I guess this question isn't for me :D
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by yigitcakar 6y ago
As far as I know, your phone will continue trying to connect to any cell tower nearby, and potentially interfere with airplane's communications with ground control. I don't think a single cell-phone will cause so many problems, bu
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by yigitcakar 7y ago
Came to write exactly this. When we start to feel the real effects of climate change in a mass scale, our survival instinct will kick in and the world will be in a chaos. With all the weapons of mass destruction, guns and deteriorating soci

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