Intelligence is Irrelevant: An MIT Alum’s Advice to a Struggling Student
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Finds by @samoli
Ruby/Rails developer and designer in London.
Here are articles that I've read and found interesting, mostly from places like Hacker News and a collection of RSS feeds that I follow. It's mainly here for my own records but you're welcome to follow me.
I'm starring items I find in Google Reader (using Byline) and using ifttt to publish them to Tumblr. This way I can read and reblog articles on the tube (London underground) where there is no Internet connection.
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— @samoli on Twitter.
Basic Workflow of Excellent Customer Service
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A simple guide for getting started with git
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Finnish ISP forced to block access to ThePirateBay and other sites
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First Look at Kepler SETI Candidate Signals
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Piracy is not a problem; SOPA is not a solution
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Fast, easy, realtime metrics using Redis bitmaps
The reason productivity improvements don't work (as well as they could)
GTD, 18 minute plans, organized folders… none of them work as well as you’d like.
The reason is simple: you don’t want to get more done.
You’re afraid. Getting more done would mean exposing yourself to considerable risk, to crossing bridges, to putting things into the world. Which means failure.
The leap the lizard brain takes when confronting the opportunity is a simple formula: GTD=Failure.
Until you quiet the resistance and commit to actually shipping things that matter, all the productivity tips in the world aren’t going to make a real difference. And, it turns out, once you do make the commitment, the productivity tips aren’t that needed.
You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.
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How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift
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