cdjarrell

Fun little quiz but thought some of the questions got more confusing by trying to keep them as simple as possible. For instance, when it's third and short, selecting pass would allow you to rollout and look for a pass and keep the option for the QB to run for the first down if none of the receivers were open. But a run on a pass call isn't accounted for.

I am going to have fun playing with the data visualizations, thanks for putting that together

Just wanted to throw out a huge congrats to Anthony and company for all the work you've done on the site. It's become my entire new music source over the past 4 years and I'm excited to see where it goes!

Job well done, I'm still waiting for an official Android app though :)

I used to have ilictronix on my feed but it disappeared a while ago, moving the blog to heroku makes sense as to why. Will find and re-follow

Would be cool if they showed how much traffic was on the bridge, going across the bridge, or if there was an accident by flashing bright to those approaching the bridge so they could avoid it

I'm looking forward to the day when I can have a physical library at home and the exact same digital library on my Kindle wherever I go. I too think the bundle is a major step in the right direction

Great title. Seriously though what type of barriers do you think they could have put up? Exclusive deals?

This is great, thank you!

Thanks Jason for the notes. I too highlight important bits and pieces that I read and type them up later. Having a cliff notes document on each book is useful if I ever need to go back and find some specific detail (I know this seems redundant in that I could just read the kindle version and use the highlight feature but there's something about books in paper form that I can't drop).

Does anyone know of a good website that has similar cliff notes on books? Maybe one where you can read notes by others and contribute your own. Thanks

Fantastic! Fractals are beautiful by themselves but when found in nature, they're just that much more amazing

Agreed, I enjoyed "Believe You Can Change" when it was posted on HN and was happy to find out this article was next in line in his "Raw Nerve" series. Thanks and can't wait for the next one

We've reached the point in scientific discoveries where you can't expect an apple falling on a scientist's head to eventually lead to an explanation (I know this story isn't true). The proposed theory is more complex and therefore requires lots of money. You have no idea what this potential discovery could lead to 10, 20, 50, 200 years down the road. And neither does anybody, it could be a steal. How much is the truth worth (or a glimpse at why things happen)?

By the way, what was the common man's response when Newton first explained gravity? Probably, "Things fall, what more do you need to know"

You're correct, Lyndon and Pete Rive are Musk's cousins.

He has invested a considerable amount of money in SolarCity and oversees the board; both are indispensable as the former allowed SolarCity to scale (which was the main problem with lowering installation costs outside of material procurement) and the latter has provided the Rives guidance when they needed it.

But as Musk has said, his main role at SolarCity is showing up to the board meeting and hearing the great results.

Solar power will bring us from a Type I society to Type II... eventually

"The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives" http://www.amazon.com/The-Drunkards-Walk-Randomness-Rules/dp... was a great book that showed that not everything is under your control

I'm very grateful for Blake Masters taking the time to type up his essays on his class notes for the rest of the world that didn't get to sit in on this class. If he wants to get his name out there more with your typical 4 page/3 bullet points per page/10 point lesson that is on Forbes.com then that's fine.

It's an alright article but don't let that take away from what he did over the last 10 weeks

Completely agree with his review of the course material. It's very informative but also dry. I find myself skipping through the videos since they just read over the slides and underline important topics mostly.

It would be great if Coursera or the professors including tags on the video timeline that corresponded to new topics they discuss during the lecture.

Overall though I've been really happy with the material and thankful for the opportunity to learn through Coursera and Professors Jackson and Shoham. Looking forward to see how Coursera progresses

Seems like Jamie Quint is following the Simon Sinek Why-How-What strategy. Why you should look at this job, how you'll do the job and what you'll get out of it.

I agree that the ideal mix is a combo of the two, highlights at the top and Why-How-What at the bottom

Fascinating article, behavioral economics and decision choice are exploding and I'm interested in seeing how habit formation adds to them. I look forward to the author's book being released later this month

Extremely bold, you have to love not only Tony's vision for what he wants to see in a city but also that he has the fortitude to act on it

Elon Musk will be one of the most influential people in the world for the next 20-30 years, not just directly from his companies but also from others in the industries he's pushing.

Let's not forget Elon is also Chairman of the Board for SolarCity as well, which is leading the distributed solar PV market.

He's pushing the human race forward in many areas, all at the same time. Pretty remarkable

I like the ripples feature, I'm sure a lot of people will find ways to mine this data

The Lean Startup model works because it's rooted in evolution. Mutations are made and tested and the weaker one dies off. Biology has been testing it for much longer than we have been creating businesses.

We're starting to realize that you can't guess and strategize for future occurances, you just have to try them out and react accordingly. You have to get a little bit better one day at a time and not just think about how you great you want it to be.

That's the biggest hurdle with trying to change the world, we spend too much time thinking and arguing over what's better while key opportunities are passing us by every day.

Rather than 20 full-time jobs we need to fill them with 40 part-time jobs and then those 40 people work part-time on other interests (their own start up, works of passion, another job to bring in the money, etc.)

It's true the workplace is transitioning, just not as fast as the type of work being done. Everything is becoming more personalized, faster and more efficient. We (for the most part) don't expect to stay at a company for 20+ years or even 10 years because everything is changing so fast.

It would be great if the workplace transitioned at the same speed as the work involved, but this can't be expected. We need jobs that fulfill our own personal career goals (rather than us adjusting them to fit the career), that can be worked on intermittently throughout the day (to take full advantage of our ever-shortening attention spans) and that have opportunities for growth (as we work in a dynamic world now).

Of course. Descriptive theories still help identify things better than no theories at all, even if they are wrong. Because then you can at least cross one off the list

According to the Strauss-Howe generational theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss-Howe_generational_theor...), Millenials are a Hero generation. We grew up in an "increasingly protected post-Awakening" era of parental coddling and are now coming of age during a "team-oriented young optimists during a Crisis". The crisis is here and it is severely draining on our generation as a whole. But we are not going to get beaten by it and the only way to combat it is with perseverance.

One of the best ways to shorten this particular recession is through innovation. As employment numbers have been dropping, companies have been evolving by consolidating the missing roles and generally becoming more efficient. We need to meet this increase in efficiency with a greater number of attempts at innovating today's status quo. That's one of the best benefits of Y Combinator.

It's going to take a lot of hard work but luckily grit is regarded as one of the best traits of successful people (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/what-is-success-tr...). While it's true we have one of the toughest outlooks in recent memory, that just means we have that many more possibilities to improve upon. There is so much talent out there right now that is not being properly utilized that it could supply a couple of entirely new industries. Innovation will get us there but not after we stumble a couple of times on the way up.

It's time for us to get together, use our collaborative abilities and solve the world's growing areas of concern of today for everyone tomorrow.

#millenialmanifesto

There have been lots of failures not only in the solar industry but in every industry, it doesn't mean we should stop trying. No one answer is the cure-all, but we'll never know its potentials until we fail and build on those lessons learned.

You can't predict how great the 10th generation of a product will be without knowing how the other 9 were

Forbes has a good site, the bottom feels a bit pop-culturish but overall some interesting information