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chegra84on Words I'd ban from all websites

First of all there is no data presented to back what she is saying. She is implicitly asking people to stop using these ten words based on her own authority. Also, I dislike the tone of the article; it seems like it's, again, coming from an authority, using words like :"Wrong","Pointless","Fine". I guess I like my pieces to be written with humility and facts. :D

chegra84on Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job

That's the source: http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/ResearchAndPolicy/TheS...

chegra84on Want to be an entrepreneur? Drop out of college.

They are mutual exclusive. But, I particular don't like the flippant nature these advice are being thrown about. I encourage people to think how things will affect them in the worst case scenario. Sometimes, even if you don't want to do something, it might be an easier and quicker path to achieve success.

chegra84on Want to be an entrepreneur? Drop out of college.

I think advice like this should be taken lightly. This writer simply says look at this or that, not realizing these guys are the exception, not the rule. What worries me is she gives life changing decisions without any data to back her approach.

Some data for you: 1. 95.1% of entrepreneurs had a bachelor degree or higher 2. 41.4% of entrepreneurs succeed on the first go (There goes the apprentice argument) 3. The average and median age of company founders in our sample when they started their current companies was 40. The standard deviation for this distribution was 7.7.

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/ResearchAndPolicy/TheS...

chegra84on Weird Habits That Will Change Your Life

Actually they teach a technique like this in MSc and MBA courses. You start at where you want to be in the future and you work your way back to where you are now. He attached an esoteric name but still the concept is still the same.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_backward_from_the_goal) I am sure you use this technique alot when programming- start with what you want to achieve then break it down into its components.

In essence what they are trying to do is to capture the problem from a different perspective than the present.

chegra84on Weird Habits That Will Change Your Life

Yea, I sometime use the time travel one and pretend that my older self is talking to me. Sometimes, I split myself up into years and have the different me talk from the past but for this I use a script and write down what the different years are saying. The past years talking helps to identify times when I think the ship is going to sink and it didn't[or when it did]. Also, it helps to identify the key players in a particular scenario.

chegra84on 80% of people trust Google more than Facebook

Well, I think everybody knows google business model, facebook is a little dubious.

chegra84on Ask HN: Please help review my startup's messaging

Love it. I would sign up if I had the money.

1. Clear yes 2. Very - the metric thing is very important.

chegra84on Bootup Labs' Danny Robinson: "I made mistakes. I was wrong. Lessons Learned."

My point was to get something more solid.

chegra84on Bootup Labs' Danny Robinson: "I made mistakes. I was wrong. Lessons Learned."

Well, at least they can say they did their best to help. Currently, I don't think they aren't going all out to help these guys.

chegra84on Bootup Labs' Danny Robinson: "I made mistakes. I was wrong. Lessons Learned."

Your equivocal words aren't going to help-"Possibly". And, they don't need the money couple months from now; they need it now.

chegra84on Bootup Labs' Danny Robinson: "I made mistakes. I was wrong. Lessons Learned."

Danny, Words whisper, Actions scream. In order to combat this situation, offer the cut teams tangible help. And, don't let it be something like:" If I could help in anyway!" Jesus Christ man, you already know how you could help; these guys need money. Use your connects to link them with some angel investors/ VC.

After, this am sure everyone would forgive and applaud you. And the publicity and the goodwill gained goes a long way. It is just too easy to say am sorry.

chegra84on Web start-ups almost always fail. So why are these guys launching one?

That is the premise of the article. My point is more to illustrate odds go up significantly the more you play

chegra84on Web start-ups almost always fail. So why are these guys launching one?

Yes some people will fail no matter what cause it's a probability. But it doesn't negate the fact the more you do it the higher the probability you will win.

chegra84on Web start-ups almost always fail. So why are these guys launching one?

I know that's why i say that in actuality the number of trials is 4. Each trial compounds on the previous.

chegra84on Web start-ups almost always fail. So why are these guys launching one?

How risky is it to be an entrepreneur? 10-30% chance of sucesss. On the surface this might seem like bad odds but we are talking about businesses that have the potential over a life time to be worth over 10million dollars. And so the expected value of starting one is 0.1 * 10million = 1million. These figures are arbitary but it's more to illustrate the point that they aren't that insane to start one. The thing about entrepreneurship is that if you fail you can always try again. Try 12 times and that puts your probability of success to 70%. Assuming the trials are independent, but they are not most entrepreneurs will succeed in 4 tries.

chegra84on Tips for Successful Self-Learning

Points to add. 1. What your learning should be of interest to you. 2. Learning material for technical stuff should have ton of examples[I think most people have strong inductive reasoning]. Always, remember when it comes to learning that you have proven that you can learn but the material/ resource you are trying to learn from hasnt proven it can teach.

chegra84on Weighing the Evidence on Exercise

As one of the article says "both sides of the argument can bring lots of data to thet table in support of their contentions."

I think scientist should be leading the charge on this. Everybody seem to have their own book or point of view to peddle.

chegra84on Weighing the Evidence on Exercise

http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/exandwtloss.ht...

"In contrast, Sopko et al. (1985) in a twelve-week study, with obese men, reported that when the negative energy balance created by diet only and exercise only are equal, the two treatments produce similar results. The participants in the diet only group (n=10) experienced a weight loss of 6.1kg by restricting their caloric intake 500 kcal/day. The exercise only group (n=6) lost 6.2 kg by performing a treadmill walking program in which they expended 500 kcal/day. The men in the diet only group went from a body fat of 31.4% to 25%, where as the exercise only group went from 26.7% to 19%"

From reading this, it seem like many studies didn't attempt to make calorie deficit equal.

chegra84on Weighing the Evidence on Exercise

You are telling me that you eat 1000 calories less than required and you aren't tempted to break the diet? :)

chegra84on Weighing the Evidence on Exercise

"“In general, exercise by itself is pretty useless for weight loss,” says Eric Ravussin, a professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., and an expert on weight loss. It’s especially useless because people often end up consuming more calories when they exercise."

Study, have shown that if your energy expenditure and take-in is the same as dieting, exercise can produce the same results.

I have this hypothesis that it is psychologically easier to exercise off weight than to restrict your diet below maintenance.

Reason why: 1. Less willpower for exercise. Once you are on the treadmill it's easy to continue, while for dieting you will need to control yourself for at least 8hrs. So, comparing 15mins of control for getting started to exercise to 8hrs of control to diet, exercise significantly better.

2.Exercise release endorphins, ie you will be happier after exercising. Dieting leaves you irritable and tired.

3. Exercise builds metabolism, so you will burn at rest[not as much as they would have you believe in some books]. Dieting slow metabolism.

4. At moderately high intensity exercise can reduce appetite.

Drawbacks to exercise: 1) Takes alot of time. Walking at 4mph for 60mins only burns 340 calories for a 150pound man[or something like that]. So, in essence 3hrs of exercise by walk a day will burn 2 pounds a week[provided that you follow a maintenance diet]

chegra84on Traffic results from picking a fight with 37Signals

Yea, nice. I just got through listening to David on stanford podcast. Unlearn your mba.

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2334

After listening to it. I wanted to pick a fight, not because I need to grow a site[which i think is clever] because I think some of the stuff they say are plain wrong and they know it.

Sometimes, I get the sense they are doing it for publicity, but there are a lot of young and upcoming entrepreneurs that look up to them, and they have a responsibility to be accurate.

chegra84on The Myth Of Creativity

The main point of my rely was to go down with certain cliche phrase like 1% and 99%.

And with the notion one person builds a company.

chegra84on The Myth Of Creativity

Rarely is not an absolute.Rarely leaves room for outliers, And before rarely, i added i think, making it clear i have no evidence to back this up.

Only - is an absolute. You made no effort to indicate it was an opinion but you present it as an absolute truth.

chegra84on Booted out of Bootup Labs

I find the weird part about this is you are selling your domains. I vote no for this move. Find another way to make that cash but keep your domain and your co-founder.

If these guys at bootlab accepted you, there is a high probability that someone else would too.

[who knows post a donation page and see where it goes. I think most of us here knows what survival mode is like, so would be sympathetic to your cause]

chegra84on The Myth Of Creativity

Absolutes... words like only...Successfully Entrepreneurs. Be reasonable and say for some workable revolutionary idea. You'll are creating a dogma about entrepreneurship.

It only takes one counter example to brake your false notion of entrepreneurship.

Facebook - when it came out was a hit.

Google Search - they were good from the start, the interface rarely changed

eBay - Unexcepted hit. [The majority of their iteration was done after they were successful] -There is something called luck. For people that arent superstars maybe you are right. All am asking is to be reasonable and say some, not all.

chegra84on Organic Startup Ideas

This is good for me and you but I suspect alot of people termed geeks are introverts. Hence being around other people tires them out.

chegra84on The Myth Of Creativity

"successful innovators" lol. I have this idea that it takes more than one person to be successful. I think you rarely find the guy with the revolutionary idea and the guy that is the determine hard worker to be the same person. The ideas person is normally a dreamer and likes to change ideas quickly while the determine hard worker is diligent and hates change.

According to Meredith Belbin - "NOBODY'S PERFECT - BUT A TEAM CAN BE" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Belbin

Although on the surface one person gets all the glory, it takes alot of persons to be successful.

chegra84on To Improve Fitness, Try Sleep

You have any link to the theory behind the new trend?

chegra84on Apparently, Mark Zuckerberg Still Writes Code

Coding is therapeutic especially when you don't have to do it. Besides, its an easy way to enter flow. "The hallmark of flow is a feeling of spontaneous joy, even rapture, while performing a task." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29