hawktheslayer

This database could double as a list of ideas to try on a quiet weekend. For instance someone reported: "I made a new recipe for peasant bread." You could even turn it into a simple but fun random recommendation app.

I recently completed a leadership program at my corporation and they had a similar first pillar of knowing thyself. This always makes me think of the prevalence of Mirror Bosses at the end of video games. The greatest enemy to concur is one's self.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MirrorBoss

I meant it somewhat tounge-and-cheek, but if I recall correctly even Cialdini quotes Uncle Ben's line to Spiderman about "with great power comes great responsibility". I also should mention that I work for a large corporation, and while I strive to be collaborative, it is still a political environment I operate in.

I use the accordion method. I let my inbox fill up, and then at some point it gets out of hand and I take drastic measures to bring it back to zero inbox.

Storytelling with Data - because so many people are bad at PowerPoint: http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/book

R for Data Science - because it is such a solid foundation for a career in business analytics: http://r4ds.had.co.nz

And for extra credit two books I hope my collegues DON'T read since they are best kept secret are Cialdini's two books on influence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini

Sam Harris recently had a podcast on the topic for those who are interested:

https://samharris.org/podcasts/the-lessons-of-death/

For the love of god can anyone explain the "good night nobody" line to me? I read this book to my kids and that part has been eating me.

This was an enjoyable read. While I don't often lose sleep over my code, (it's my kids that cause that), I do often find that my mind is working on solving coding puzzles in my sleep as I will frequently wake up with a spark of insight.

The most fascinating part of all this for me is the way Musk thinks "past the sale". He, and others, are thinking about things like how the interplanetary internet would work while we are all still bound to earth. I want to do more of this type of thinking that focuses not on if but when.

The obvious irony here is that this story was told via text instead of a video or set of images. Each medium has it's own place.

> "may have potentially"

This kind of language must be intentional given the team that reviewed and edited the memo, which makes it worse to my ears. Either "may have" or "potentially" would have sufficed.

I have always compared Facebook's attention engineering to fast food companies making their food increasingly more addicting. Just as I stopped eating most junk food after college, I similarly came to a point where I would rather consume more quality information for my brain's diet than what Facebook serves up.

I've been working on old SQL code written 10 years ago, and the original developer used comments as a way to track his to do list (e.g. --TO DO: fix this procedure). It's safe to say that stuff isn't going to get done.

I love that there are 16 points listed out using hexidecimal

This point is particularly salient: "Either Comment Nowhere, or Comment Everywhere". It reminds me of people who highlight so much of the textbook that the unhighlighted words actually stand out.

An interesting tanget: when reading this Nautil.us article, they have an "Also in the Web" section where they recommend related articles, but they recommended I read the self-same article. Seems like they need to add an extra line of code to prevent this.

I agree with you, and this reminds me of the Black Mirror Playtest episode where, (spoiler alert), they create an artificially intelligent game that adapts itself to maximize terror.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtest_(Black_Mirror)

Here is a link to the Y-Combinator podcast where they interviewed Sloan which was quite enjoyable:

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/y-combinator/e/52390460

My daughter and I have been learning about octopui and squids and I never cease to be amazed by these creatures so far removed from us on the evolutionary tree. Recently I learned how scientists studied the squids giant axons to understand our own brains.

This was a very interesting article, but as a juggler, the most interesting thing to me was how he learned to juggle grapes with his mouth. I need to run to the store to pick up some grapes now!

Articles like this are why I return to HN everyday. There are 3 terms in the title that I know well, but put them together and they are something completely new to me. And the cost savings here is pretty remarkable.

Antecdotal, but I knew something was wrong when a coworker of mine who thinks he can pick stocks bought into bitcoin at about 16k

I agree with you that it does help you sort out the wheat from the chaff. Although after some reflection, I also think that the dissatisfaction is in part due with the realization that one can solve the cube with little spacial awareness, a large motivator for Ernő when he constructed his original "magic cube".

My favorite line of this story is "I use the Fridrich method, too, because I am Fridrich."

I learned to solve the cube, albeit slowly, but my experience is the same- people ask me to show them how to solve it but are mostly disappointed and get bored when I show them the algorithms.

Reminds me of the old tale of the man who drowned in a lake with an average depth of 3 feet.

While even Scott Adams will tell you to never take life advice from a cartoonist, his post on the meaning of life is a slightly different take then the one in the article and I find it inspiring.

In a nutshell, we need to give more to others as we age.

http://blog.dilbert.com/2014/11/18/a-life-well-lived/

I'm teaching my kids how to solve the Rubik's Cube and also how to juggle. Both teach them mental and physical dexterity and show the reward of sticking with something even when it's difficult.

The white lettering on black background makes this all the more ominous.

We already thought of this in Arizona.

https://youtu.be/k4EUTMPuvHo

I think it's just a trick to live a more reflective life in general and to have your higher powers (i.e. cortex) to win out more often over your lower self (i.e. lizard brain)