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koolhead17

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Founder, https://taghash.io

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koolhead17··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
+1 "Deep Work".
koolhead17··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
+1 "The Phoenix Project"
koolhead17··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
The Power of Habit (Not recommend it) << Why not? :)
koolhead17··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
+1 "Principles"
koolhead17··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
+1 "Flow".
koolhead17··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
+1 to "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius.
koolhead17··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
+1 "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running"
koolhead17··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
Read "The Power of Habit" so feels like "Atomic Habits" will not be much different.
koolhead17··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
+1 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance :)
koolhead17··on Ask HN: Good General Design books?
I picked most from these two books.

* Don't make me think.

* Design of everyday things.

Goodluck. :)

koolhead17··on World Philosophy Day: 70 Philosophy Books Everyone Should Read
This is the goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97411.Letters_from_a_Sto...
koolhead17··on LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
I still remember how mailing lists were spammed by same invite messages. :)
koolhead17··on Pachyderm Raises $10M to Bring Data Provenance to the Enterprise
Congrats Pachyderm team.
koolhead17··on World Philosophy Day: 70 Philosophy Books Everyone Should Read
I would like to add few more books to the list:

1. Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse

2. On shortness of life by Seneca

3. Letters to stoic by Seneca

koolhead17··on TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube in downloads last month
Sounds equivalent to GMV crap/hype to me. I hope this will excite investors and FOMO takes on. :D
koolhead17··on HashiCorp has raised $100 million in Series D funding
Congrats team!!
koolhead17··on Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
Sigh... It was my bookmarking tool. :(
koolhead17··on Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)
Reading his post makes me feel for Docker. :(
koolhead17··on Ask HN: What's your advice for someone who's raising capital for the first time?
Ask yourself:

1. Do you really need an investment.

2. GOTO step 1.

koolhead17··on Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?
Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus.
koolhead17··on Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
Hey Costa/coca cola. Please get us a regular size cappuccino glasses. We don't want coffee served in soup bowl out here in India.
koolhead17··on Thank you HN
Congrats.
koolhead17··on GLB: GitHub's open source load balancer
Will it have some special love in azure ecosystem?
koolhead17··on I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
Sounds like Daniel Kahneman system 1 and 2 in short. :)
koolhead17··on YC’s 2018 Summer Reading List
Loved reading it. :)
koolhead17··on Why fundraising is a terrible experience for founders: Lessons learned
This post is a fluf, more like marketing piece. If your pedigree is Google and you are able to raise in 8 weeks, feel blessed.

It would be great to hear VC side of story as well like:

* 4X return to LP's.

* Show enough exits in 7-8 years fund cycle.

* Always on the road for raising next fund.

* Coordinating with portfolio founders or other bigger investors for follow on.

* Managing on a limited management fees.

* How every fund has it's own investment thesis and they keep getting emails from rookie founders.

koolhead17··on What the Indian head wobble really says
Sounds like your "Correct Overgeneralization" :)
koolhead17··on Stripe Press
I don't understand why people are commenting negatively of this announcement.

Stripe founders are smart enough to understand what they are doing.

Marketing & educating helps in customer acquisition. They are on it.

koolhead17··on Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
Some of my picks from last months reading list:

1. The undoing project, Michael Lewis

2. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

3. Missing Microbes, Martin J. Blaser

4. Socrates' Defence, Plato

koolhead17··on Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation
Reminds me of Scott Adams, System vs Passion.
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