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paulplugon Chalkdust – A magazine for the mathematically curious

Love Chalkdusk! My 3 favorite math, physics and cs websites that I discovered this year are:

These 3 provide a stream of amazing, very well curated content, with no nonsense or spam. Have learned a ton from these this year.

paulplugon Contact Ben Horowitz for $20

I missed that. Well still, I don't see this as something he will keep up. I still think it's mostly a temporary publicity stunt.

paulplugon How to build the next Trello and sell it for $425M or more

Obviously I wouldn't look at this as a recipe for success, but the author does provide some pretty interesting insights. I do think that it is easy to look back at sparse events like acquisitions and try see patterns, whereas in fact there is a fair amount of luck, timing and personal connections involved in the acquisition game.

paulplugon Contact Ben Horowitz for $20

Neat idea. It does seem like a bit of a publicity stunt - I don't think Ben Horowitz really needs the 20 bucks, but this is a cool use case for bitcoin.

paulplugon The Heroism of Incremental Care

I suffer from severe migraines. My mom does too. I get them at least 3 times a week, and it really knocks me down. This really struck a chord with me. After a couple of paragraphs I couldn't stop reading. Very encouraging.

I'm originally from Italy. Growing up my mom and I tried all sorts of medications available in Italy, but none of them made a real difference. I moved to the US a few years back and I tried a few off the counter headache medications (Acetaminophen + Caffeine + Aspirine) and much to my surprised it really helped. I'm not sure why, but these are not available in europe. I started bringing them back home to my mom. It helps with the really tough migraines, instead of being in my room, lights off, puking, I can walk around and even do some work.