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This is great. As a newbie to coding, I really learned a lot from Codecademy and I can't wait until my little girl is old enough to start learning. She's already watching me and fi…

I remember a quote from Tom Preston-Werner that went something like this: 'there are plenty of brilliant people that I would never hire'. I think the author is basically saying the…

This seems like something directly out of Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People," and it plays into what Dr. John Dewey referred to as human's basic desire to be…

I've been trying to get our QA team to switch over from Bugzilla to GitHub for months and their only hold-out was that you couldn't add images. FINALLY! This is awesome!

I've been trying to get our QA team to switch over from Bugzilla to GitHub for months and their only hold-out was that you couldn't add images. FINALLY! This is awesome!

I love the idea of "a number of side businesses that add up to that income". Small, simple businesses that generate enough to make the ideal lifestyle possible. That's a strong goa…

I think you're correct, that internal happiness is incredibly important but being recognized by others is a basic human need. In fact, it's listed in the Esteem portion of Maslow's…

I agree with you completely. The simplicity required for a peaceful life is really difficult to find in today's world. Additionally, it's a common misconception that primordial man…

Why is this advice so damn hard to follow? I guess it's our ego that stops us from launching before we have something that's fully polished. Or worse, our ego that stops us from ev…