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My father was an elite worker in a Communist country. He cared about his work(in contrast with most of his colleges), was smart and had an independent mindset. He left because his …

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I disagree. In my career I started getting close to the people that had already done what I wanted and just asked them for advice. The advice they gave me was incredible and the mo…

If you learn something in a bad way it takes more effort that learning that straight well. If you learn English pronunciation from Europeans you are not really learning English, yo…

As someone who has spent more than 10 years working remotely I don't understand what you are talking about. When I was working away I spent two hours everyday on my car commuting b…

>Some people are quite good at focusing at home. It varies person by person. We have some people, who are great at fully remote work. I am really good at focusing at home NOW but i…

I know extremely successful people and all of them made huge mistakes in their lives. But I don't believe you are using a good strategy here and find your advice is bad: 1. You sho…

The guy had a bunch of great ideas because he did things like dissecting hundreds of bodies, studied and analyzed and drew what he learned so other people could benefit from that. …

How do you know an idea is awful or not? Paul Graham does not have an idea, and he is a grand master expert in the field. The best ideas from YC backed companies looked awful for P…

This is a horrible story: Someone works so much that falls sleep and kills his family members. Working so much is the definition of "negative returns": Working over the limits of e…

>how on earth am I going to convince my corpo overlords that this language belongs anywhere near a production system? Well, I don't see any difference with any other language you c…

Logical people(usually called Smart people) could be really really stupid. Einstein as a young fellow certainly did not change Planck's mind, and Heisenberg did not change Einstein…

I believe the article is an example of overthinking. If you think so much about an issue without the right data you will get wrong conclusions. In other words, garbage in, garbage …

Looks like many companies in Japan are worried about remote working, something that is not a surprise given the slow rate of innovation of Japanese culture. This is just a bad PR c…

>SpaceX didn't develop ground-breaking firsts like Sputnik and the moon landings I would say the ground breaking things were done by amateurs like Mr Von Braun as children playing …

It is not, for most people. If you are autistic, have Asperger's syndrome like Elon Musk, or have other mental issues, then no matter how much you work, you will be always subpar c…

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>All users would have liked Fords with multiple colours rather than black. They did, over time, choose car manufactures with different colors. But they also loved the price Ford co…

I agree that YC business is prospecting, but I don't believe they prospect ideas, they prospect people. Ideas are a dime a dozen, and the same idea could be a success or failure de…

Ancient greeks had actually a very similar system of participation on maritime endeavors. They even supported poets in order to create fiction and propaganda about the amazing thin…

They used very low level programming and access to machine low level interfaces. You could do the same thing today but spend at least 4-5 more time developing your software. For ex…