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Try to do nothing. You wouldn't be able to if you tried. Your subconscious would start pulling you to things you really like.

What convinced you California is out of the question? If anything was possible, would you want to live in the Bay area, find a co-founder, and grow the bootstrapped product into a …

It's true creativity is connecting things. Daniel Kahnman in Thinking Fast and Slow referred to it as associative memory working exceptionally well. Additionally, being in a good m…

As a Lisp, it has macros and treats data as code. Other languages don't. As an improvement over Lisp, it's succinct. You use fewer tokens, which helps write less code. You couldn't…

Better by what measure? If you accept succinctness is power, Arc is the most powerful language there is. Python's goal seems to contradict wanting to be powerful. http://paulgraham…

This tangent might sound mean but I often wished there was some glassdoor-like site or startup for shaming bad behavior, especially lying. Starting with rental agents. If you stuck…

Arc. Besides boosting your productivity, it will stretch your mind in ways you have yet to imagine.

Quotes are content, or at least a specific aggregation of them. The article's title is context. What I found as a dangerous idea was pointing out things you notice when you are not…

I'm starting to believe there's an odd property to curiosity. Unique observations are threatening to people's identity. Those were two actual questions asked to Elon along with his…

Q: What daily habit do you believe has the largest positive impact on your life? A: Showering Q: Would you ever consider becoming a politician? A: Unlikely

"What surprised you the most?"

I would pay for a safe proxy. Why are there no proxy-as-a-service companies?

In one study, where they tried learning both ways, people felt like blocked practice was better, even though their ultimate performance was measurably better after the random pract…

I don't know of such a succinct manual with practical advise (as opposed to they air "you can do it"). I wish someone wrote one actually.

I just realized I asked you the same question before. If the server got hacked, could it send Javascript that steals a users password (which you say "never leaves your computer"), …

the best predictors of productivity were a team’s energy and engagement outside formal meetings We’ve been able to foretell, for example, which teams will win a business plan conte…

Make Arc use all cores. Although it's already multi-threaded, all threads use a single processor. Or make Arc scale out on multiple machines by modifying its webserver to shard bas…

Lisp will emerge as a threat to Javascript.

1. Realize it's impossibly unlikely for two people to build the same thing, even if they were sitting next to each other sharing their plans. The only competition is with yourself.…