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Reminds me of this Science article in 2017: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6354/880.2#1504269... on why scientists need social media influencers …

I am not associated with that company, but the nomatic (original) backpack completely transformed my travel experience to something hassle free - I got it years back right in the a…

Switched to https://refind.com instead of bookmarks.

The reasons you raise are very true (I have been there), but most of them are mere symptoms of something deeper. I believe the root causes are exactly the kind of social dynamics d…

Unfortunately true for most scientific communities and the reason why the current academic system is badly broken and talented young minds decide to quit academia before even submi…

https://web.stanford.edu/~montanar/RESEARCH/book.html

I am sure there are early stage startups outside the US who used YC's Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE, https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/) to fund their early cash nee…

bullish on this as well

6) believing your technical opinion matters -- I've seen way too many VP's making technical decisions that they are too far from the work to make, trust your team! This! It needs m…

My "functional programming epiphany" came in a talk by Martin Odersky, who remarked that imperative programming is like thinking in terms of time, whereas functional programming is…

tl;dr "Classical" (natural) scientist: "X is only understood once I found first principles that x can be reduced to." "Modern" scientist: "X might be so complicated that there are …

Gotham by Tobias Frere-Jones. A very similar open source alternative is Montserrat by Julieta Ulanovsky

Excellent. In German there is a word for this trust in yourself and that things are happening when they are happening: "Gottvertrauen" (literally: "trust in god", although often us…