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OP, along with people like Tim Ferris claim that publicly announcing your goals will help you achieve them due to the pressure of being known as a failure. At the same time, people…

This seems like a pretty big blunder. Every day I grow more and more paranoid about my personal data including HIPAA.

You've misunderstood me. The part I've found motivating was that these seemingly amazing people are also regular people. I'm also more interested in bootstrapping my business witho…

What a great fucking quote. I remember being totally inspired by this essay. Makes me feel like my dreams are within my reach.

They certainly have the money and the technical talent. Innovation is hard because you need a certain type of insight and creative perspective, which is very rare.

Good to see that he is taking advantage of his sour situation. I think I would have broken down if I were to become a subject of internet ridicule. I am so afraid of fame that ever…

This sounds like a different version of smart kids being lazy because they learned that they can get away with it, while those who were taught to work hard as kids become successfu…

I'm sure this has been researched intensively by the media giants. A lot of pop music and rehashes of classic movies are a product of this I think.

This is good stuff. Most people know by now that they should "solve business problems" in order to create a decently successful product/service. But most beginning entrepreneurs ar…

Bit of a stretch, but when I read the title, I thought it was going to be a satire about how the main functions of schools now days seems to be social proof and nothing else (PROOF…

Nice! Does Amazon regularly offer free eBooks?

How I felt while watching this speech: 1) Motivation to work harder at my job. 2) Relief that people do develop better tastes in people as they age (i.e. generosity over coolness) …

I really like this site. It would be perfect if all these items were guarenteed to be sold :p Just because you bought a toilet seat for $20 cheaper on Amazon doesn't mean people wi…

Why is everybody saying that this post seems sleazy? Am I the only one that's not seeing it like that? He is only trying to encourage people to attend the BoS conference by telling…

Oops, I meant phone number!

I tried to sign up for Yahoo mail, but decided against it because they required my phone number to sign up. I hope this isn't the trend. Also, I'm wondering why they are requiring …

The concept of curating all the basic knowledge of Rails into 3 hours is interesting, but his sales page does not tell you exactly what he covers. If you are not willing to drop 40…

Posted 17 hours ago. How did it go? Did you get to talk about interesting things?

Wow, now that I see you breaking it down like this, I can start to see how I can find business problems that I can potentially solve. This is making me think why stop at software s…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5603403 "I don't think that was the takeaway I was going for. An accountant, told "Tell me where the money goes in a taco truck", would be able…

I want to become a Ruby on Rails Ninja. Something about Rails... just feels right! Believe me, I've fallen in love. Nothing is more fun than programming Ruby on Rails. It has actua…

Wow okay, to be honest with you, I could not answer that question about the taco truck. But I will try to understand businesses more better. Thank you so much for your helpful answ…

Thank you, your reply did help. So I guess you've started as a consultant and then moved into creating your own products?