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Well, here's at least one analogue (meaning a useful model to emulate, from Mullins and Komisar's "Getting to Plan B"): a friend of mine, also an anesthesiologist, noticed a pain p…

I was recently at a Quantified Self meeting in Amsterdam. I met the most fascinating bunch of people, but the chief insight came from hearing his friends give a tribute to the late…

A brief cold shower with water pouring down onto your skull will nudge your body temperature down a bit, which signals your body it's time to sleep. You can also try cycling diphen…

This would work well for applying to jobs that aren't advertised or that they don't know they need yet. Some specific comments: 1. Do you remember CS?-- this sets up a possible "No…

More than semi-interested, because you're more than semi-funny.

I have both Steve Blank's previous book, "Four Steps..." and Blank's and Bob Dorf's new one. (Got it on March 5th - the flyleaf says it was printed in March 2012 - you can still sm…

Seatgeek, especially their Columbus discovery engine. http://seatgeek.com/columbus

You won't type faster than you think. Are you inhibiting yourself, judging the worth of your output, shaping your sentences as you’re laying them down? Try free-writing: writing an…

You won't type faster than you think. Typing fast - apart from the manual ability to do it - requires thinking fluently. Maybe you're inhibiting yourself by self-editing while you'…

Modafinil seems to be the standard treatment. http://www.guideline.gov/content.aspx?id=12111 It's only available in patended form now, and so is very expensive. Some insurance plan…

And before that I read, back-to-back, George W. Bush's and Keith Richards' autobiographies - both great reads though odd shelf-fellows.

I've noticed too that when people recommend books or say what they're reading, it's almost never novels. It's either technical, or memoirs. Here's one novel I just finished rereadi…

"Buy Gifts by Describing the Giftee, the Gifter, the Gift, or the Activity" seems more like it. I didn't find anything to buy today, but I added an item I would like myself (a supe…

"Tube" in French (from France) also means "a hit" on the radio, a top-40 song. Plus, Tubalr has great Michael Oldfield resonance (Tubular Bells was the first record I ever bought).…

Cool. My first impression is that this is also a good tool to get news on artists - because the first band I looked up was the Stone Roses; and I was gobsmacked (as the English say…

The brain is the most complicated object known to man. The number of possible unique thoughts by any brain is greater than the number of molecules in the universe.