Darwinism, Evolution and survival of the fittest. Such a simple idea that has such broad implications.
Ask YC: What have you learned that rocked your world?
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#22To talk
To write
Gravity
Newtonian laws
The scientific method
Although only now I'm starting to realize how amazing all those things were. And I took it for granted for all my school years... They were all just means to pass a class. What a shame.
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#23The universe rewards boldness
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#24The thing I'm most thankful to have learned in 2007 is that there is a _lot_ more that I don't know about programming than I thought there was.
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#25Social psychology was a big one for me too. Cialdini's book Influence gave me a lot to think about. The role that biases play in my own thinking. Charlie Munger's speech that was on this site a while ago articulates a lot of things I was beginning to realize ( http://vinvesting.com/docs/munger/human_misjudgement.html ) I struggled for a long time with procrastination and low productivity. When I realized that abandon…
That Munger speech is excellent; it's a great summary.
Re: Ask YC: What have you learned that rocked your world?
#26Godel's incompleteness theorems.
How did that rock your world?
I'm not asking you to explain the theorems -- I understand them -- just indicate why or how they are significant to you.
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#27Stack three polarizers. Orient #1 and #2 parallel, orient #3 perpendicular. See no light come through.
Rotate #2 to 45 degrees. See light come through.
Remove #2 completely. See no light come through.
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#28Most people do not like when I'm telling them about my startup. Especially online. Somehow talking about what you care about is taken as a self-promotion and counts as spam in their eyes. Go figure.
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#29hey ericb, can you tell us how you learned social psychology?
maybe what books, sites ... etc ?
also im checking the material that FleursDuMal mentioned ;)
Re: Ask YC: What have you learned that rocked your world?
#30Stuart Kaufmann's "order for free" in complex systems.
His books are insightful and also a pleasure to read.