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Why must it be a free software project?
Free software never dies.
1. The Three Musketeers, to teach the young about bravery and comradeship. 2. Catch-22, to teach you to recognize and reject bureaucratic momemtum, and to resist it -- to bravely run away... 3. One Hundred Years of Solitude, to remind us that family and understanding and continuity are being lost, adn that's a shame. 4. My vaporware series of novels, which will contain the wisdom of the universe, to be written in an…
One day my son was in his English class in high school and the teacher asked, "Has anyone heard of Gabriel Garcia Marquez?"
My son answered, "He won the Nobel Prize."
The teacher asked, "What for?"
My son reached into his backpack and pulled Out One Hundred Years of Solitude, and replied, "This."
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
A kindle-ready version: https://github.com/twcamper/sicp-kindle
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Oh, these memory tricks... Not unlike the ones waiters and martial arts practitioners do use. You hardly need a book for that: I saw a waiter talking on TV about what he was doing. I heard two or three sentences or so. And, hacker way, I devised my own memory trick to remember items. No book needed for that ; )
Mind sharing what it was that the waiter was talking about? As well as the way you devised? Would be great to get some insight!
Innovator's Dilemma gave me the "super-power" of identifying what kind of businesses will succeed or fail in the tech industry, much earlier than most people (or even big companies' CEO's). I think others who have read it and understood it will feel the same way. I'd also recommend his sequel Innovator's Solution, which also has a few different and good insights in it. Blue Ocean Strategy is also pretty similar to th…
> Innovator's Dilemma gave me the "super-power" of identifying what kind of businesses will succeed or fail in the tech industry, much earlier than most people (or even big companies' CEO's) Give us some non-trivial predictions or I call BS.
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> Are you saying Mao is evil? Mao is evil to roughly the same extent Hitler is evil.
Where do you slot the various members of the American or British political administrations into that line-up? Does it go by how many people they killed? Or is killing one person enough?
A combination of number and method. Death camps, for example, count very heavily, as do things like deliberate starvation.
The intent to exterminate should also be factored in, but that's frequently difficult to determine after the fact.
Of course, none of this matters to people who simply want to make a moral equivalence between every leader of every country through history; my rule of thumb is, when you're feeling morally conflicted about who 'should have' won the Normandy invasion in 1944, your morality is a bit off-kilter.
Both by Alan Watts: The Way of Zen [1], and The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are [2]
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Way-Zen-Alan-W-Watts/dp/0375705104
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Book-Taboo-Against-Knowing-Who/dp/0679...
[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=filetype%3Apdf+watts+book
[4] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22alan+watts%2...
The Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want by Mike Hernacki There are many inputs that affect success: intelligence, hard work, work ethic, emotional balance, determination, and even luck. I believe that the single most important of these over which we have the most control is determination. This book is provides a pretty good recipe to cultivate your own determination. I'm even going to tell you t…
> The secret is: "I am willing to do whatever it takes to get what I want." Like step over people? Screw the ones who love me? Be unethical? Ignore other parts of my life? Plus, who said that (a) I know what I want, (b) what I want is good for me (c) what I want is good for society in general, anyway? Not to mention that the whole premise is BS. As if by knowing this "secret" will help anybody. A regression to miracl…
Most people have quite a lot of room for action before these even become options. The point is to stay determined, focused, with unwavering attention. Your morality will tend to take care of itself. If you run into a conflict between getting ahead and doing the right thing, do the right thing.
Morality is fine, but it tends to take care of itself. When you start making moral mistakes that's a whole different problem. Worrying about morality when you're stuck is like worrying about gas mileage when your car doesn't have an engine.
My candidates (not in order): Getting Things Done (Superpower: Time Management) Bargaining for Advantage (Superpower: Negotiation) The Art of Learning (Superpower: Learning) Telling Lies (Superpower: Facial expressions etc...somewhat of a cheat since you'll probably need to read more on the topic) Economics in One Lesson (Superpower: Understanding the fundamentals of economics...and wandering down the dark,Austrian p…
Economics in One Lesson (Superpower: Understanding the fundamentals of economics...and wandering down the dark,Austrian path eventually) Austrian economics is the opposite of a superpower. It's a mental device for rationalizing the present state of the world so that you never have to act .