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...unk version of the current corporate web. I didn't really use the WWW till about 2005, but I wish I had seen the times when the web was completely indie.

The book is mostly about making '''decisions'''. People usually don't make many decisions He also talks about some neurological conditioning methods like setting lofty, impossible

...are duct tape jobs to be bullshit jobs, there should be a certain futility about them with a corresponding lack of value to society. Also, the author (or th

Since software is a relatively young field, there are many metaphors about the activity of software development. Most metaphors though correct to an e

...useful ends. A lot of people in the author's experimental group only found about 30 minutes of useful interactions per week on social media. Especially in c There's a documentary about a couple of friends who call themselves "The Minimalists" that inspired the

...corporations who applied them in their marketing campaigns. Business isn't about just satisfying needs of the people, but every whim and want, even creating

== About the author == my opinion, his secret of success is honesty. He only writes about things that

...ey to occupational happiness is to first figure out what you’re passionate about and then find a job that matches this passion. ...did, not what he said. Steve Jobs didn't really do what he was passionate about. He was an aimless drifter through college and a drop-out later. A lot of t

...attention crisis facing everybody in our time. He has a personal anecdote about a trip he makes with his godson from the UK to the US to go to Graceland (h ...ssed with you and your little ego—it loves you, it hates you, it’s talking about you right now. The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting you with

...ngs that I found useful from the book. At the time of this writing, I have about 7 years experience working with software teams. ...and the ways in which it interacts with other features. They should think about not only the technical benefit of introducing a new programming language in

...r starts off talking about the unintended uses of our inventions. He talks about how various inventions over the centuries that had the potential to revolut ...Evolution has as much cooperation as it has competition. The author talks about a few examples in the natural world that represent cooperation even between

...f gender though; that's covered in The Left Hand of Darkness. This book is about a radically different social organization. Written during the period of the I feel that there isn't much to talk about Urras. It's pretty much similar to Terra during the Cold War period. This n

...great, they must pass through the mediocre stage first. This books is all about going from a novice programmer to a mediocre programmer. This is not a technical book. It is mostly about life experiences of the author as a programmer and his advice for programme

...to remind the reader once in a while that the universe doesn't give a fuck about humanity's grand projects. There will be consequences to actions and the pr ...ong time, considering the fact that our current documented history is only about that long. One oddity is that human life expectancy hasn't significantly in

...for love. The taking money part is to have a proper professional attitude about it. |There’s no mystery to turning pro. It’s a decision brought about by an act of will.

<rant> All the silicon valley pundits these days talk about AI and automation but never once mention taxes, which if they had paid prop There's a case study about a government welfare program from 1796 in [[wikipedia:Speenhamland_system|S

...approach is learning by immersion. You live in the Walkaway world to learn about it.

== About the Author == Many elites make predictions about how the future is going to be. Too often,

...equally brilliant. The narrator takes the form of an ant who recalls tales about the Age of Wonder where the dinosaurs collaborated with the ants to create '''Spoiler Alert!''' This entire section is full of spoilers about the trilogy.

* Care about algorithmic efficiency while programming