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The Motivation Hacker | Nick Winter

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Moderation in all things, they say. That may keep a society together, but it’s not the protagonist’s job. By hacking my motivation. Shows you how to summon extreme amounts of motivation to accomplish anything you can think of. From precommitment to rejection therapy, this is your field guide to getting yourself to want to do everything you always wanted to want to do. Read It On Kindle. First published April 6, 2013. You've got your choice of where to grab it:. 299 ebook, no DRM. First Year Book Sales.

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Books | Nick Winter

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These are all the books I've 5-starred on Goodreads, by reverse date-of-reading.

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99 Things | Nick Winter

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This is everything I own. I have plenty of space in the Babybox for more things, but I find that the less room my possessions take up in my mind, the more room I have for the important parts of life. I started doing this on March 25, 2012. Because cleaning all your stuff after having bedbugs sucks, moving with a bunch of junk sucks, and I'd read Life Nomadic. Points out that having a tiny number of things rocks. Some other amigos have also started doing their own 99 things lists. After doing many, many l...

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Me Day | Nick Winter

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October 4: Me Day. In 2012, I decided that every year on my birthday, I would do a personal inventory and start a few traditions. Wake up and watch the sun rise. Create a piece of art. Measure physical stats and take fitness pictures. Measure my max push-ups and pull-ups. Take a long walk. Read from a favorite book. Play a favorite game. Count my possessions and get back down to 99. Take stock of finances. Do Quantified Mind testing. Have a spectacular dinner with Chloe. Destroy at least one habit.

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Yo | Nick Winter

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An experiment in. (A toddler that don't sleep through the night.). Since MealSquares released their individually packaged version, I've been ordering 4 boxes a month instead of 2, which is 4 MealSquares per day. I'm not eating quite that many, but it's most of my food, now. More on the blog. We raised some money for CodeCombat, and now I'm doing CEO stuff instead of coding most of the time as our team grows. Will I manage to manage? Update: he's a demon. But we love him anyway. Hour of Code Marathon.

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Yo | Nick Winter

http://www.nickwinter.net/codecombat

We launched our beta. In October 2013, got into Y Combinator on stage the next day. Had millions of players. Since then, open sourced everything. In January, became the fastest-growing open source project. Over the next few months, and have been running multiplayer programming. The latest tournament was Ace of Coders. Most recently, we launched our classroom version. To provide a full-year's computer science curriculum to schools without requiring a trained computer science teacher.

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http://www.nickwinter.net/skritter

Scott, and I graduated from Oberlin College in 2008, we didn't want to get jobs, so we started a startup. Skritter. Application for learning Chinese and Japanese characters. Despite our potentially misguided focus on learning power over mass appeal- who wants to actually learn to. 10,000 words these days? It has done well so far, and we are free. Skritter Chinese iOS App. Interested in Chinese or Japanese? Go learn a zaprillion characters on Skritter.

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In junior year at Oberlin College, George and I founded the Oberlin Street Art student "organization". We would run out in the middle of the night and construct anonymous, absurd, temporary street art chaos. Sometimes, we would enlist some friends; sometimes, we would deny all responsibility; always, we would add magic to the world. Here I highlight some of our favorite projects. We hung them from trees over high-traffic sidewalks. Each box took thirteen hours to make over the course of a semester, so th...