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Sensemaking: How I got into YC as a non-technical single founder

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Enter your email address:. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Laquo; Get Fast Fast: A Project Management Approach To Lightweight Rowing. How To Reach Top Bloggers ». How I got into YC as a non-technical single founder. When bloggers apply to attend Swagapalooza, we ask them one question:. What makes you a top digital influencer? I've read through thousands of applications, but at the end of the day there's really only one good answer: Google me. Tl;dr What makes me so unique and special? When I reapplied the...

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Sensemaking: A Brief Introduction to Urbit

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Enter your email address:. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Laquo; 2012: My Year of Code. The one statistic you never hear about drugs ». A Brief Introduction to Urbit. It's perhaps how you'd do computing in a post-singularity world, where computational speed and bandwidth are infinite, and what's valuable is security, trust, creativity, and collaboration. It's essentially a combination of a programming language, OS, virtual machine, social network, and digital identity platform. Destroyers are 32-bit ship...

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Sensemaking: May 2014

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Enter your email address:. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Laquo; December 2013. June 2014 ». The one statistic you never hear about drugs. Drugs kill at least 30% of Americans. You never hear this from drug policy reform groups because it shows that drugs are dangerous. And you never hear this from the government because it shows that our drug policies are a complete and utter failure. Deaths from drug use. There are at least 480,000 annual deaths from cigarettes and secondhand smoke. Alcohol kills an ad...

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Sensemaking: September 2012

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Enter your email address:. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Laquo; May 2011. November 2013 ». Program above and beyond your actual ability by using FreeMind. The question, then, is how can we possibly produce high quality code? That is, given that it's no longer feasible to be an expert in all the tools we're required to use on a daily basis, how can we possibly produce code that's not just good enough some of the time, but that's consistently. Well commented, easy to read, efficient, and reusable? The pro...

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Sensemaking: June 2009

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Enter your email address:. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Laquo; April 2009. March 2010 ». Have better ideas using KWL charts. KWL charts aid reading comprehension. Thats what they were designed for at least. Whats a KWL chart? Thats the theory anyway. In practice, every kid hates KWL charts. Or at least I did. But ultimately all this kvetching may have been a mistake. As it happens, KWL charts are probably the single most important tool to improve creativity. Even when they are. Dont do any research unt...

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Sensemaking: June 2014

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Enter your email address:. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Laquo; May 2014. The Most Important Tech Job That Doesn't Actually Exist. Yesterday I asked a prominent VC a question:. Why is it that, despite the fact that so many successful startup ideas come from academic research, on the investment side there doesn't seem to be anyone vetting companies on the basis of whether or not what they're doing is consistent with the relevant research and best practices from academia? What factors should be used when ...

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Sensemaking: March 2010

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Enter your email address:. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Laquo; June 2009. June 2010 ». How to blog insightful. This is a guide on how to blog insightful. Not insightfully. Because insightful isn't a writing style, it's a type of idea. There are hundreds of guides to writing like a writer. This is a guide to thinking like a writer. Specifically, this essay will explain both what makes something insightful, and also where insights come from. What Makes Something Insightful? And as tools, insights have th...

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Sensemaking: Program above and beyond your actual ability by using FreeMind

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Enter your email address:. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Laquo; How To Reach Top Bloggers. 2012: My Year of Code ». Program above and beyond your actual ability by using FreeMind. The question, then, is how can we possibly produce high quality code? That is, given that it's no longer feasible to be an expert in all the tools we're required to use on a daily basis, how can we possibly produce code that's not just good enough some of the time, but that's consistently. How can we do this? The problem is th...