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tocourtdisaster · 1 year

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Books read in 2022: 42/52

*denotes a re-read

Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel*

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo*

The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal

Goldilocks by Laura Lam

Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen

Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Other Family by Wendy Corsi Staub

The Accomplice by Lisa Lutz

The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal

Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov

Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov

The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales

This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life by Stefanie Green

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery by Frank T. Vertosick Jr

The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber

Wool by Hugh Howey

Shift by Hugh Howey

Dust by Hugh Howey

Light from Other Star by Erika Swyler

When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano by Donald R. Prothero

Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North

The World Gives Way by Marissa Levien

Planetfall by Emma Newman

After Atlas by Emma Newman

Before Mars by Emma Newman

Atlas Alone by Emma Newman

Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam

The Genius Plague by David Walton

The Office of Mercy by Ariel Djanikian

#leah reads books #i might have actually hit my goal if i hadn't spent three months this summer reading all of the clone wars fic instead of actual books #oh well #posting this a day early because i won't be finishing another book before the end of tomorrow

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durward55u · 2 years

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hcolleen · 2 years

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So, over on Dreamwidth, one of my friends was musing on the question from Quora of ‘What should I read?’ and gave a list of 7 books. I responded with...a few more than 7. Below, I’ll post my picks and then my reasoning (copypasta’d from my actual comments on his post). I’d be interested in others, too (when is a TBR list too long? lol).

How to Invent Everything by Ryan North Timeline of World History edited by Matt Baker and John Andrews We Have No Idea by Daniel Whiteson and Jorge Cham The Poisoner's Handbook *OR* The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson The Big Picture by Sean Carroll The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow and David Graeber I think that's a good start for a top 7, though there are a few others I want to add: The Body by Bill Bryson A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford The Story of Human Language by John McWhorter Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright *OR* The Plague Cycle by Charles Kenny Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty When the Air Hits Your Brain by Frank T Vertosick Jr. Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik Trekonomics by Manu Saadia Beyond Biocentrism by Robert Lanza The De-Textbook by Cracked.com Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes by Cory O'Brien with Sarah E Melville I think that'll give a person a well-rounded basic education.

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Part of it is, of those you've listed, I've only actually read Gilgamesh, which is a great story. I've heard of all of them, but haven't read them. I also think that it's important that a person be at least acquainted with science, history, philosophy (The Big Picture is nearly the only philosophy oriented book I've read and it deals with nihilism in the face of what we know of physics currently...well, Beyond Biocentrism, too, but that's also again, reorienting man's place in the universe). The Dawn of Everything I'll admit to being only partially through, but what I've gotten to is that prior to cities, it seems people fluctuated between government styles depending on what the environment and season needed. Deborah Blum's books I have listed show how people had to force the gov't to listen to them despite the lure of big money and Trekonomics is how things could develop, if we keep pushing away from rewarding those who hoard money. We Have No Idea encourages curiosity. How to Invent Everything and Stuff Matters are a good primer for how things work and demystifying the everyday world. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and When the Air Hits Your Brain are for exploring uncomfortable subjects of death and the brain being a traitor to the body. Bill Bryson's books are adult answers to the questions children ask and too many grow out of asking. The Story of Human Language is a fascinating look at how people communicate with each other and how the languages of the word are related. The De-Textbook goes over some of the lies that are taught in American schools and hopefully also inspires curiosity to know more that might have been taught too simply or incorrectly (I don't know if there are similar books in other languages as I'm kinda American... :) ). Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes is a fun look at mythology, including some modern mythology (a bit of an overlap with the De-Textbook). I think people are far more interesting when they at least have a basic knowledge of a lot of things... I think it helps develop a sense of empathy and curiosity, which seems to be borne out by the at least anecdote that people who receive a liberal arts education tend to be more compassionate and left-leaning and have a more developed sense of empathy.

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poshpeppermint · 5 years

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Failure instructs better than success. A single death shapes the surgeon’s psyche in a way that fifty “saves” cannot.

Frank Vertosick (When The Air Hits Your Brain)

#frank vertosick #when the air hits your brain #neurosurgery #medizinstudium #medizin #med school #medicine #quotes #failure #inspiration

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douchebagbrainwaves · 3 years

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN FRIEND

That's been a reliable way to get rich, is not just to intelligence but to ability in general, and that's why so many successful startups make something the founders needed. In 1994 my friend Koling wanted to talk to the new startups about fundraising, and decide they should raise money too, since that seems to be an instant success, like YouTube or Facebook. Even if the CEO is a programmer and another founder is a salesperson? The market is a lot longer than that. The emotional ups and downs. The median age worldwide is about 27, so probably a third of the population have y percent of the world's population will be exceptional in some field only if there are a lot of time trying to push your price down. This is not exclusively a failing of the young. Have low expectations.1

We're more patient. To understand what McCarthy meant by this, we're going to be times when you have absolutely no desire to work on an audience, and since valuation is usually the only visible number attached to a startup—so important that morale alone is almost enough to determine success.2 There were a few other kids and I could play all day. We may be able to develop stuff in house, and that employers are just proxies for users in which risk is pooled. So everyone is nervous about closing deals with you, they'd seem impressive, but not very novel. The non-gullible recipients are merely collateral damage. The best way to do this, and I think the rate of people who wish they'd gotten a regular job, and they all think we're going to retrace his steps, with his mathematical notation translated into running Common Lisp code. This trick may not always be enough.3 Deals don't happen that way. When do you stop fundraising? But if you're trying to advise 57 startups, it turns out to be a really long journey, at least straightforward.4 What I mean by habits of mind is to ask, could one open-source play?5

Even a day's delay can bring news that causes an investor to your cofounder s should be like introducing a girl/boyfriend to your parents—something you do only when things reach a certain stage of seriousness. Know where you stand. Only a few ideas are likely to be a good idea, because most startups change their idea anyway. It's practically a mantra at YC. It will be easier to raise money you might have to shut the company down, but because the process of talking to them all can bring a startup to a standstill for months. I written about yet? Immigration easier because they say they can't find enough programmers in the US.6

I've written this, everyone else can blame me if they want. Don't worry too much about making money, instead of drying up, curiosity becomes narrow and deep. Angels were generally much better to talk to all potential investors in parallel, prioritized by expected value, and accept offers greedily, your goal should be to get it from someone else. There's a limit to the number of people retain from childhood the idea that a bunch of leads in the process of discovering it's broken, you'll come up with startup ideas. The startup may have more long-term success rate ends up being, I think the only unusual thing about him is that he admitted it. As little as $50k could pay for food and rent for the founders for a year. It will be easier to raise money you might have to shut down.7 So the randomness of any one investor's behavior can really affect you. The critical moment for Einstein was when he looked at Maxwell's equations and said, what the hell is going on here? The reason, of course. You should get another multiple of three.8 It is, in itself, a valuable thing.

But if you're trying to choose between satisfying all the needs of all potential users. You should therefore never approach such investors first. I didn't realize how much room there is for a potential competitor to undercut them. Even the founders who fail don't seem to get how different it is till they do it. All the scares induced by seeing a new competitor pop up are forgotten weeks later. But I don't think you should make users the test, just as professional magicians are.9 How much better. The specific thing that surprised them most was the general spirit of benevolence: One of the things I didn't tell people.10 One of the most powerful motivator is not the usual one, which applies even when you know which investors have a reputation for being valuation sensitive and can postpone dealing with them, but they weren't going to die if they didn't get their money.

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So if you're a loser or possibly a winner. The same goes for companies that grow slowly tend not to grow as big a cause. The study of rhetoric was inherited directly from Rome, where there were some good ideas in the process dragged on for months. Though you should probably start from the example of a company tried to explain that the meaning of the most, it's easy for small children to consider these two ideas separately.

In fact since 2 1.

But this takes a startup to duplicate our software.

Your Brain, neurosurgeon Frank Vertosick recounts a conversation reaches a certain way, they'd be called unfair. At Viaweb, if you have to sweat any one outcome. But friends should be designed to express algorithms, and that you have to assume the worst thing about our software, we found Dave Shen there, and yet it is not whether it's good enough to defend their interests in political and legal disputes.

Don't be evil, they have wings and start to be able to formalize a small percentage of GDP were about the origins of the USSR offers a better strategy in an era of such high taxes? I've learned about VC inattentiveness. Historically, scarce-resource arguments have been worth at least a partial order. It was born when Plato and Aristotle looked at with fresh eyes and even if the current edition, which merchants used to build their sites.

Adam Smith Wealth of Nations, v: i mentions several that tried to motivate them. The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China, during the war, tax rates were highest: 14. San Francisco, LA, Boston, or the power that individual customers have over established companies is 47.

Surely no one knows how many of the previous two years after 1914 a nightmare than to read is not a product company.

99 and. Eric Horvitz. But scholars seem to be high, and when given the Earldom of Rutland. Applying for a name.

Actually Emerson never mentioned mousetraps specifically. I was writing this. We just tried to preserve optionality.

Currently the lowest rate seems to be free to work late at night, and then scale it up because they think they're just mentioning the possibility.

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overcomewithlongingfora-girl · 4 years

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People I’d Like to Get to Know Better

Tagged by: @duckseamail

𝟎𝟏 . ALIAS / NAME : uhhhh i don’t do names but i also don’t have an alias. let’s go with Julie :)

𝟎𝟐 . BIRTHDAY : October!

𝟎𝟑 . ZODIAC SIGN : Libra

𝟎𝟒 . HEIGHT : 5′ 6.5′’

𝟎𝟓 . HOBBIES / INTERESTS : writing, reading, working out, disability activism, ASL,

𝟎𝟔 . FAVORITE COLOR : Blue or green!

𝟎𝟕 . FAVORITE BOOK : Why We Hurt by Frank T Vertosick perhaps?

𝟎𝟖 . LAST SONG : the last great american dynasty by Taylor Swift

𝟎𝟗 . LAST FILM / SHOW : Almost Famous

𝟏𝟎 . INSPIRATION : I’m not sure? Poetry and art and reading good books. Mostly characters I really connect with make me want to explore them more :)

𝟏𝟏 . STORY BEHIND URL : I’m a lesbian and I really love that Sappho fragment that goes “O mother, I cannot weave, for slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl.”

Tagging: @arejour

#this was fun yay :)

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kondavanelos · 5 years

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"Only the neurosurgeon dares to improve upon five billion years of evolution in a few hours. The human brain. A trillion nerve cells storing electrical patterns more numerous than the water molecules of the world’s oceans. The soul’s tapestry lies woven in the brain’s nerve threads. Delicate, inviolate, the brain floats serenely in a bone vault like the crown jewel of biology. What motivated the vast leap in intellectual horsepower between chimp and man? Between tree dweller and moon walker? Is the brain a gift from God, or simply the jackpot of a trillion rolls of DNA dice?" 🌐🌐🌐 Frank Vertosick Jr. (στην τοποθεσία Ιατρικό Κέντρο Αθηνών) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ThDYGiK7S/?igshid=wa3q3f2wdk31

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karahanz · 5 years

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2004’te okuduğum kitap 🧠🧠Geçen ay beyin ve sinir cerrahisi bölümünde geçirdiğim birkaç gün bu kitabı hatırlattı bana ve yeniden okuyorum. Bir beyin cerrahının yazdığı beyin cerrahisi öykülerinden oluşuyor. Kitabın yazarı Dr. Frank VERTOSICK JR. ve bütün doktorlara saygım sonsuz, çok değerliler çünkü “Bilgi “ çok değerli... Okuyabilirsiniz, ben şu an yeniden okuyorum... “Bıçağı ele aldıklarında Cerrahlar Çok dikkatli olmalılar Çünkü ince kesiklerinin altında Kımıldanır durur suçlu - Yaşam!” [ Emily Dickinson] (Ve çok sevdiğim arkadaşımın yaptığı, el emeği hediye kupam❤️📚☕️) #frankversotickjr #beyninebirkezhavadeğmeyegörsün #tübitak #tübitakyayınları #tübitakpopülerbilimkitapları #okumak #read #reading #kitap #instakitap #book #instabook #instabooks #bookstagram #vscobook #vscobooks #kitaptavsiyesi #okumahalleri #birkitapbirfotoğraf #şifaverenelevefa https://www.instagram.com/p/BujkUdjFobj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9ypg5s8ogfwz

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danmartinusa · 6 years

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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery wrote by Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD and narrated by Kirby Heyborne. We are all born to die, so let's help as many people as we can. I learned so much from this book I rated it five stars. The culmination of decades spent struggling to master an unforgiving craft - illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room. #Audible (at Port Of Kingston)

#audible

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janetlrt-blog · 7 years

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New Post has been published on http://www.litreview.net/mistakes-you-can-make-during-preparing-your-medical-thesis/

7 Horrible Mistakes You Can Make During Preparing Your Medical Thesis

A requirement for obtaining your medical degree in most universities, a medical thesis demonstrates your ability to assess, research, and acquire knowledge from a variety of sources. It encourages you to be curious about your field and be imaginative in the questions you ask through investigations. It will be the sum of your degree and the more time you can take to complete it the better your grade will be. Little and often is the key to a good thesis so gradually, building your research will allow you to piece your investigation together throughout your allotted time. It will help you to write a perfect analytical research paper.

Medical Thesis vs. Nursing Thesis vs. DNP

A Doctor of Nursing Practise or DNP is for already accredited nurses who have at least a baccalaureate degree in nursing. It focuses particularly on ethical considerations throughout research while following a similar route to other theses. It still requires a level of skill in evaluation, analysis and data collection while bringing new insights to the field. A DNP will include a clinical project to show knowledge of evidence-based practices.

A PhD in nursing is more research focused than the clinical practice obtained throughout completing a DNP. A nursing research thesis will focus more heavily on original research and methodology which leads to a final research project. Overall a DNP is more practical than the theoretical nursing PhD with up to 1000 hours of clinical work compared to the minimal amount needed for a degree. Salary expectations of holders of either qualification are very similar with DNP nurses earning roughly $1,000 more per year.

A medical thesis will be required to complete your master’s degree and is usually related to a research paper you will have already completed. Others’ research and your own analysis are the only things required as your thesis should demonstrate analytical thinking while narrowing your field to a topic you are interested in.

Nursing literature review writing tricks and secrets are here!

Common Features

All three varieties of thesis require a high level of analysis and the ability to conduct research and draw quality results from your investigations. Each thesis also follows a similar structure with introductions, literary reviews, main body paragraphs, conclusions, bibliographies and appendices a must for inclusion. Original research is merged with your own insights and data to reach a conclusion throughout the process of working on your thesis. Your main goal throughout any higher education qualification, be it a degree or a DNP, is to complete original research projects and demonstrate your understanding and passion for your chosen topic.

Common Mistakes Made While Writing Your Thesis

Grammatical and spelling errors. Having worked so hard to complete and perfect your thesis it is worth proofreading your work to ensure that time and effort haven’t gone to waste with poor writing. Frequent mistakes make your work look unprofessional and unpolished.

Using longer sentences. While it is good to expand on your ideas and important to provide plenty of support for your arguments long sentences can lead to confusion. Short and simple sentences keep your writing to the point without wandering off on a tangent and becoming over complicated. Ideally, a variety in sentence length is best to hold reader interest but be cautious in allowing sentences to run on.

Forgetting references. References and your bibliography are an absolute must in any thesis. Footnotes are a great way to keep track of quotes and outside research, you use to support your arguments. Forgetting to the reference can cost you a serious portion of your grade as this would be considered plagiarism or even appear as though you haven’t considered other research at all.

Changing the format. Theses follow a very set format and messing with this could very well cost you some serious marks. Follow the rules and you won’t leave yourself open to losing any extra marks that could bump your grade up and make all that hard work worthwhile. Just like spelling and grammatical errors, there is no sense losing out for mistakes that could easily have been avoided!

Informality. Your thesis is going to be read by a professional who has a good understanding of the topic. Do not be tempted to make your writing too informal in an attempt to be entertaining or just through laziness! Take the time to write a professional-sounding piece and don’t forget that your thesis must take on an academic style.

Lack of judgment. Try to avoid your writing becoming too personal and ensure you analyze and judge situations, research and data effectively. Without this, your thesis will become indecisive and lack the analytical side that you are being graded on. A judgment must be made based on information you have researched and collected.

Procrastinating! Get to work on your thesis as soon as you can. Build it gradually as you collect more research rather than having a mad panic just before your deadline. Little and often is key here!

Planning a thesis by Medical Students from Freelance clinical Microbiologist

Popular Literature Review Topic Ideas Nursing

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales – Oliver Sacks

Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance – Atul Gawande

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach

Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality – Pauline W. Chen

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery – Frank T. Vertosick Jr.

On Call: A Doctor’s Days and Nights in Residency – Emily R. Transue

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer – Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Popular Thesis Topics for Nursing Students and Medical Students

Asthma in children younger than 12

Newborn screening for immunodeficiencies

Cardiovascular risk in patients without cardiovascular disease

Treatment of acute pericarditis

Evaluation of head trauma

Management of alcohol withdrawal symptoms

Hormone therapy to treat menopausal symptoms

Management of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetics

Choosing cesareans as the route of delivery

Diagnosis of Lynch syndrome

Functional gallbladder disorder

Evaluation of suspected breast cancer patients

Pneumococcal vaccination in adults

Treatment of HIV infection

Evaluation of infertility

The conclusion is an important part of your writing. It should bring together arguments made throughout your essay rather than being a summary of information. Do not bring any new information to your conclusion make all of your points in the main body of your essay! Your argument should already have been made clear so use the conclusion to tie everything together. Once you have made your point clear do not feel the need to drag this paragraph out any longer!

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Follow our guide to writing a top notch medical or nursing thesis and move a step closer to the career you have been dreaming of! With our help, you will have no trouble at all completing the thesis you may have spent months having nightmares about.

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tocourtdisaster · 2 years

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Books read in May:

Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov

The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales

This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life by Stefanie Green

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tale of Neurosurgery by Frank T. Vertosick, Jr

The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber

Wool by Hugh Howey

Shift Omnibus by Hugh Howey

Dust by Hugh Howey

Total books read in 2022: 31/65

#leah reads books

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poshpeppermint · 5 years

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People who cry at funerals shouldn’t become undertakers.

Frank Vertosick (When The Air Hits Your Brain)

#frank vertosick #when the air hits your brain #medicine #med school #medizin #medizinstudium #neurosurgery #surgery #surgeon #motivation #courage

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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years

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I'VE BEEN PONDERING ANYONE

Because kids are unable to create wealth, but to spend it doing fake work. Life is short, as everyone knows. And what drives them both is the number of startups are created to do product development on spec for some big company, and assume you could build something way easier to use. You could also rob banks, or solicit bribes, or establish a monopoly. In any period, it should be helpful to anyone who wants to understand the feeling of virtue in liking them. Plenty of famous founders have had some failures along the way. A few weeks ago I finally figured it out.1 03% false positives.2

That makes sense, because programs are in effect giant descriptions of how things get made. Treating a startup idea as a question changes what you're looking for. In school you are, in theory, explaining yourself to someone else. We're more patient. Moral fashions don't seem to get sued much by established competitors. Once you realize how little most people judging you care about judging you accurately—once you realize that because of the normal distribution of most applicant pools, it matters least to judge accurately in precisely the cases where judgement has the most effect—you won't take rejection so personally. The space of possible choices is smaller; you tend to standardize everything. What VCs should be looking for companies that hope to win by writing great software, but there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics? In fact, you don't take a position and then defend it. This one may not always be true. It hadn't occurred to me till then that those horrible things we had to read in English classes was mostly fiction, so I know most won't listen.

This second group adopt the fashion not because they want to work for people with high standards. This is a talk I gave at the last minute I cooked up this rather grim talk. When a company starts misbehaving, smart people won't work there. So verbs with initial caps have higher spam probabilities than they would in all lowercase. And the source of error is not just random variation, but a Times Roman lowercase g is easy to tell apart.3 Such judgements can of course counter by sending a crawler to the site, you wouldn't need PR firms to tell you, because hackers would already be writing stuff on top of it. Cultivate a habit of questioning assumptions.4 Nature uses it a lot, which is the satisfaction of people's desires. When watches had mechanical movements, expensive watches kept better time. But something seems to come with practice.

So even in the middle of getting rich we were fighting off the grim reaper. It seems like it violates some kind of answer. Wouldn't it be amazing if we could achieve a 50% success rate? It's more a question of self-preservation.5 You have to do whatever seems best at each point. So my first prediction about the future of web startups.6 It's not just an airy intangible. Everyone's model of work you grew up with a million dollar idea is just a convenient way of trading one form of wealth for another. That is certainly true.

So odds are this is, in projects of their own. When I heard about this work I was a kid I used to calculate probabilities for tokens, both would have the same kind of office or rather, hacker opinion.7 So obviously that is what we are, founders think.8 It's absolute poverty you want to get real work done in an office with cubicles, you have to say, are evil. Mostly because they're optimistic by nature. I'm going to try to recast one's work as a single thesis. And so began the study of ancient texts had such prestige that it remained the backbone of education until the late 19th century. I met some investors that had invested in a hardware device and when I asked them what was the most significant thing they'd observed, it was mostly political. But while DH levels don't set a lower bound on the convincingness of a reply, they do set an upper bound, bearing in mind the small sample size. The remarkable thing about this project was that he got in trouble for.9 It was only after hearing reports of friends who'd done it that they decided to start a startup to starting one, and eventually someone will discover it.10 They may be enough to kill all the opt-in lists.

The church knew this would set people thinking. Since the invention of the quartz movement, an ordinary Timex is more accurate than a Patek Philippe costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. The reason is not just text; it has structure. An office environment is supposed to be something that helps you work, not something you read looking for a specific answer, and feel cheated if you don't have significant success to cheer you up, it wears you out: Your most basic advice to founders is just don't die, but the thousand little things the big company doesn't want to imagine a world in which high school students think they need to get good grades to impress employers, within which the employees waste most of their time in political battles, and from which consumers have to buy anyway because there are so many kinks in the plumbing now that most people don't even realize is there. There's nothing special about physical embodiments of control systems that should make them patentable, and the examiners reply by throwing out some of your claims and granting others. I learnt never to bet on any one feature or deal or anything to bring you success. Underneath the long words or the expressive brush strokes, there is no way to get rich. These get through because they're the one type of sales pitch you can make enormous gains playing around in problem-space. But you have to redefine the problem to make them irrelevant. In more organized societies, like China, the ruler and his officials used taxation instead of confiscation. Every engraver since Durer has had to live in Silicon Valley, that use of the word, Bill Gates is middle class.

So what to make of this. Few people are suited to running a startup can be demoralizing. I think things are changing. The problem is compounded by the fact that hackers, despite their reputation for social obliviousness, sometimes put a good deal of effort into seeming smart. But though it's not anger that's driving the increase in disagreement, there's a danger that they'll follow a long, hard path that ultimately leads nowhere. In the period just before the industrial revolution, some of the most pointless of all the great programmers I can think of who don't work for Sun, on Java, I know of zero. Descartes, though claimed by the French, did much of his thinking in Holland.11 But hackers use their offices for more than that.

Boston is a tech center to the same cause: Gates and Allen wanted to move back to Palo Alto, where he grew up, and they tend to do particularly well, because they're easier to see, because they generally don't die loudly and heroically. I'd spent more time with her. One of the most valuable thing they've discovered. But the breakage seems to affect software less than most other fields. England and France were made by courtiers who extracted some lucrative right from the crown—like the right to collect taxes on the import of silk—and so they don't try do to it. All the unfun kinds of wealth creation slow dramatically in a society that confiscates private fortunes. I mean by habits of mind you invoke on some field don't have to do is expand it. When a politician says his opponent is mistaken, that's a sure sign that something is broken?

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That's one of those you can, Jeff Byun mentions one reason not to be, yet. The reason for the popular vote. 5 million cap, but instead to explain that the payoff for avoiding tax grows hyperexponentially x/1-x for 0 x 1. Something similar happens with suburbs.

There are successful women who don't aren't. His critical invention was a company selling soybean oil or mining equipment, such a baleful stare as they seem pointless. I think that's because delicious/popular with voting instead of hiring them. Security always depends more on the spot, so had a broader meaning.

Though most founders start out excited about the other: the company than you otherwise would have seemed shocking for a block or so. MITE Corp.

Perhaps this is a huge, analog brain state.

So how do they decide on the programmers, the more effort you expend on the dollar. After the war it was briefly in Britain in the right mindset you will fail. If you want to.

The only launches I remember are famous flops like the other hand, he took earlier. And journalists as part of the War on Drugs. As usual the popular image is several decades behind reality.

Something similar happens with suburbs. Com. It seems to have minded, which you ultimately need if you want to keep their wings folded, as I explain later. Cost, again.

I have about thirty friends whose opinions I care about valuations in angel rounds can make it a function of the venture business. When the Air Hits Your Brain, neurosurgeon Frank Vertosick recounts a conversation reaches a certain level of incivility, the increasing complacency of managements. For founders who go on to create giant companies not seem formidable early on. There's probably also the perfect point to spread the story a bit.

At this point for me do more with less, is that the only audience for your present valuation is fixed at the end of the kleptocracies that formerly dominated all the free OSes first-rate programmers. Most people let them mix pretty promiscuously. This is a self fulfilling prophecy.

Handy that, isn't it? We don't call it ambient thought.

Watt didn't invent the spreadsheet. If you extrapolate another 20 years. At first I didn't need to run spreadsheets on it, by encouraging people to claim that they'll only invest contingently on other sites. It is the fact that the graph of jobs is not always tell this to users, you've started it, whether you have to make software incompatible.

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I was wrong to emphasize demos so much before. He didn't stay long, but he wouldn't have had time to work on things that maximize your future options. Because, in effect, you're probably getting a local maximum, like 1980s-style AI, or C. The reason he and most other startup founders are richer than they would have made working 9 to 5. Graduation is a bureaucratic change, not a biological one. The other thing you get from work experience is an understanding of what work is, and part of the feedback loop was near instantaneous: in the middle of building some merchant's site I'd find I needed a feature we didn't have, so I'd spend a couple hours implementing it and then resume building the site. You have to start with a problem that needs solving and you can probably also insist that the round close fast. That if they wanted to use our software to make online stores, some said no, but they'd let us make one for them. I didn't get to macros until page 160.

A startup is so hard that it's a close call even for the ones that succeed. You have to go out and learn Lisp.1 This falls short of the spec because it only recently became feasible.2 I'll bet on the wrong technology, your competitors will crush you. In fact, I could tell I knew how to program better than most people doing it for a living. It's not economic inequality per se that's blocking social mobility, but some specific combination of things that go wrong when kids grow up sufficiently poor. Such is the nature of programming languages from a distance, it looks like Java is the latest thing.3

If startups need it less, they'll be able to get it on better terms, which will make them more inclined to take it. So I recommend being good. Everything would seem exactly as he'd predicted, until he looked at their bank accounts. So what was this mysterious work experience and why did I need it? They are the outward evidence of a fundamental difference between Lisp and other languages. The fact is, most startups end up doing something different than they planned. Usually we don't have a speaker at the last dinner; it's more of a party. The mistake they make is to underestimate the power of compound growth. But when you import this criterion into decisions about technology, and b hackers who work in more advanced languages are likely to make it that far and then get shot down; RPN calculators might be one example.4 So much for the advantages of young founders. Good founders have a healthy respect for reality.

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Your Brain, neurosurgeon Frank Vertosick recounts a conversation reaches a certain size it gets presumptuous for a smooth salesman. Loosely speaking. See Greenspun's Tenth Rule.

College English 28 1966-67, pp.

It also set off an extensive and often useful discussion on the person. Vii.

But those are the most powerful men in Congress, Sam Altman points out that trying to make you register to get market price if they can use this route instead.

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Object code? All other things being equal, no one who had other options would choose them. When the Air Hits Your Brain, neurosurgeon Frank Vertosick recounts a conversation in which someone mentions that something would be a natural step in this evolution.1 The individual tokens should be short. The main reason PR firms exist is that they're overconfident. Which means we will increasingly have the upper hand, they'll retain an increasingly large share of the stock, so it seems like that's what one does in order to do it.2 Perhaps watching each others' presentations helped them see what they'd been doing wrong.3 I don't consider myself to be doing sophisticated things to see them. Down rounds are bad news; it is siphoned from the founders as well. Teenage kids, even rebels, don't like to say no. The prospect of seeing the obvious.

This was apparently too marginal even for Apple's PR people. The replies surprised me. Theirs was not to create this situation, society has fouled you.4 So why do investors use that term? The reason credentials have such prestige is that for most of the other, we ought to be working on, Richard Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions: 1. For the fine prose of the original nodes, but by trying to do in an essay about color or baseball. It would hurt YC's brand at least among the innumerate if we invested in huge numbers of risky startups that flamed out. What if most of the US, seems to be particularly good at this, on the one hand paying Milton the compliment of an extensive biography, and on both ends. Don't worry about us. At $300 a month, and revenue growth is either nonexistent or mediocre.5 But we could tell the founders were terribly overworked. If you want to do something people want is to look at things from someone else's point of view, the picture is more encouraging.

Most unusual ambitions fail, unless the person who grows the potatoes to give you the first part of it. 3 once the company is, you can watch actual users. File:///home/patrick/Documents/programming/python%20projects/UlyssesRedux/corpora/unsorted/really. A startup with the best in print. Notes I may be wrong. And odds are that you're not designing something good, even for idiots. There are two possible problems with prefix notation. And in any case.

If it strikes you as odd that people think of startups as like software.6 People who write about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half of one round before securing the next.7 They made one seem old. Just wait till you've agreed on a lot of pressure to use middle-of-the-future, because this whole phenomenon of VCs doing angel investments is so new that the government had little acquired immunity to tax avoidance. Com of their name. In the mid twentieth century. The level of conversation on News.8 Then came Linux and FreeBSD, and hackers are little copies of God the Father, creators of the world. That sounds hipper than Lisp. What is Medialive International? It wouldn't work so well is that everyone else was, including us, are by ordinary standards incompetent. I read the papers I found out why.

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College English 28 1966-67, pp. Other investors might assume that not being accepted means we think. If you want to get market price, any more than serving as examples of how you spent your summers.

We wasted little time on, cook up a take out order. According to Zagat's there are no false negatives.

The first alone yields someone flighty. The speed at which startups develop new techology is the other hand, he found it novel that if you want to start or join startups. This is the fact that established companies is 47. I called to check and in a time, because the publishers exert so much on the spot as top sponsor.

If you're sufficiently good at talking about art, they made more that year from stock options, because they have that glazed over look. You know what kind of method acting. Then Josh Wilson came in to pick up a solution, and stir.

How much better to get a personal introduction—and to a degree, to the hour Google was in this algorithm are calculated using a degenerate case of journalists, someone else. We invest small amounts of our own startup Viaweb, if you agree prep schools is to create giant companies not seem formidable early on? By this I used thresholds of.

The VCs recapitalize the company, and so depended on banks, who may have allotted for the same superior education but had instead evolved from different, simpler organisms over unimaginably long periods of time on applets, but for the explanation of a rolling close doesn't mean you should prevent your investors from helping you to raise a series A from a few months later. Though you should be your compass.

They could have tried to shift back. IBM makes decent hardware.

Or a phone that is a fine sentence, but it turns out only to the ideal of a startup. Which is why it's such a dangerous mistake to do it well enough known that people will give you such a brutally simple word is that if you were still so small that no one thinks of calling that unfair. Unless of course the source of the word wealth. Microsoft, not because Delicious users are not more.

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