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biastoact

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May 11, 2017 (9y ago)
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  1. Ask HN: What Makes a Great CTO?

    Once a company gets to a point where the first coder is no longer doing hero work on the platform and has to lead - what habits, attitudes, practices, and skills lead to greatness? Books or talks in the subject?

    15 points 2
  2. Ask HN: Incentivizing kids

    Recently the family and I went roller skating and I was reminded of a game our local roller rink put on when I was growing up. They would take a jar of pennies to the far end of the rink and spread them out. When the…

    10 points 2
  3. Ask HN: For those who travel a lot, what are you survival tips?

    I once ran into a guy coming down the hotel elevator with a portable bike. Brings it everywhere so he can always get a bike ride in. Now that I'm traveling a lot more, what have you found useful to say healthy mentally,…

    13 points 11
  4. Ask HN: Replacement for Facebook to keep grandma in the know

    The main value I find on Facebook is to keep a handful of friends, relatives, and grandparents up to date with photos and small news items. I actually don’t feel it is the best tool for this anymore, but it works for…

    4 points 14
  5. Ask HN: What does the first 90 minutes of your day look like?

    Insured by Daymond John’s ansewer on reddit, how does the first 90 minutes of your day look? https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7s8wup/comment/dt2ygg2

    2 points 3
  6. Ask HN: What book changed your life in the last year?

    I have a couple, Captivate by Vanessa Van Edwards has taught me, among other things, to think ‘murder’ anytime I put my hands in my pockets. And The Warrior diet has changed how I eat, even though I have read it yet.…

    3 points 2
  7. John Cleese lecture on creativity, sleeping on problems (2010) (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  8. Ask HN: How do you show appreciation?

    After getting a particularly well timed and well intentioned email that made my day a while back I've started to proactively seek ways to show appreciation to others. Not flattery, but taking the time to call out the…

    2 points 0
  9. Ask HN: What was your one hit wonder?

    I recently was browsing a friends very old and outdated personnel website and ran across links to a video he created in the early days of Youtube/Google Video that had gone viral (Digg, Reddit, TV interviews, newspaper…

    3 points 0
  10. Ask HN: How have you successfully simplified your life?

    I’ve read that the likes of Barrack Obama, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg built daily uniforms for themselves. Others have moved into Tiny houses, or moved to all cash to limit spending, or eliminated political news…

    29 points 41
  11. Lack of sleep causes people to take risky decisions (dailymail.co.uk)
    1 points 0
  12. Family Adventure Summit (familyadventuresummit.com)
    2 points 0
  13. Ask HN: Where to find a “who is hiring” for the business side?

    I think the monthly hiring threads are brilliant. Cutting through the recruiting cruft of job sites to show real opportunities posted (predominately) by real people embedded with the companies. My question is, where is…

    4 points 0
  14. BBC: How sleep makes you more creative (2013) (bbc.com)
    1 points 0
  15. John Cleese lecture on creativity, sleeping on problems (2010) (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  16. Ask HN: What's the cleverest or most indispensable recipe you've seen for IFTTT?

    For IFTTT, Microsoft Flow, Zapier, etc: what are the cleverest or most useful recipes you've seen? I ask because a lot of the examples seem to lack vision. It's fun to get an email when you upload a photo, or retweet a…

    4 points 0