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Question to those of you who are in the program: what Pioneer perk is most valuable to you? Is it access to the Pioneer social network? Or the status signal for being part of a startup accelerator? Surely it's not the help with incorporation or the round-trip ticket to SFO.

https://twitter.com/danialranjha/status/1212991364142551041

Let's say it's your phone first thing in the morning that is causing this problem. You could put your phone and charger far away from your bed. Then establish a sequence of actions that take you from bed to desk, without getting anywhere near your phone.

This is not an all-or-nothing method, where you fail even if you miss one step in the sequence in your routine. You start by making one or two adjustments and then build on your success.

On AWS if I want to run a model that requires a lot of RAM (or compute, or whatever) I can have it up and running in minutes without thinking too much about it.

Yes, I pay a premium, but the experience is just superior to anything the value hosting services provide. I find the same to be true for the most part in Azure as well.

I'm happy seeing this comparison, however. It gives me a good sense of just how much of a premium I'm paying. Thanks for doing this.

Other popular publications that use custom domains on Medium: https://m.signalvnoise.com/ https://medium.economist.com/ https://blog.coinbase.com/

It's now deprecated for new services, though.

The problem is worse than being de-ranked for your keywords. The search is downright broken. Searching for 'predictive weight loss tracker', 'predictive weight tracker', anything with 'tracker' yields no results on my phone. Removing 'tracker' and only searching for 'Predictive Weight' or 'Predictive Weight Loss' gives me only one result: Happy Scale.

It almost seems like they're filtering your app on the 'tracker' keyword. That's not fair!

As for the delivery service, I have had a love-hate relationship with Amazon Fresh as well as Prime Now WF delivery in the past. Having analyzed the situation a little I realize that my satisfaction with their service is a reflection of my state of mind. Outside of some blatant delivery issues such as the leaving my groceries on a busy arterial in the vicinity of my home (yes, actually happened), I have been unhappy when there wasn't an immediate need for the groceries. This is when I tend to notice issues such as price discrepancies, or poorly substituted items, etc. I have been much happier when there is a burning need, such as being exceptionally busy and not having time to make a grocery run that week. That's when the smaller issues tend to go unnoticed.

I am glad to have their delivery service available. Once a month or so I find things to be quite chaotic, and find it quite easy to launch an app on my phone and get groceries a few hours later. Instacart is similarly convenient, but none of the other stores I have tried (Safeway, Costco, etc.) come even close. They all suck sometimes, but the WF/Amazon experience seems to sucks less.

Somewhat related, if you have friends going through a major life event such as having a baby, receiving the gift of free grocery delivery will make them very happy.

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I do want to note that once the cards are added to Anki, it will force you to review the card at the right times automatically to keep retention high. This is assuming you have a system that forces you to review Anki content daily. I am not sure how big of a difference it will make to keep retention high if you're not adding cards manually.

There are two ways to download my Kindle highlights. Either I can scrape it from read.amazon.com, or I can mount the device as a usb disk and parse the notes file from there. Neither is ideal for set-and-forget automation.

Keep me posted on your progress if you decide to tackle this problem.

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I don't highlight analysis and commentary. I don't highlight how the author reached a certain conclusion, just the end result.

Some examples of what I am highlighting while reading On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins:

"This is the neocortex, a thin sheet of neural tissue that envelops most of the older parts of the brain."

"the neocortex is about 2 millimeters thick and has six layers,"

"Stretched flat, the human neocortical sheet is roughly the size of a large dinner napkin. The cortical sheets of other mammals are smaller: the rat’s is the size of a postage stamp; the monkey’s is about the size of a business-letter envelope."

I wish there was a good way to transfer these highlights from my Kindle into Anki flashcards automatically (if someone knows a way to do this, I'm happy to hear from you). It feels like a chore right now, so I often forget to do it.

My spaced repetition system requires that I copy ideas I want to recall. I'm sharing my summary of the main ideas in case they help you.

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# Learning by Building Connection

New ideas have to connect with what’s already there — they cannot be stored, as if in a filing cabinet.

Throwing facts at people doesn’t work. You have to: * connect ideas to other ideas and everyday things

* understand an idea in multiple ways (e.g. words, visuals, etc.)

* once you make connections, you have to maintain them

* you don’t need to unlearn connections to make room for new ones

# Maintaining what you learned

Recalling is better for retention than re-reading. Spacing effect shows that we forget things quickly the first time we see it, but if you exert effort to recall things spaced over increasing intervals of time, you retain a lot more than if you were cramming.

# Learning through deep connections

You have to process ideas on a deep level to make them stick. A great way to learn something at a deeper level is to explain it to someone.

We all have different perspectives because the lenses with which we see the world are different. It’s possible you didn’t enjoy it because you’re not avid fantasy explorer gamer. Maybe you didn’t need an introduction to what ECS is.

Cal Newport seems to think GTD is flawed because it doesn't help you prioritize meaningful work: http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/12/21/getting-unremarkable-t...

Here is the correct link: https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...

He wrote it in HolyC language which is an interesting project on its own: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/HolyC.html.

You can change the OS because of the JIT compiler, run the compiler, and overwrite the running OS.

The command line is interesting. It feeds directly into a JIT compiler, so you have things like Cd("..").

It runs in a single memory space, so processes communicate with each other by writing to each others memory space.

It's built by one person without feedback or collaboration with others.

There are code walk throughs available that you can learn from: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TOSVideos.html

I am still waiting on the ability to view issues on a board across a group (or now, a subgroup). Since Gitlab projects are repo-centric, I have hard time tracking issues across many repositories in a single place. A board that is visible at a group-level would solve this problem.

I believe this is a feature that's coming soon, though. I am looking forward to it.

You can't ignore stocks because they will often cap your base salary and pay the rest in stocks. For example, a VP at one of these may have their annual compensation at $X,XXX,XXX per year but only receive $1XX,XXX in base salary. This is true for developers as well, but the ratio of base to total compensation is skewed more towards base compared to a VP.

Also note that there are some very distinguished engineers at these companies whose role isn't people or business manager who would receive as much as, and sometimes more than, a highly compensated VP.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cjoxjb1pk1lmo5b/Hardware%20hacking...

Deep Work - Cal Newport

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Angela Duckworth

Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise - Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool

The War of Art - Steven Pressfield

Do the Work - Steven Pressfield

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Phil Knight

The one that surprised me the most was the last one on that list. I don't usually read memoirs but this one was recommended by a few people so I picked it up and found the honesty with which he describes his mistakes refreshing and useful.

From Wikipedia:

Since its inception, the Edhi Foundation has rescued over 20,000 abandoned infants, rehabilitated over 50,000 orphans and has trained over 40,000 nurses. It also runs over three hundred and thirty welfare centres in rural and urban Pakistan which operate as food kitchens, rehabilitation homes, shelters for abandoned women and children and clinics for the mentally handicapped.

Edhi Foundation runs the world's largest ambulance service and operates free nursing homes, orphanages, clinics, women's shelters, and rehab centres for drug addicts and mentally ill individuals. It has run relief operations in Africa, Middle East, the Caucasus region, eastern Europe and United States where it provided aid following the New Orleans hurricane of 2005.

He owned two pairs of clothes, never took a salary from his organisation and lived in a small two bedroom apartment over his clinic in Karachi.

Explanation: If $X is standard pay for a developer, you are asking for $X/2, in return for founder equity. This gives both parties a stake in the success of the company.

The developer is motivated to prioritize good ideas and the product person has some assurance that the engineering is invested in the idea.