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neurobuddhaon Startup Reading List

A real entrepreneur wouldn't bother reading these books. They'd be too busy working on their idea and learning firsthand.

I've read two titles from this list (The Lean Startup and Trust Me, I’m Lying) and halfway through both realised I knew it already.

No book has all the answers. It's better to attack a business idea intelligently in your own unique way.

neurobuddhaon The Fat Free Revolution That Gave America Diarrhea

Another good read that's akin to Pricenomics is Tedium: http://tedium.co. I get it about once a week in my inbox, and unlike most email newsletters I actually read this one.

neurobuddhaon Elevated Bus Rides Over Traffic to Avoid Congestion

Who says China doesn't innovate?

neurobuddhaon Search Bangs

Duck Go !Bang: http://duckgobang.com is a blog that tests bangs (some listed on Duck Duck Go are broken) and showcases the most useful ones.

Bangs are such a cool search hack, I wonder why more people don't use it.

neurobuddhaon Show HN: DuckGoBang – The Best Bangs for the Duck

Some bangs listed there are broken, others lead to really crappy websites. Duck Go Bang tests the bangs and chooses only the most useful ones, hence the motto "Best Bangs for the Duck".

neurobuddhaon Trello – $10M ARR, 14M signups, 150,000 New Weekly Users

Recently released a self-hosted Trello alternative called Wheatbin: http://wheatbin.com. It combines Kanban with the Law of the Harvest.

It's 100 percent free, open source and available on Github.

neurobuddhaon For some, meditation has become more curse than cure

I meditate two hours a day, every day. Mostly Zazen. I haven't experienced mental breakdowns. However, when I first started using imagery as a focal point, I would weep uncontrollably about mid-way through my meditation session. I think it was a release of pent-up emotion.

It lasted about a week and then stopped completely.

neurobuddhaon Open sourcing a Contracted project: I toggled the “public” switch, now what?

This article seems relevant for my situation. A few days ago I released project management software called Wheatbin: http://wheatbin.com. It's my first contribution to Open Source.

The github repo is here: https://github.com/wheatbin/wheatbin

The software works great for my needs, but it would be nice to see Wheatbin evolve through community involvement. I wasn't sure if that happened organically or if there were things I could do to get that started.

neurobuddhaon What I Learned From an Unsuccessful Launch

Your article is timely. Two days ago I went live on my first github project called Wheatbin: http://wheatbin.com and I'm not sure what to expect.

Thanks for sharing your insights. And Vym is a great name!

neurobuddhaon The slow death of purposeless walking (2014)

That product page is the mobile version. Here is a better shot: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0042SNCGA/ref=oh_aui_detai...

neurobuddhaon The slow death of purposeless walking (2014)

I go on longs walks a lot, and a few months ago I bought a poker stick to pick up the plastic bottles I see littered everywhere. My walks are no longer purposeless, but I feel better when I come back with a garbage bag of plastic that will be recycled rather then end up in our soil and water supply.

Here's the poker stick I bought: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B0042SNCGA/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UT...

neurobuddhaon Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

Not free, but Inoreader is very, very good: http://www.inoreader.com

I never did the Google Reader thing, so I'm not sure how they compare though.

neurobuddhaon Wheatbin – Open Source Productivity Software Based on the Law of the Harvest

And it's a Passport too :)

I optimised the software to look extra good on the Blackberry Passport.

neurobuddhaon Introducing power saving mode in Opera for computers

Opera is staging and making some last minute "value adds" before selling to a Chinese Tech company: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-10/opera-soft...

It has nothing to do with surviving. They just want to cash out.

neurobuddhaon Save Firefox

Doesn't Mozilla have a lucrative deal with Yahoo? I mean Yahoo!

neurobuddhaon Poultry Workers in Diapers as Bathroom Breaks Denied, Oxfam Says

This story was charging up the front page and then all the sudden it's near the bottom of page two. What's up with that?

neurobuddhaon Why do old statues have such small penises?

Not a lot of insight in this article. Is it on the front page for the giggles?

neurobuddhaon Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies from Using Analytics Service

Facebook is a large company that needs to lobby the federal government on a variety of issues, which necessitates a presence in DC.

What a ridiculous statement. I wish I had enough karma to downvote you.

neurobuddhaon Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies from Using Analytics Service

Twitter is infamous for censorship and shadowbanning non-politically correct views. Lately they have been suppressing Bernie Sanders supporters[1] and anti-Hillary activists[2].

Twitter is a truly two-faced Orwellian enterprise that is completely in the back pocket of Big Brother.

[1] https://www.change.org/p/petition-request-twitter-not-to-sup...

[2] http://www.vocativ.com/290811/twitter-accused-of-censoring-a...

neurobuddhaon Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay

Early in her tenure Mayer spent days tweaking the Yahoo! logo. A bad "sign" to be sure.

neurobuddhaon Littergram: Cleaning Britain one picture at a time

I agree. It's better to just sit here and sulk. Hopefully the problem of litter will just go away.

neurobuddhaon Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry

If you know how to make stuff, you'll be okay. Be punk about it. It's not about talent, it's about delivering a product people will buy.

If you want someone to talk to (someone who is doing this), my contact info is in my profile.

neurobuddhaon The Looting of ShapeShift

I was thinking more along these lines: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/dont-swe...

neurobuddhaon Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy

So I guess this an attempt to add value to push the deal through.

neurobuddhaon Why I don't want to do anything with my life

To hanyoddha: consider drawing comics, even if it's just as a side-hobby. You have a signature style that looks fresh. And some people actually make a lot of money doing that.

neurobuddhaon Why I don't want to do anything with my life

How is the article a "bizarre attempt at reverse psychology"? I didn't get that at all. Genuinely curious how you arrived at that conclusion.

neurobuddhaon Deepjazz: AI-generated 'jazz'

Coming from an avid Jazz listener, this is awful. Not even close.

I don't mean this as a slight at all, but definitely raise the bar on your experiments.

neurobuddhaon Show HN: I made a Hacker News for podcasts

I'd give it a more professional look. Branding can go a long way here.

neurobuddhaon Show HN: I made a Hacker News for podcasts

I'd start submitting your site to different subreddits to ensure a diverse selection in your listings. Hold off on submitting to Designer News though, until you improve the site UX. As it is now, they will completely ignore it.

Still, it looks like you're off to a good start!

neurobuddhaon Canadian Police Obtained BlackBerry’s Global Decryption Key

Blackberry deserves props for experimentation and their surprising good OS 10, but if Priv is shorthand for privacy, then that's veering close to dishonesty.

Darn happy with my Passport though.