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Everyone should read Mindset by Carol Dweck http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Success-Carol-Dweck/dp/1400062756

I think that it is a very important book. It is like a self-help book -- without the fluff and with science behind it. It talks about "growth-oriented mindset" (who focus on learning) versus "fixed mindset" (who think that intelligence is a fixed thing). And most people have both mindsets in different areas. And main point is you can change your mindset and what a difference that makes: you aren't afraid of looking bad (for a fixed mindset person, looking bad will amount to "i'm stupid", "i don't have it"). But for a growth minded person, looking bad simply means that they haven't put in the necessary time/effort to get better.

This is why you should never praise a child's intelligence. Eventually the child will think that "I was born with this talent" and will stop putting in the effort, and will become stuck -- that is, they were prodigies while growing up. But now, as an adult, they haven't progressed any further.

A really great book!!

I'm on a WindowsXP desktop right now. I'm planning to get the 15" 2.33GHz MacBook Pro, w/ 160GB hard drive. I don't know why they don't offer the 7200rpm hard drives. Won't the 5400 be noticeable slow?

Interviews with teams that created: Flash, iPhone, Google Talk (heard that they won the Google Founders award), Akamai

(ok maybe these are trade secrets that companies won't release -- but it'll be really cool...)

Their strenghts, how they work, what "process" they follow etc

what do you guys think?

and 99% of what we program (from GJS or Knuth or someone like that)

link: http://www.oopsla.org/2005/ShowEvent.do?id=403

this google video is also cool: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2726904509434151616&q=gerald+sussman

anyone have any sussman stories they'll like to share?

i don't know what teleflip does, but this app has started out of a basic need: when i'm away from my computer, i would like to know if i have received any (important) emails. right now it truncates an email to 140 characters, so you can't read the entire mail (most of the time) -- just know the sender and subject and the first line...

if someone wants to work with me on this, email me (sri at defcraft dot org). work to take this public (right now it won't handle a massive load) -- it is build with ruby on rails and python, so if you have productions experience with rails -- that'll be helpful.

btw it only works for cell phones in the US. and on popular carriers... (using the email-to-sms interface the carriers provide -- for example if you send an email to PHONENUMBER@tmomail.net, then a sms message will be delivered to PHONENUMBER) see the lifehacker link that sam odio provides above.

Itunes allows you to play the downloaded movies and songs on upto 5 computers (and you can reset them once a year). So how about a service that'll allow people (friends) to share movies and songs.

So it'll be fesible to have people who share lots of the same interests, to share.

IANAL, so something like this even legal?

got it thanks!!

sri at defcraft dot org please

looks super cool. the ad is quite nice. and done by the founders of skype and kaaza (!) i predict that within 10 months it'll sell for $10 billion to microsoft. there, i said it!

i just noticed this -- i'm logged in and i visit www.fluidplay.com, it doesn't redirect me to /sri, and i end up staring at the create form, and "sri, what it do, baby?" at the top. clicking on the "sri" (which is kinda small), takes me to /sri -- (i would consider the /sri part my dashboard, and should be redirected there if i am signed in, when visiting fluidplay.com....)

hmmm....looks cool. so will it be possible for me to stream my itunes music with this tool?

i see your are using rails frontend. what's the fluidplay exe written in?

(btw, i always like to keep text boxes that are underneath each other (username, password, email) -- the same length. it looks better, imho)

cool -- thanks for that!

Startup Law Generates Terms of Service, Privacy Policy. I know nothing about this area, so this might be a really dumb idea.

If that doesn't work, at least a O'Reilly book that talks about these issues...

What do you guys think?

I saw it on NBC. The attitude of the anchor was "Oh, you are on camera 24/7 -- that's crazy -- and people are actually watching it -- you go to the bathroom, shower on camera -- that's crazy."

And the always cheap "You're probably getting more dates now..." and at the end, "Keep your shirt on, buddy" (in a mocking way).

It was pretty silly. I thought Justin could've answered a little better -- he should have compared Justin.tv to the reality TV shows. When Survivor (the 1st big reality TV show) came out, it was crazy popular and of course the pundits were like, "Its all a fad...", blah, blah, blah. But of course, they were all wrong.

Like that, Justin should have marketed Justin.tv as the next generation in Reality TV, which couldn't happen on TV because of technology constraints -- it could only happen on the Net. And compare himself to the creator of Survivor, to give the public an image of the pioneer that he is and what he could accomplish....

just my (cents 2)

great article paul. i especially love number 7: produce something specific for yourself. this forces you to notice problems and noticing your own problems and overcoming them with technology is a subset of noticing problems of others and using technology to help them, which is the job of startups and companies... so IMHO, noticing and solving your own problems is a fundamental skill people in startups need to have.

that technique works because most of us have been conditioned to ignore the problems that we encounter daily. when faced with a problem we simply side step, avoid the problem and keep marching. the entrepreneurs are the ones who stop, notice the problem (or opportunity) and help us get things done easier.