ChipSkylark

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by ChipSkylark 3y ago
Identify who you and society views as the masters / what "mastery" is Immerse yourself in their world and surround yourself with them on a daily basis if possible (where/how they work, where they train, where they hang o
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by ChipSkylark 3y ago
Firstly, I believe people will buy almost anything if it's positioned and marketed to them correctly, so I wouldn't get discouraged if there are similar things out there at this stage. The trick is building and positioning a produ
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by ChipSkylark 3y ago
Hey all, Excited to share and solicit feedback for a project we're building to assist pre-sales and customer success teams in value selling for B2B SaaS solutions. HotStart is a pre-sales data integration platform that makes it easy to
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HotStart: B2B pre-sales tools to warm-start AI products and build value reports(yep.so)
1 points by ChipSkylark 3y ago|1 comments
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by ChipSkylark 3y ago
Always nice when the startup CEO emails you directly via CRM automation about your unique potential at the company and when you agree to chat he hands you off to the "senior technical recruiter". Always makes me feel extra special
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by ChipSkylark 3y ago
I'm picturing energetic and socially conscious "hip" 20-somethings doing a country-wide elementary school tour where the whole school gathers in an auditorium to watch them rap about the dangers of social media. If it works f
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by ChipSkylark 5y ago
Hey all, Chris from Upways here. Wanted to share a little bit about the story behind this and why I think its useful. Apologies in advance, this is a long one. During the pandemic I suffered from some serious burnout from a programming care
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Upways – Weekly stand-ups for your personal life(upways.co)
1 points by ChipSkylark 5y ago|1 comments
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by ChipSkylark 5y ago
I'm not a doctor or health professional of any kind. But my friend showed me a study a while back of turmeric supplementation and how it can be comparable and in some cases more effective than prozac: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm
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Ask HN: When's the last time you went 12 hours or more without a cell phone?
4 points by ChipSkylark 5y ago|5 comments
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by ChipSkylark 5y ago
Personal take/rant/experience: I fell in love with programming because I didn't give a shit about maintainability, architectural considerations, stressing vulns or holding a pager all night to support a living computer system
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by ChipSkylark 6y ago
Try scaling back all forms of social media + notification-based apps and start re-adding them incrementally, one variable at a time, and track how you feel and think in response to each new addition. It takes a while but opens your eyes to
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by ChipSkylark 6y ago
Being already known by my friends and family to be an "overthinker" and prone to "analysis paralysis", I sometimes wonder why I'm still a SWE. I've slowly started to realize over time that my profession is fill
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by ChipSkylark 6y ago
Large corporations like Amazon offset tax liability with tax credits from huge R&D expenditures [1], and those can be "moonshots" or highly innovative products that change the world. The famous CEOs quoted in this article take
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by ChipSkylark 6y ago
One more to the pile. My method: 1) Write down a clear S.M.A.R.T. goal or thing you want to do on a piece of paper (OKR style), a clear definition of why you are trying to do the thing, and when you should have it accomplished by. 2) On a s
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by ChipSkylark 7y ago
2 cents: Get off / moderate your social media, news media, TV show service intake - stop giving in to the comparison game that you can never win. When you play this game, you are living vicariously through the lives of others instead o
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by ChipSkylark 7y ago
Note: I realize this response sounds similar to what you have already tried, but it's slightly different in a way that might be useful to you. Background: senior year of college I took one of the deep learning courses my CS dept was of
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by ChipSkylark 7y ago
My friends like to talk about how awesome it would be to time travel or know what the outcome of a future decision will be. Even when armed with knowledge from observed outcomes of near-identical setup scenarios, majority of the time they e
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by ChipSkylark 7y ago
Sure. I came up with this method on my own but I'm sure someone else has already tried something similar and documented it. Take a piece of paper (or google doc) and put a theme or idea in a single sentence or line of text at the top.
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by ChipSkylark 7y ago
For me, this is one of the most valuable posts I have seen on hacker news. Thanks for sharing. I strengthen my writing muscle by writing down a foundational "anchor" concept at the top of the page and then writing about it in isol