mariedavid

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   by mariedavid 5y ago

   Yes, I didn't expect so many answers !! I have a whole page of reading recommendations now. Just have to choose where to start.
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   by mariedavid 5y ago

   Thanks for all your recomendations, especially the BBC documentary. I'm really interested in Gödel and Cantor.
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   by mariedavid 5y ago

   I'll add this one to my list, thanks !
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   by mariedavid 5y ago

   I loved this book when I read it indeed. Really comprehensive and smart.
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   by mariedavid 5y ago

   Thanks, I had read some Feyerabend essays a few years ago. This is indeed instead thought provoking.
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   by mariedavid 5y ago

   Thanks, I'll add the John Stillwell book to my reading list. And thanks for the idea of watching the newer "Cosmos" series. I'm always looking for ideas for shows to watch with my son!
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   by mariedavid 5y ago

   Thanks, I have heard a lot about Bill Bryson but never took the time to read it. I will start with this one.
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   Ask HN: Any recommendation for a good History of Science book?

   85 points by mariedavid 5y ago|92 comments
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   by mariedavid 5y ago

   I went back to college and started a bachelor in philosophy in a specific cursus tailored for people with a full time job. Met plenty of fantastic people with various backgrounds.
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    Business & work : Deep Work - Cal Newport, Anti fragile - Nassim Taleb CNV : Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. Marshall Rosenberg "spiritual" or wisdom related : Tao Te King, Marcus Aurelius, the Gospel, Meditatio
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    Hello I am myself learning React right now. I love this website : https://daveceddia.com/ He provides a free 5-day intro course which is well-paced and gives you already plenty to start with. Then he offers a full fledged p
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    I faced the same question and ended joining a climate-tech company (www.carbometrix.com). There are plenty of tech jobs in the climate tech, you can read Climate Tech VC newsletter - they have a good job board. DM me if you want to discuss
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    "How do they deal with vulnerability, or being wrong, or someone else being wrong?" this is indeed an excellent question. I had so many difficulties in the past with engineers who where "never wrong". Thanks very useful
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    I deleted the app on my Iphone. I don't regret at all. My mind seems clearer, not swamped into unnecessary content curated by the algorithms. I loved Instagram because I love painting, and photography, and visual arts in general but th
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    this is excellent advice ! it sounds much better indeed to have the candidate working on concrete problems we are trying to solve. Thanks
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    Thanks very useful !
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    Ask HN: Do you have good tips for tech interviews?

    12 points by mariedavid 5y ago|21 comments
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    At work : to manage the onboarding of newcomers, to organize our weekly strategic meeting (we have a page where we share our subjects and reflexions), to organize the engineering wiki and more generally the knowledge of the team on various
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    I started Zettelkasten a few months ago as I had the idea to write more, think more, and create a blog. But the system crumbled -by lack of time- as I finally ended working full time as a start-up founder... My insight is that Zettelkasten
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    I've been struggling with this same question the past two years by scaling up a machine learning team (our job was to design and put into production various machine learning-based products for the company). When the team was small, the
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    thanks ;-) it seems hard indeed to find the right level of information to put in each entry(fact vs thinking) and not to overstore information
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    Deep Work, by Cal Newport : to focus on what matters. The talent code, by Danie Coyle : to understand the value of deliberate practice. Brain at work, astonishingly useful mixing practical neuroscience and concrete situations. Getting thing
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    I confirm. All Cal Newport's writing (book+blog) really help to understand how our attention is hijacked, and concentrate and make time for what really matters. As far as I'm concerned I suppressed all distracting apps on my smart
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    Ask HN: Do you use zettelkasten? What have gou gained from the experience?

    2 points by mariedavid 5y ago|2 comments
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    reading Why we sleep, by Matthew Walker. After reading this book I decided to put sleep quality above everything and it helped me take the adequate measures. What worked for me was : lowering my caffeine intake (no more than 2 coffee), no c
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    Tara Brach - Radical Acceptance was a game changer. Otherwise : trying to focus on having enough sleep (i.e. staying away from screen at night + enough exercise). Trying to put things into perspective (curiously reading history books helped
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    For the team I used to manage, I told them that I was not going control the hours they put in as long as the job was done, and the emergencies were handled. Turned out that I had to restrict them to work for too long and I constantly had to
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    by mariedavid 5y ago

    1. stop the noise. I deleted my twitter, facebook and instagram account and my mind is much clearer. 2. spot people who are independent thinkers and read as much as you can from them (my favorite one being Nicholas Nassim Taleb, Charlie Mu