nhoven

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by nhoven 9mo ago
Of course! Gamification (and other extrinsic motivators) are best used sparingly and short-term in order to get over an initial hump before something fun or easy. Think of climbing a hill to get to a playground. Basically, our goal is to ma
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by nhoven 9mo ago
Hi - Mentava founder here (we make gamified early literacy software). Obviously I believe in the value of gamification, though I think it's difficult to do correctly. There's certainly a market for "calm" learning, thoug
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by nhoven 9mo ago
Hi, Mentava founder here. Almost all of our investors are in AngelList RUVs so there's zero overhead Some of our most helpful investors only put in $1000 and the RUV made it easy to accept their money
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Pizza Hut Taiwan Knows It's Making Italians Angry(atlasobscura.com)
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The Reality of Educational Reading Apps(mentava.com)
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AI #1: Sydney and Bing(thezvi.substack.com)
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Erythema Ab Igne(en.wikipedia.org)
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The first ever Comcast bill negotiated 100% with A.I and LLMs(twitter.com)
2 points by nhoven 4y ago|1 comments
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How Blizzard's lizard broke a 10 year old loot system and sparked a player war(old.reddit.com)
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How One Mechanic Kept Breaking Hearthstone(old.reddit.com)
1 points by nhoven 4y ago|0 comments
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by nhoven 4y ago
Great post! At this moment, I'm passionate about childhood education. There are plenty of challenges in education to be tackled, but the one that I feel needs more attention and isn't getting it is seeing high-achieving students b
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I got 50 high-profile angel investors to join our seed round(mentava.com)
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by nhoven 4y ago
Mentava | Founding engineer | REMOTE-FIRST north american timezones Mentava is building software to support independent, accelerated K12 learning. We’re backed by Quiet, Floodgate, and more than 50 amazing angels like Garry Tan, Tim Ferriss
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The category “reptile” doesn't make evolutionary sense unless you include birds(twitter.com)
2 points by nhoven 4y ago|2 comments
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Many have asked for a copy of this book, here are all the pages in this thread(twitter.com)
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Sticky tape trick led to Nobel Prize (2010)(bbc.com)
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Top Posts from /R/Weirddalle(old.reddit.com)
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by nhoven 4y ago
Mentava | Founding Engineer, Founding Art Director | Remote | $100k-$200k base | 1%-5% equity Mentava is building software to support accelerated K12 learning. With gifted programs getting cut nationwide, it’s the perfect time. Customers ar
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Oxytocin nasal spray apparently makes an autistic guy not autistic(twitter.com)
43 points by nhoven 5y ago|17 comments
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A Single Register Value(blog.cloudflare.com)
1 points by nhoven 5y ago|0 comments
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What Percentage of AngelList Seed-Stage Startups Become Unicorns?(angellist.com)
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Egg Cream(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nhoven 5y ago
The author (as she admits herself) is in a pretty good situation - she has a very meaningful amount of stock options, a respectable salary, and she enjoys her job. Consider how much worse the situation gets when that last one isn't tru
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by nhoven 5y ago
I just happened to find this 2017 article about fungi growing on the exterior of the space station. I wouldn't be surprised if extremophile fungi turn out to be widespread in space after all http://cosmology.com/SpaceFu
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Space Fungi Are Attacking the Space Stations (2017)(cosmology.com)
3 points by nhoven 5y ago|0 comments
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Coronavirus: Links, Speculation, Open Thread(slatestarcodex.com)
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by nhoven 7y ago
U2F is under active development. My team is actually working on it as we speak
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Why data made design worse and how to make it better(uxplanet.org)
1 points by nhoven 8y ago|0 comments
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Evidence Shows Hackers Changed Votes in the 2016 Election but No One Admits It(theroot.com)
58 points by nhoven 8y ago|42 comments
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Watercooler Moments: How to design products that generate word of mouth(nielshoven.com)
2 points by nhoven 8y ago|0 comments

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