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by shansense 1y ago
Empor.top - https://empor.top the stories of top companies. Highly engaging and readable long form stories (AI generated). Primarily, I made it for myself but in the last 30 days I got >10k hits so I'm contemplating maki
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by shansense 2y ago
I've been an individual contributor and a manager as well. here's my simple guide to make the most of 1:1 1. Talk about getting a promotion (even if you don't want one) - this will help you get better regardless 2. Talk about
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by shansense 2y ago
My list: 1. The mom test (already mentioned) - idea validation 2. Zero to one by Thiel - contrarian original thinking 3. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz - Operating lessons 4. Paul Grahams essays and pretty much all conte
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by shansense 2y ago
Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley comes to mind. Loved it when I read it and opened my mind to a new level of programming
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by shansense 6y ago
That the Amazon soil is actually very poor in nutrients and the dust from the Sahara desert is actually what keeps the Amazon rainforest alive. Long ago the South American and African continents were one. To think of it, there is still a ma
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by shansense 6y ago
Absolutely! Let me also put other things in perspective: 1. Any “investment” is basically putting your resources in the hands of others (planners, CEOs of other companies etc) in the hopes that they can manage the money better than you. Thi
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by shansense 6y ago
David Wheeler: "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" (the "fundamental theorem of software engineering").
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by shansense 8y ago
Second this. Taleb's Black Swan and Spitznagel's Dao of Capital especially were extremely thought provoking and have changed the course of my life. I read them every year at least.