Archive for the 'Hacks' Category
Books I Read
July 29th, 2008I updated my booklist which I link at the top of my blog. Please let me tell you a little about it.
Generating the Page
Organizing the Books
I use GoodReads to organize my books. James Currier, proprietor of MedPedia, invests in GoodReads. It lets me add books quickly and easily, plus I easily export the book list. [...]
Heart Rate
July 24th, 2008In PE in middle and high school, I always remember taking my pulse and having a very high resting heart rate relative to others. I forget the exact number, but it might have reached 80 beats per minute or higher. I always thought I counted incorrectly or double-counted.
I’ve started running and walking almost daily recently. [...]
YCombinator Application Guide
July 20th, 2008YCombinator, a kind of mini- venture capital firm, invests tens of thousands of dollars ($$$) into very early seed stage start-up companies run by smart technology hackers.
I applied to YCombinator two times. The first time, when I applied with my friend Mason for the Summer 2007 round, I arrogantly presumed that Paul would lavish on [...]
Make your own chimes
April 17th, 2008I just bought a Mac Mini. I love it. Apple spent a lot of time polishing OS X.
I configured OS X to create a chime, a 21-st century chime. In the Date & Time settings, I selected it to tell me the time every hour. At 6pm, a voice from the computer says, “It’s 6 [...]
How to check email two times a day
April 15th, 2008Tim Ferriss popularized the idea that you should limit the amount of time you spend checking email every day. He espouses a philosophy of life called the low-information diet. By following these guidelines, you get more done and, more importantly, feel less stressed.
One of his suggestions about email spread across the blogosphere very quickly because [...]
Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series (now on your iPhone!)
April 5th, 2008The Stanford Technology Ventures Program runs a well-developed incubator for tech businesses at Stanford University.
STVP offers some very cool resources free to the world. For example, I have been listening to their Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders audio podcast. The program brings in some of the greatest entrepreneurial forces in Silicon Valley today. Some [...]
Learn 100 digits of pi at lightning speed
March 14th, 2008Learn 100 digits of pi at lightning speed.
In a previous post, I wrote about the Secret to Pi. I wrote about the method I used to learn 100 digits of pi in under an hour and remember them days later without extra practice.
While memorizing the digits of pi using this method, I realized that I [...]
The Secret to Pi
March 13th, 2008NEW: I created a website designed designed to teach you dozens of digits of pi in minutes using this secret method. If you want more digits, I also open-sourced the code.
Tomorrow, around the country, schools and universities will be celebrating the ratio pi (π). Students and professors will eat blueberry pies, talk about math, and [...]
Stuff
November 26th, 2007Stuff sucks life out of you. Americans are brainwashed to consume more and more every day. Unfortunately, this consumerism is spreading around the world. It should stop. Although I’ve wanted to describe it here, I could not figure out a clear way to express the weightlessness I feel after having eliminated [...]
Tiles
November 21st, 2007When someone searches for your name on Google, you don’t know what they might find. They might find an article or two in which you were featured, or they might find a random post you made to an open source project. Or, they might find someone else and not know he is not [...]