Archive for the 'Life' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dried Pineapple
March 5th, 2008Dried Pineapple is Crazy Delicious
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Overcoming Bias
December 9th, 2007Overcoming Bias is the best blog on the Internet today. You should subscribe to it immediately. Whether you are a student, engineer, waitress, philosopher, or as long as you have and use a brain, you should read this blog regularly.
Overcoming Bias explains wrong thinking in science and everyday life. They often point [...]
Only do things that you like
November 27th, 2007and you will do them well. If you don’t like something, then you are doing it wrong, thinking about it wrong.
Paul Graham:
“If you think something’s supposed to hurt, you’re less likely to notice if you’re doing it wrong.”
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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 [...]
bored
November 24th, 2007From Hofstadter’s Godel, Escher, Bach:
That is, it seems to me, a general principle: you get bored with something not when you have exhausted its repertoire of behavior, but when you have mapped out the limits of the space that contains its behavior.
I’ll call it Hofstadter’s Law. I think that Hofstadter wanted to call something [...]
Zen
November 2nd, 2007In Godel, Escher, Bach’s chapter on Zen:
Here is another koan which aims to break the mind of logic:
The student Doko came to a Zen master, and said: “I am seeking the truth. In what state of mind should I train myself, so as to find it?”
Said the master, “There is no mind, so you [...]
What would you do if you were fabulously wealthy
October 13th, 2007From a NextJump survey:
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12. Visualize a rosy scenario where the company you are working for goes through a wildly profitable public offering, and you personally make enough money from your equity share to enjoy lifetime financial independence. Freed from the need to hold down a job just to meet the financial obligations of your chosen [...]