1/ What I learned from fucking up my @ycombinator interview.
(I mean, it's obligatory, right?)
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@dhh popularized "constraints are liberating!" at least in my mind. 10 minutes of fast questions is a liberating constraint. But, it's generally applicable.Show this thread -
6/ I live in code, math, IDEs, note taking applications, notebooks, editors, and all manner of brain extensions. They're wonderful tools! But I think I'm going to start spending time just sitting with my thoughts, decanting them, no tools allowed.
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7/ Lots of problems are too big for your head. Hell, pretty much all of them are. (
@paulg's essay on this for programming is good.) http://www.paulgraham.com/head.htmlShow this thread -
8/ But spending time with it in your head alone trying to find a compelling answer or explanation or process relies upon a funny constraint and often uncomfortable — your unassisted cognition (and tightly-binding working memory).
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9/ What remains when you're done? Well, it may not be THE ANSWER. But if it's compelling, it's probably a good explanation, at least of your understanding if nothing else.
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this has all sorts of obvious bad bias, and probably explains why startups do too? nevertheless, they may be correctly targeting some of what leads to successful startups. chicken and egg. but they have an opportunity to change this.
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