Thanks to Get Rich Slowly (love that name) for hosting the latest Carnival of Personal Finance, and for including my article about how I saved $20,000 in two weeks by reading a book (and more importantly applying its lessons).
Also, thanks to Swiecki’s Blog for including my post about setting up WordPress on Windows in their […]
Written by Parker on August 12th, 2006 with no comments.
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Steve Pavlina’s overcoming fear podcast is one of my all-time favorites.
It starts off as expected, but veers off in a surprising direction and ends up being a fantastically lucid explanation of a difficult concept. I agree with his conclusions, here’s why:
(Warning— amateur philosophizing ahead, please use caution!)
If there is 1 person in a room, […]
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OODA loops originated from Colonel John Boyd’s experiences as a jet-fighter pilot in the Korean War. He synthesized his observations about dogfighting with intense studies of history and philosophy to create a fascinating way of thinking about thinking. OODA stands for Observe Orient Decide Act. From what I understand of Colonel Boyd’s ideas, […]
Written by Parker on August 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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This weekend the AOL research team made public a file which contains logs showing the searches performed by approximately half a million users over the course of three months. Article about it here. The AOL engineers claimed that they had anonymized the data so that the users who performed the searches could not be […]
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I recently saw the amazing deep sea episode of BBC’s Blue Planet documentary series. If you are a fan of HP Lovecraft and “horrors from the deep” kind of stuff, you will love this show.
Watching this episode and the more pleasant “open ocean” episode that it’s paired with, I got wondering: what causes deep […]
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