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What I did this summer by Paul Graham
Some of interesting sentences here. But do read in full.
…success in a startup depends mainly on how smart and energetic you are, and much less on how old you are or how much business experience you have.
..if you let motivated people do real work, they work hard, whatever their age.
…People this age are commonly seen as lazy. I think in some cases it’s not so much that they lack the appetite for work, but that the work they’re offered is unappetizing.
Like good athletes, they don’t work hard because the coach yells at them, but because they want to win.
As well as working hard, the groups all turned out to be extraordinarily responsible.
These guys want to get rich, but they want to do it by changing the world.
As hard as people will work for money, they’ll work harder for a cause.
…startups run by hackers tend to do better than those run by MBAs.
competitors are rarely as dangerous as they seem.
The main function of your initial version is to be rewritten.
It was surprising– slightly frightening even– how fast they learned.
Power is shifting from the people who deal with money to the people who create technology..

Getz set to go with Sania mania Hmm..

You Can Talk Good Ideas Out of Existence - Vikram Seth [Via Indian Writing]
..it’s pure chance whether you are born a man or woman, pure chance whether you are born Hindu or Muslim.So you just have to consider that we could have been born as each other and therefore there is no particular reason for aggrandising yourself just because you happen to be born a man, because you happen to be born a Hindu, or in a particular class of society.

I write a book that earns a good advance every six or seven years and in the meantime I try to live off that.

[All the following are Via Simplicity]

Samy, their hero
I was never that good at JavaScript, but most developers that know one language can pick up other languages pretty easily. The worm was my intro to and first time using Ajax, and I learned a few other things while developing it.
I’ve never created a worm or planned to in the past.
I absolutely wanted to stop it.
The chances of very harmful JavaScript being out there is slim, but possible. JavaScript has also allowed so much useful interactivity on the web that it would be annoying to live without.

My outsourced life
Hilarious. Read full. I wanted to give excerpts…but there are so many hilarious moments that it is best while reading.

Blogging Predicted by 19th Century Russian Prince
“Houses are connected by means of magnetic telegraphs that allow people who live far from each other to communicate,” Odoevsky wrote.

Even more interestingly, Odoevsky suggested every household would publish a kind of daily journal or newsletter and distribute it among selected acquaintances, a habit which Russian bloggers immediately recognized as blogging.

Dark Underbelly of Technology

And you can blog because everything you say is so interesting it should be shared with everyone.
E-mail, while encouraging sloppy writing habits, certainly has the advantage of immediacy.

Technology might make it possible to work at warp speed, yes, but that doesn’t make it healthy.
Technology was supposed to free us, not enslave us.
So take a little break. Get some sunshine.

Somewhat as an extension of the above :
Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body [Also via Pradeep]
With a good night’s rest increasingly losing out to the Internet, e-mail, late-night cable and other distractions of modern life….Right away I got a hint that someone is scolding me by serving bitter truths and research.

Tricks to remembering names
Be interested

Picture it written on their forehead

Showering keyboard - step by step Worth a try!