Pat shares his journey from graduating in economics to moving to accounting and then transitioning to tech.
Help is an inside job. If it's someone else’s problem, you probably don’t have the answer anyway. Our help is usually not helpful, but toxic. Help is a sunny side of control and we should stop helping so much.
Use community groups. For example, if you are promoting a physical product made locally, use a local community group that already has thousands of members willing to support a local businesses.
Three key things: accept misalignment between expectations and reality, change expectations, and change reality.
It starts very small with things that a student is interested in (art, sports, hiking, etc.). Make sure that the student has time to pursue their interests and then build with incremental steps on their passions.
The expectations and pressures change when you go from being a founder to being an employee. As a founder, you are constantly thinking about the next stage or which direction to go to. All the pressure is on you. As an employee, you don't have any of that weight, but you also don't get to make the decision or set high-level goals. Instead, you have to consider other people's goals and the direction set by the CEO.
Based off of expert opinions of association, most say that consuming more than 200 milligrams or less of caffeine per day is safe. That’s about 1 cup of coffee, depending on size. It would be difficult to conduct a study on pregnant women.
One theory is that dreaming is just a byproduct of REM sleep, in the same way as heat is a byproduct of light, produced by a lightbulb.
No. According to Selden, there was a disease that wiped out all the bananas in the world in the 50s. So, the bananas that we eat now are actually from a different plant that we refer to as the banana. If you eat a banana flavored candy, you are not truly tasting the banana that we eat today.
It is a developmental psychology concept that rewards one for making predictions that do not fit with what one already knows.
Buster shares his funny story on how he learned Perl in a weekend and how he was able to get the job.
Many argue that it can help people get off cigarettes, which are much more harmful. It may be more beneficial than nicotine gum or patches because the behavior mimics smoking.
Although Apple has been a dominant player in the podcasting space, the RSS feed of a podcast is by default an open standard allowing anyone to participate. A listener could, for example, choose any available player app to consume a podcast. That, however, has been changing too, especially with Spotify and other starting to release locked feeds, only available for consumption to listeners of their platforms.
Most people try to smell their own breath, which has been proven to be inefficient. What you really want to do is lick the palm of your hand and wait about 20 seconds, then smell.
If you have a problem with authority or like doing a variety of things with your time.
Understand your fears, talk through them. It will help you understand what is causing your feelings.
When things are bad, and you are only consuming bad information, the rest of the world starts to look bad.
Turn off your computer, go look at the sun, relax.
Bernard shares about the beginnings of Food By People, a marketplace for home-baked goods that leveraged the Cottage Food laws passed by the US government.
Wisdom is understanding long term consequences of your actions.
Whether that's in sports or medicine or life or love or investing or technology or business, if you understand the long term consequence of your actions and you behave for a good long term outcome, then you will naturally appear wise because you would be forward-looking.
Reviews are often completely falsified. If you dig deep and compare, you realize that maybe 90% of the reviews are bogus, even if they are "verified purchases." Seems that buying a product and then leaving a positive review is totally worth it because Amazon weights those heavier than unverified reviews. Great way to boost your product's visibility. Amazon is not particularly interested in hearing customer concerns with reviews though.
When Mailbox, previously sold to Dropbox, was getting shut down, Rahul wrote a lengthy blog post entitled "How to survive an acquisition."
Being at the right place, at the right time, gave this blog post outsized visibility, and generate new users for Superhuman, basically for free.
The advancements in artificial intelligence, combined with improvements across all internet technologies over the last two decade, has create a perfect timing for a wikipedia-style resource that can index an order of magnitude more knowledge, while removing human-centric biases currently present on Wikipedia.
You have to be hiccuping for over 48 hours. Anything less would be known as a hiccup bout.
It’s important to work to make more money when you and your family need it. Kids are some of the best motivators to make more money.
On an individual level, mediation can provide opportunity for one's consciousness to evolve.
Epipen, otherwise known as Epinephrine auto injector, is a medical device that auto inject medicine into your body, typically the thigh. To use the epipen: stab it to the thigh and keep for ten seconds.
So far, Martin has done four cycles of epithalon by taking a 100 milligram vial of it that’s been freeze dried. You combine it in water and inject one millimeter of it into your stomach every day for ten days. Each cycle gives you four or five years of telomere growth.