Tag: lists
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17 Startup Mistakes
John Osher is the epitome of the “serial entrepreneur”. After selling his toy company – CAP Toys – to Hasbro in 1997 for more than $120 million this is what he did: “I decided I’d make a list of everything I’d done wrong and [had] seen other entrepreneurs do wrong, I wanted to make a…
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List of Logical Fallacies
First cognitive science, now logic: a list of logical fallacies. A fallacy is a component of an argument which, being demonstrably flawed in its logic or form, renders the argument invalid in whole. I prefer the many informal fallacies: an important one of which is that correlation does not imply causation (cum hoc ergo propter…
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List of Cognitive Biases
I love lists, and so every day this week I’ll give you one to chew on. To start us off is this wonderful list of cognitive biases. To try and become a better thinker I’m studying cognitive biases in order to (attempt to) overcome them. This in itself is attempting to overcome the bias blind…
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6 False Beliefs About the Brain
ScienceBlogs’ Neurophilosophy details 6 iconoclastic discoveries about the brain and gives a brief description of the research showing the truth behind these false dogmas: The adult human brain is not plastic The adult human brain cannot regenerate Neurons are the functional elements of the nervous system Neurotransmitters are released from the nerve terminal Neurons are…
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Book Lists
I’ve been updating my reading list lately and my Amazon wish lists are growing exponentially (even with significant culling). These book lists are great: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, AI researcher (writer of The FAQ on the Meaning of Life) Ryan Holiday, writer Kevin Kelly, Wired’s Editor at Large and board member of The Long Now Foundation…
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10 Essential (Software) Development Practices
Ten Essential Development Practices is an article from Perl.com (O’Reilly) based on Perl Best Practices, a book on Perl coding and development guidelines. Given how obvious the items on this list are, it’s surprising how this isn’t followed. Design the Module’s Interface First Write the Test Cases Before the Code Create Standard POD Templates for…
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Six Habits of Highly Effective Mentees (and My Start-Up Life Excerpts)
Personally and professionally I always thrive to learn. Nine months ago I moved from programming into systems/business analysis: I knew what the job entailed and knew I could do it well. I still asked for a mentor. Specifically, I asked that my mentor be the person in our organisation who is always lauded as being…
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10 Ways We Get Things Wrong
Psychology Today has an interesting article on fear, probability, and how we get things wrong. It’s not a very scannable article, so here’s an executive summary: We Fear Snakes, Not Cars – Risk and emotion are inseparable We Fear Spectacular, Unlikely Events – Fear skews risk analysis in predictable ways We Fear Cancer But Not…
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100 Best Fiction and Non-Fiction of the 20th Century – The Modern Library
In 1998 The Modern Library (of Random House) started a poll to find the best 100 fiction and non-fiction books of the 20th century (do you think they realised that there were still two years of the century left?). There are five lists: 100 Best Novels The Reader’s List (Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand) The…
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Books That Will Induce a Mindf**k
Trying to keep this site family-friendly (bring the kids… I’ll play with them) I thought a couple of asterisks would come in handy for my most recent find: The den of iniquity that is Everything2 (I waste spend way too much time there) has a pearl of wisdom in Pseudomancer’s Books That Will Induce a…