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- Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.
Here is the full text of Adrian Tan’s 2008 Graduation Speech @ NTU Wee Kim Wee Communications. Video Link: Full Text: Life and How to …
- Jeff Bezos: "We are What We Choose"
[Remarks by Jeff Bezos, as delivered to the Class of 2010 at Princeton]As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in …
- Jeff Bezos Model: Regret Minimization Framework
[via HackerNews and this interview] I went to my boss and said to him, “You know, I’m going to go do this crazy thing and I’m going to start …
- Communicating
We assume the first rule of communication is, “Communicate so that you are understood.” It’s not. The first rule is, …
- Goal of An Essay
“I think the goal of an essay should be to discover surprising things. That’s my goal, at least. And most surprising means most …
- Six Rules of Writing
George Orwell’s six elementary rules (“Politics and the English Language”, 1946): Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech …
- On Writing
I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of …
- Ignore Everybody
From Hugh MacLeod’s “Ignore Everybody” book (as listed in his blog post): 1. Ignore everybody. The idea doesn’t have …
- (Draft)Technology and Courage
[ Draft in progress: Revisit once again to see new updates to this blog post] Dr.Ivan E.Sutherland is a pioneer in computer graphics, ACM …