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    Have Smartphones Destroyed Humanity?

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    I pretty much live in a pile of books, so my preschool-age little girls see that Daddy likes to read. I also do a lot of reading on a tablet and an e-reader (I really like to read), so I've worried about that too. I just let them know that I'm reading and not mindlessly grazing on dopamine chow...
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    Philosophy guy new to the forum

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    Thanks for the reference on Tvede, I'll give him a look. The Dreyfus stuff I'm thinking of was from the 90s. It doesn't look like he did much with it, but here's the paper, and there are some replies in the same issue: Spinosa, Charles, Fernando Flores, and Hubert Dreyfus. “Disclosing New...
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    Plant-Based Opportunities / Vegan Business Opportunities

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    Funny timing on this thread bump. The wife and I were out having some drinks the other day and she pretty casually drops an idea on me that combines the vegan market with another evergreen vertical. Each thing by itself is fairly popular but nobody's really working on the intersection of the two...
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    Atomic Habits, by James Clear (Review & Discussion)

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    This is exactly what I meant when I said that I had some reservations about the underlying psychology in this book. To be blunt about it, pop psychology is a mess...because psychology itself is a mess. I don't even mean the empirical sciences, I mean the words and the concepts we use for...
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    Philosophy guy new to the forum

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    I see that I liked this post but didn't actually respond to you, which is weird (but the date was a very busy time for me, so that's probably why). Anyway, obvious joke to get out of the way: I guess your thesis was on Kierkegaard? Who are you looking at for your work on innovation? Dreyfus...
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    35 y.o. fantasy/sci-fi enthusiast & gov. worker in Norway

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    What's stopping you from doing this now? (I'm asking out of curiosity, not to scold.) Welcome! About having a platform: Here is an interesting telling of how E. L. James built Fifty Shades of Gray into a billion-dollar franchise: Fifty Shades of Grey, the viral myth, and the truth about how...
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    Ahhh Feels Great To Report a Business For Discrimination (another reason to go Fastlane)

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    @NewManRising , try this exercise. Head over to Upwork, or Freelancer dot com, or one of those outsourcing sites. Post a job notification. Something that will pay decent to good. Check back in 24 hours and look at the replies. If you want to change your point of view, consider that the...
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    Moved From WP To Hardcore Coding

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    @Amro I don't know anything about your hosting or your plugin situation but I can tell you from experience that WP will go as fast as anything if you treat it right. What usually happens: grab some cheap shared hosting, add plugins until the dashboard won't load, maybe grab a bloated...
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    Moved From WP To Hardcore Coding

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    Seconding this. I'm as decent with code as any weekend warrior coder. There is absolutely a trade-off in time and focus between coding tasks and every other business task. I don't even think that marketing-focused folks should be dealing with customer service and other basic admin tasks if they...
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    How many Business Failures did you have before success?

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    I've had at least 2-3 failures that I can remember, where either the business wasn't profitable or I folded up something that might have been profitable with more patience. I'm voting for the last option in the poll though, because despite some short-term profitability I haven't actually created...
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    Why Facebook is a Joke (And various social media/smartphone insanity)

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    I solved this problem a few years back by creating a new account with no friends and no group memberships, and granting it access to my ads account and my pages.
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    Quit now, get a job, and why bother. Everything is luck.

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    You're headed in the right direction, but the actual argument is a bit more sophisticated than this. Taleb's books are more about the limitations inherent in the concept of probability and (especially) the way it is applied in common forms of forecasting. Humans intuitively expect certain...
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    The 80/20 Principle Library

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    Chris Anderson's The Long Tail deserves a mention. For those that don't mind some heavier thinking and eccentric Lebanese egotism, at least one of Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, or Antifragile are worldview-flippers.
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    Atomic Habits, by James Clear (Review & Discussion)

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    My Rating: 2.5 or 3 stars out of 5 stars :star::star::star::xx::xx: Format: EPUB My thoughts/review: I'm torn over this one. There was a lot good here, but something fell flat for me. In the plus column, I like and agree with much of the message and the tactics. The book was structured...
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    Lawsuit Multimillionaire

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    That's one of the more interesting stories we've had around here lately. Welcome!
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    Not Fulfilled? Depressed? Maybe You Need An Alignment

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    Maybe it could help to distinguish trust, as what you feel or experience, from trustworthiness, which is earning or meriting trust from others. Being trustworthy is (or at least could be) valuable without being an emotion or feeling.
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    Can I criticize (or hate) a book I haven't read entirely?

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    Principles was a power-skim book for me also. I picked it up from the shelf at the library on a whim, figuring I'd get see what all the fuss was about. I guess there's good stuff in it, but all I saw was a bloated treatise. If I want to read bloated treatises, I'll read a German philosopher. (I...
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    Can I criticize (or hate) a book I haven't read entirely?

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    My rules of thumb: If I'm reading to learn something, I want it to teach me as efficiently as possible, without lying to me or misleading me. If I'm reading for enjoyment, it better entertain me. With most popular nonfiction, I'm after a little of both. On the education side, most books these...
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    The reason I don't like Think and Grow Rich...

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    It was a half tongue-in-cheek link, but given your leanings I think you'll enjoy it. The media made him out like a raving nutcase (of course), but the writings are surprisingly lucid. He's painting a picture of some ugly truths about technological civilization. Too painful to ignore, because...
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    How to legally pay no taxes... possible?

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    Imagine if all the people who agree with this bill but believe it is impossible suddenly said, "you know what, I'm going to call my Congressman about this!" Would the scripted Eeyore line "this could never happen" still be impossible?

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