There is a lot of talk going around these days related to fearing AI’s, many of these discussions in the mainstream were spurred by comments Elon Musk made relating...
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This is a quote from an extremely rare book on nootropics by the father of the nootropic concept, Corneliu Giurgea and is one of the places where the otherwise...
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How often do we miss what is right in front of us? As entrepreneurs, it is important to realize that this happens more often than we know. The more focused we are on...
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FeatureThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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I get asked all the time about what I take for mitochondria. While I don’t have the time right now to write out what each does and how it works, I will give you the...
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“DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS” – an anti-troll manifesto by Eric Matzner
Read nowThis is a talk I gave in August 2014 at PyGotham, titled “How I Taught My 10-Year-Old Brother to Love Programming (and Python).”
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Cognitive decline strikes in many different ways, including pathologies such as Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but in the end many ways of describing how the brain has...
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How we think, believe, and decide.
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This article published last week, claims to be the first to use r/nootropics as a data source and is focused on the “not-so-productive, not-so-effective encounters...
I get asked all the time about what I take for mitochondria. While I don’t have the time right now to write out what each does and how it works, I will give you the...
When I was shopping for a deadstock, surplus Russian gas mask to go with my Halloween costume, I didn’t think it would matter if it was functional or not. How wrong...
Speed reading plugins and apps seem to come and go as fast as the words do at you in RSVP reading. I am currently using a combination of two extensions to enable my...
“DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS” – an anti-troll manifesto by Eric Matzner
This is a quote from an extremely rare book on nootropics by the father of the nootropic concept, Corneliu Giurgea and is one of the places where the otherwise...
I love this quote from a recent Elon Musk email to his employees. In referring to how precise the design tolerances of the Model 3 should be, Elon says that it...
Cognitive decline strikes in many different ways, including pathologies such as Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but in the end many ways of describing how the brain has...
I am in the middle of doing research on peptides used for healing a physical injury and the best solution is usually found within a community dedicated to that topic...
Plants make chemicals called flavonoids and polyphenols to play roles within themselves including protection from stressors and predators. They are found naturally...
When ABC News reached out to me, I was concerned they were going to do a hit piece on nootropics, but they did a very well thought out and researched piece that...
This interview is what I consider to be my best podcast appearance to date, a conversation at the UploadVR’s VIP GDC mixer with , led to me rehashing the information...
Last month I was featured in a story for NPR’s KQED San Francisco affiliate in part of a series on biohacking, they wanted to see what a typical day or morning for...
Many times after exercising I want protein, but to not want to mix it with a drink with fat or sugar. In this case water would be the logical choice to use, but most...
I am writing this as a quick article that I hope at some point to come back and fix up, but the bottom line is this: Vitamin B-12 is essential for the functioning of...
So I was never really afraid of flying, related to crashing or anything like that, but I was listening to a podcast Dr. Jack Kruse being interviewed on electric...
There is a lot of talk going around these days related to fearing AI’s, many of these discussions in the mainstream were spurred by comments Elon Musk made relating...
This is a talk I gave in August 2014 at PyGotham, titled “How I Taught My 10-Year-Old Brother to Love Programming (and Python).”
This week Google is out with the announcement that Google X is working on a system of nanoparticles that can be an early detector of diseases. Many times the...
Ben Howard – Hideaway (Kiesza Cover) Vijay & Sofia Zlatko Remix
While robots that are easier to program and integrate along side humans are spreading rapidly, they are still missing some sensors that can allow for the randomness...
Recently, two discoveries have been announced that lend a lot of credence to theories about life existing outside of our solar system and the abundance of the...
I often get asked how I make my beard lines so tight and consistent… So today I reveal the not so secret secrets that I arrived at through hard-fought research…
How often do we miss what is right in front of us? As entrepreneurs, it is important to realize that this happens more often than we know. The more focused we are on...
There are over 7000 diseases that effect the human family, yet only about 500 diseases have a medicine available to treat it. This robotic system allows scientists...
Practice makes perfect is a phrase you hear all the time, but no one is perfect. The fact is though, if you practice, you will become better at whatever you do. I...
I am learning python and the moment, and working on an app the uses the Twilio SMS api and TwiML. I spent way too long today trying to figure out how to forward...
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
As we are heading into the flu season, people always ask me how I stop myself from getting sick. The main substance I can attribute to my avoidance of the flu virus...
One thing to think about when going to Burning Man is that you are going to be almost always walking, climbing, dancing or biking. This means it is going to put a...
Please note that I am not promoting MDMA use, but I know that people I know are using this drug at concerts and other events on a fairly regular basis and I want to...
3D Printing has the potential to change our physical world more than almost any other technology we’ve ever invented. There is already massive growth in this area,...
I recently read Brad Feld’s post, A Problem With Gmail When The Machines Take Over, and while the article is about the problems he faced with his email being...
Now that I have a 128 gb phone, I was having my laptop’s drive fill up with backups. Apple doesn’t offer a way for you to chose the location of where your backups...
The title of this article, Dopamine is not about pleasure anymore, means that dopamine’s effect on the brain is not about pleasure, but about motivation and focus....
When working out and trying to gain muscle, everyone always seems to talk about protein. This also underlies a lot of the eating habits of people, such as if they...
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I just read Dan Shipper’s article comparing advertising on Twitter to selling umbrella’s in a synagogue. In the post, Dan makes an analogy comparing advertising, to...
Many people have asked me for some tips on outsourcing, especially more serious things than birthdays and flirting. These days it can be nearly impossible for a...
With Facebook set to IPO on May 18th and expected to raise over 10 Billion in case, somewhere around 1000 Millionares will be created out of Facebook employees....
I purchased the above video from a guy in England that I have never met. I found him on a website that is a favorite of mine, Fiverr. Fiverr is a marketplace where...
I have thousands of songs in my iTunes and across various cloud music services, but the last week I have been jamming to a small set of songs on repeat. The first...
I found this list on Meta Filter and have co-opted it and plan to update and edit it as I go…Have any additions or subtractions? Let me know in the comments.
These were apparently posted on the wall in the hotel of Allen Ginsberg a year before the poem “Howl” was written.
This is an excerpt from one of my favorite books, and a classic on persuasion, Influence by Robert Cialdini. The idea that underlays the entire book is that humans...
So, you may not know this, but I’m not famous, like at all. No one knows who I am or cares what I do, so I post things freely and don’t really care about hiding who...
I just stumbled across this list in one of my old notebooks from circa 2005. I think many of these were SAT related or were gathered around that time. My plan was to...
dropcapT/dropcaphere is an old story of a boilermaker who was hired to fix a huge steamship boiler system that was not working well. After listening to the...
An article from Matznerd about Self Discipline Quote.
In my opinion, this quote refers to the fact that it is better to be out there, trying, failing, doing, than to go do something that takes no great risk. It is...
And you thought you had your post college year bad. These people live in buildings in Bejiing that house 40-60 people per toilet. These are the college graduates and...
dropcapW/dropcaphe attached article asks a good question about where the all of the innovation is in our country. We seem to be failing at pushing the boundaries in...
One Line Ascii Art for Twitter, IM, Text Messages, and Status Updates
I remember the first time I heard Lana Del Ray’s voice, I was surfing the web and had the HypeMachine playing in the background and her voice was so beautiful it...
These guys are pretty damn awesome and have a great sound. Two of the musicians met late night in the Lowest East Side of Manhattan for the first time and instantly...
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are the most active.” -Leonardo Da Vinci
Elements, chemicals, amino acids, and other essential body boosting supplements can be added to your life to a great enhancement. Coffee is essentially just a...
I like The Weeknd and this is my page dedicated to them:
Big Sean feat. Nicki Minaj – DANCE (A ASS)
Read below about how Sierra-Online, a videogame distributor got started. Ken realized that there were a lot of games being programmed and a lot of new software...
I guess it’s not that hard to believe, but three quarters kids aged 12-17 have cell phones. I can only imagine what it is like being a kid now, because phones were...
Fingers freezing as I try and get the lock on, as if your mind is working and you can remember the numbers. It’s 40 degrees and I’ve just biked from my developers...
What is the Limit to Human Population Growth? : The New Yorker
Looks like whether you are able to distinguish between imagination and reality is linked to a fold in the brain. Nothing concrete, but at the least interstering…
This may not seem like a huge deal, but these are the beginning punches in what is a new format of war. The US has been linked to an attack on Iran that involved a...
This is a pretty long an technical interview on the way the search algorithms at Google come about and some interesting features. If you are interested in SEO or how...
This app is pretty cool and will track when you arrive at a location and when you leave. Originally designed for contractors and freelancers as a way to guage their...
Here are some links to some really amazing examples of the power of HTML5 and CSS product websites. These are the first shots across the bow of a new breed of...
I don’t really think Facebook has much to worry about, I actually see a future where people are involved in more than even two social networks. But the idea here is...
It is important to know what really matters for your company and yourself because your values will be represented in the products you create. Here are some good...
Google and Facebook are making us seem a lot more 1-dimensional than we are. They don’t allow us to share as we really want to share in an online identity. We are...
Good article that will put some perspective on how dangerous it can be to have google controlled email accounts. If they are compromised, it can be really hard to...
The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable
Amazon Rewrites the Rules of Book Publishing – NYTimes.com
It’s definitely not how it used to be, but times have changed and probably for the better. While I am definitely one to appreciate a hot flight attendant, I think...
For our fifth D conference, both Steve and his longtime rival, the brilliant Bill Gates, surprisingly agreed to a joint appearance, their first extended onstage...
tUnE-yArDs (really annoying to spell out) is a bad ass band and while I don’t have much time to write about them right now, it is dumb to write about music anyway....
I am excited today because leaving to San Francisco for TwilioCon on Tuesday. This is my second time back to San Francisco in 3 months. Last time I went right as I...
It was a couple of years ago over winter break when my brother asked me if I wanted to be in a music video. I had nothing else planned for the day so I said why not...
Sam Friend – Part of the Show from Adam Fairholm on Vimeo.
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