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There are amazing posts but this one has a lot of confirmation bias: https://future.a16z.com/cohort-based-courses/

The article is promoting the idea of cohort-based courses written by Wes Kao (who is the co-founder of Maven, the first platform for cohort-based courses. She is also co-founder of the altMBA. )


"The Buddhists think you don’t quit addictions, you become a new person who isn’t an addict." This is such an amazing quote


I don‘t think it correctly reflects Buddhist teaching, though.

You become a new person moment to moment and even „you“ is not putting it correctly and everything is tied together by cause and effect regardless.

Perhaps a better way to look at it is that the Buddha is only teaching by skillful means. So that quote may be the right thing for a particular addict at a time. In that sense it is true, but not as an absolute truth for everyone always.


Makes me think they have not met a single addict ever. This quote makes absolutely zero sense. Most addicts stay addicts for the rest of their lives. They fight their addiction most days if not every day.


Thanks for posting this, phenomenal film and amazing documentary. RIP Syd Mead


Separate venture (I'm not affiliated, just really like it)


Cool good to know and thanks for the clarification!


The documentary is well worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmN91K4R0_U


The link tells me: "This video is not available".



It seems you have to subscribe to access Hulu.


Congrats on the launch! Why did you decide to start with Segment? Do you plan to add other services in the future? (GA, Firebase etc.)


We started from Segment because it makes it extremely easy for us to onboard companies and it allowed us to focus on building the core of our product, our templates!

It also makes it easy for non technical folks to get started if Segment is already in place


Ibis Project is also similar: https://ibis-project.org/


I would highly recommend that you check out "The Cornell Note Taking System":

http://lsc.cornell.edu/study-skills/cornell-note-taking-syst...


I would recommend Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger and these following two books:

The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You by Scott Page

https://www.amazon.com/Model-Thinker-What-Need-Know/dp/04650... and

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Mental-Models-Thinking-Concepts...



That's a pretty bad answer considering metamask instability. Having done a simple project on ethereum, metamask was major pain, and I would like to skip it next time.


Can you tell us more about the trouble you ran into with Metamask?


One of our use cases used factory pattern when creating contract instances. You'd get contract address by subscribing to event from the blockchain. Issue I ran into was that metamask would not get events from the blockchain even though it should. There we're a lot of issues with the feature, some resolved, some still not. Basically this issue: https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/2393


Haha... Just an example: actually last release of Web3 (1.0.x) is not supported by metamask.


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