Good Links
Great Videos
Automatically generate papers
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen
- https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/
- http://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/
- http://www.essaygenerator.com/
Books
Business
- Payment: Stripe, Dwolla
- Charging:
- Business Models
- 5 reasons why I won't steal your idea
- Economics in One Lesson
- 10 Ways to Make Money on the Side
- Book Summary: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- 'Greates Hits' by Kalzumeus
- How great leaders inspire action (Golden Circle)
- People don't buy 'what' you do, they buy 'why' you do it.
- 12 Tips for Early Customer Development Interviews
- Uservoice: Easy customer feedback
- Why I Run a Flat Company
- How To Respond To Content Thieves With a DMCA Takedown Notice
- GitHub: Responsive HTML email template
- The Pivot
- Invest idea
- Launch: AngelList, a curated list of angel investors
- Code for America
- Tools for Entrepreneurs: Making Something People Love
- Don't waste time
- Packaging simplified
- Marketing: Submit.com
- Find freelancers: Upwork, Freelancer.com, Fiverr.com
- How to read a patent in 60 seconds
- Cut Your Meeting Time by 90%
- Funding: Gumroad
- Funding: Kickstarter
- Similar: Selfstarter, Buy me a coffee
- A handy guide to financial support for open source
- Venture: SeedRamp
- Funding: Indiegogo
- Funding: GoFundMe
- Cold calling
- Hierarchy of the Successfully Self-Employed
- Remote Work
- Why I don't sign non-competes
Copywriting
- +10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work
- How to Write a Killer “How To” Article That Gets Attention
- Good email copy
Employee
- +How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen
- Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued
- Why Humility is Essential for Every New Hire
- 11 Simple Concepts to Become a Better Leader
- How to hire a Product Manager
- How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
- The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field
- From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy
- Don’t add your 2 cents
- An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options
- LAWS OF TECH: COMMODITIZE YOUR COMPLEMENT
Idea
- What Are The 20 Most Expensive Keyword Categories In Google AdWords?
- Quirky: Idea creation
- What are some $10B+ markets ripe for disruption?
- How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend (Examples: AppSumo, Mint, Chihuahuas)
- How One Website Exploited Amazon S3 to Outrank Everyone on Google
- Do things that don't scale
- Teespring
Legal
- Mobile Privacy Policy
- Trademark basics
- Email Privacy and CAN SPAM Laws to Be Aware Of
- WTFPL – Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License
- Privacy Policies
Small Business / Startup
- +That’s version ∞. First launch version 0.1
- USA Gov Small Business Resources
- USA Gov Small Business Guide
- Bootstrapping a software product
- Negotiating Your Startup Job Offer
- Email-First Startups
- Startup advice
- Startup Playbook
- Google for Startups
- Open source podcast publishing
- Audio: Getting Your First Consulting Client
- Startup Graveyard
- Curated directory of tools to build your startup
- Start LLC via Stripe Atlas
- Indie Tech Stacks
Car
Deals
Education
Efficiency
Engineering
Entertainment
- 58 Facts That Will Blow Your Mind In Only One Sentence
- Difference Between Computer Science and Engineering
Games
- Z-Type: Typing Game
- GeoGuessr: Explore the world
- League of Legends:
XKCD
Ted Talks
- The puzzle of motivation
- The real reason for brains
- Gaming can make a better world
- How brain science will change computing
- Toy tiles that talk to each other
- The thrilling potential of SixthSense techonology
- The surprising science of happiness
- Being brilliant every single day (Path 2)
- Think stupid
Other
- Ultimate insult creator
- Video: Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)
- Video: Bible in a Minute
- Video: Pachelbel Rant
- Video: Live action short film Portal: No Escape
Dance
Fitness
Health
Language
- Esperanto
- Learn Korean in 15 minutes
- How to use a semicolon
- 25 Common Phrases That You’re Saying Wrong
Math
- Heart equation
- The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence: To find the energy at a particular frequency, spin your signal around a circle at that frequency, and average a bunch of points along that path.
- Linear algebra tutorial in four pages
- Weierstrass functions
- An Interactive Guide To The Fourier Transform
- Video series: Essence of linear algebra by 3Blue1Brown
- Theorem of the Day
- What do numbers look like?
Media
- Free photos
- GitHub: SuperTinyIcons (SVG)
- Font psychology
- A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space
Money
Motivation
Sivers
- Eliminating the time between thinking something and doing it
- Idea Multiplier
- Video: Start Now. No funding needed
- +Video: Hell Yeah or No
- Procrastination hack: change “and” to “or”
- Some people like to pay. Let them
- That’s version ∞. First launch version 0.1
- There’s no speed limit
- The strength of many little customers
- Never have a limit on your income
- Fixed mindset vs Growth mindset
Music
Guitar
- +Acoustimetallus Plectrus - Ewan Dobson
- Learn: Blackbird - The Beatles
- 20 guitar classics
- Easy songs that sound hard
- Video: Strum patterns
- Video: 100 Riffs
- Video: Still Awake - Tobias Rauscher
- Music theory for musicians and normal people
Piano
- +Learn: River Flows In You - Yiruma (Tutorial)
- +Learn: Kiss The Rain - Yiruma
- Learn: Carol of the Bells
- Learn: Jazz
- Learn: Rock Ballad
- Learn: Keyboard riffs for amateurs (Part 2)
- Learn: He's a Pirate
- TODO: "saloon piano sheet music" and "piano music boogie woogie"
Public Data
- The World Bank
- Google Public Data search
- US Gov open data
- Academic Torrents
- Open Food Facts
- US Census Bureau
- USA Facts
- NFL players: height & weight over time
Random Skill
- 7 Basic Knots
- How to make small talk
- The Art of Conversation: 5 Dos and Don’ts
- The Art of Conversation: How to Avoid Conversational Narcissism
Self-printing
Technology
- Failing hard drive sounds
- Recover sound from video
- Video: Stephen Wolfram on Computing a theory of everything
- Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
- +Nelson rules: Determine if values are out of control
Software
Travel
Japan
Workspace
Miscellaneous
- +Your Social Media Fingerprint: Find what websites you logged in to
- Graph paper
- 7 Things to Say (and Not Say) to a Grieving Person
- 8 Reasons Why You Should Pee in Your Garden
- Book: Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
- Baby Sign Language
- Google - My Activity
- Picture: Is truncating the Y-axis misleading?
- NY Times: Paper Boys - Inside the dark, labryinthine, and extremely lucrative world of consumer debt collection
- Mapping Emotions On The Body: Love Makes Us Warm All Over
- Qwertycards - for easy to remember strong passwords
- Video: Voting paradoxes
- Why Babies Love (And Learn From) Magic Tricks
- US Army Survival Manual
- The history of philosophy
- Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You
- The Fireplace Delusion
- The average women faces in 40 different countries
- Flow Chart: Should I Quit My Job?
Living
- Is It Better to Rent or Buy?
- Cost of Living comparison
- Reduce Your Rent with This Simple Letter
- The True Cost of Commuting
- The Vanual
