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  3. Testing txtget

    This piece of text has been copied from “Bootstrap | Economist” using txtget, and it was done directly on the homepage, to demonstrate that txtget can recognize the source post of the copied portion even if the copy process was done on the homepage.
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  5. Testing txtget

    This piece of text has been copied from “Bootstrap | Economist” using txtget, and it was done directly on the homepage, to demonstrate that txtget can recognize the source post of the copied portion even if the copy process was done on the homepage.

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  7. "The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive. We never grew, always stayed tiny, and it served us very well over the years, allowing us to pick and choose projects, and keeping our financial independence from our clients.”
    - Stefan Sagmeister"
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  9. "The more liberty you give, the more love you give, the more you allow things in yourself and in your surroundings to take place, the more order you will have."
    —Alan Watts
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  11. "t’s good to be young and full of dreams. Dreams of one day doing something “insanely great”. Dreams of love, beauty, achievement and contribution. But understand they have a life of their own, and they’re not very good at following instructions. Love them, revere them, nurture them, respect them, but don’t ever become a slave to them. Otherwise you’ll kill them off prematurely, before they get the chance to come true."
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  13. Where the hell is matt? dancing around the globe 2008

    Few things inspire me as this video does…

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  15. Be good and good things will happen to you

    If you’re benevolent, people will rally around you: investors, customers, other companies, and potential employees. In the long term the most important may be the potential employees. I think everyone knows now that good hacker are much better than mediocre ones. If you can attract the best hackers to work for you, as Google has, you have a big advantage. And the very best hackers tend to be idealistic. They’re not desperate for a job. They can work wherever they want. So most want to work on things that will make the world better.

    Quoted from Paul Graham’s Essay “Be Good“  

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  17. Be good to boost your morale for hard times

    Morale is tremendously important to a startup—so important that morale alone is almost enough to determine success. Startups are often described as emotional roller-coasters. One minute you’re going to take over the world, and the next you’re doomed. The problem with feeling you’re doomed is not just that it makes you unhappy, but that it makes you stop working. So the downhills of the roller-coaster are more of a self fulfilling prophecy than the uphills. If feeling you’re going to succeed makes you work harder, that probably improves your chances of succeeding, but if feeling you’re going to fail makes you stop working, that practically guarantees you’ll fail.

    Here’s where benevolence comes in. If you feel you’re really helping people, you’ll keep working even when it seems like your startup is doomed. Most of us have some amount of natural benevolence. The mere fact that someone needs you makes you want to help them. So if you start the kind of startup where users come back each day, you’ve basically built yourself a giant tamagotchi. You’ve made something you need to take care of.

     Quoted from Paul Graham’s Essay “Be Good“ 

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  19. Dunbar's Number

    Dunbar’s number is the supposed cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable social relationships. 

    This limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size, and that this in turn limits group size … On the periphery, the number 150

    This number was then compared with observable group sizes for humans. 

    Surveys of village and tribe sizes also appeared to approximate this predicted value, including 150 as the estimated size of a neolithic farming village; 150 as the splitting point of Hutterite settlements; 200 as the upper bound on the number of academics in a discipline’s sub-specialization; 150 as the basic unit size of professional armies in Roman antiquity and in modern times since the 16th century; and notions of appropriate company size.