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Why do you keep a personal knowledge base? What are you trying to accomplish by saving content? What insights do you want to discover? What tasks do you want to achieve?

Evernote has its Context feature which presents relevant notes to you as you're typing them. This seems like a great idea with poor implementation.

Do you use the feature? What are its downfalls? What can a competitor do to win you over by improving the feature?

A group of friends and I won a pitch contest at our university and decided we want to pursue the idea and try to start development. However, break just started and I am struggling to decide what the best way to organize the team/get started is, especially considering we are all over the US for the month.

Think Pocket, Instapaper, Evernote, Pinboard -- what is the biggest hurdle to reaching your perfect digital knowledge base?

On another note, what is the best way to make such a service more social, as to foster the diffusion and evolution of different ideas?

Impact investing still seems to be in its infancy in the US. Some areas, like Chicago, are slowly starting to see some growth in share of VC money and focus on social enterprises. In general, what does impact investing need to take off? What will make it break into the mainstream?

Hey all,

I'm an incoming college freshman planning to major in Computer Science. I've always been very interested in programming, and throughout HS I managed to teach myself some basic scripting in Python and Perl.

However, I was looking at my university's CS community, and it's really awesome -- but also VERY intimidating. A lot of the students there were doing hackathons and building small apps before they even got to college. Now they have side businesses in web design and development, and have very solid portfolios. I feel like I'm not going to be able to compete.

I want to be at that level. I have 2-3 months before classes start. I want to focus on web development (full stack, with less of a priority on design). I keep dabbling here and there but I cannot maintain focus and get past a beginner level, because I keep thinking I'm focusing on the wrong things.

What should my gameplan be this summer? Assuming I want to focus on getting involved with the startup/hackathon community with the MEAN stack, what would my self-learning "syllabus" look like? What should I expect to be able to accomplish by the end of the summer if I put 3-4 hours a day into this?

I'd appreciate any help you all can give me. Thank you!

Hi guys!

I'm a rising senior in high school trying to decide what I want to do with my life. I've been looking at these YC Research projects (universal basic income, city building, etc.) and am absolutely fascinated. I've truly never been interested in doing anything more than working on projects like those.

My question is, what is the best path to doing so? What can I do, in college and on my own, that will put me on the path to researching and implementing ideas like those? My plan is to study economics... does that give me the skills to work on problems like these? I'm particularly interested in the two research projects listed above, but I'd love to hear advice concerning how to work on any "big idea" project like that.

Thank you guys in advance.

Although I can generally remember the basic concepts of books that I've read, I have trouble retaining details.

What are your methods for retaining read information?

I want to jump into iOS and OS X development. Coming from a web development background (Python, Javascript, HTML/CSS, etc.), what would be the best way to go about learning Swift to make apps? What are the best resources (preferably free) to use?