mikemajzoub

Due to the efficiency that close-mindedness offers, it's in our nature to gravitate towards it. However, business, cultural, and societal opportunities are realized by those who don't take the easy path of always going along with the herd's current assumptions about the world.

Peter Thiel's now-famous interview question of "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" seeks, at least in part, to tease out whether the interviewee possesses an open-mindedness allowing her to see things differently from the herd.

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To offer this question more focus, let's define being "open minded" to manifest itself in the following ways:

- regularly doubting one's understanding of the world while simultaneously taking positions and acting based off of that current, imperfect understanding. - grateful when new knowledge or understanding leads to changing one's worldview to be more accurate.

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Thanks for any strategies or thoughts you can give here, HN. I mull over this one often :)

See title :)

See title :)

When studying I run into the issue of getting to the point where my brain is exhausted and I need to take a break.

Have you run into this issue? What are the most effective ways you've found to reset your brain so it feels as fresh as it does when you wake up?

Hi HN -

A new developer can pick up any decent programming book or take any decent online course and reasonably expect to be introduced to many new concepts to chew through.

However, as time goes by and the new developer masters the common introductory concepts, such endeavors become less efficient.

What strategies do you leverage to overcome this challenge? Additionally, as a veteran developer, how do you use your self-study minutes most efficiently?

Thanks!

In peace, Mike

Hi HN -

What are your favorite, free APIs? They can be your favorite for many reasons: making you more efficient, stimulating intellectual curiosity, or simply just for being beautifully designed.

I think it'd be cool to get a list here so that we all can explore the gems our peers have found in their travels around the internet :)

Thanks, Mike

On your team, how do you all decide which features will go into the next version of your app?

Note the possible answers listed below are not mutually exclusive, nor are they exhaustive. I'm just trying to helpfully give you a prompt :)

Analytics? Intuition? Qualitative User Feedback? Highest Paid Person's Opinion? Majority Rules? Waterfall Roadmap? Whomever on your team argues the most effectively decides?

What impact are you having on the world? How are you making it a better place? How are you making it a worse place?

When someone is wearing AirPods, does it change how you interact with him or her?

If you're having a conversation with him or her? If you're on the elevator or just passing him or her? If you're waiting to cross the street together? If he or she is driving? Etc.

What I'm finding interesting about observing wearable tech entering our society is not only the classical Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) considerations, but also the Human-to-AugmentedHuman Interaction. Have you been noticing and thinking about this, too? I'd appreciate your thoughts!

Also, if you're a regular AirPod user, have you noticed changes in how you interact with others or how they interact with you when you have the AirPods in?

Thanks! Mike