How a $10k poker win changed how I thinkWhen amateur player Alex O'Brien unexpectedly won an online poker tournament, little did she know that she'd be pitted against one of the game's most controversial players. A stellar team of poker pros offered to train her, and she discovered how poker can transform how you see the world.
Read MoreGetting unstuck. You're stuck. But what exactly is this thing we call being stuck? It's when your mental model of a program does not match the actual program. You expect it to work in a certain way but it does not. As a developer this happens daily. Thankfully some hiccups are resolved easily and you move on. But some are not. Being stuck is dangerous as you can easily go off on wrong tangents and down rabbit-holes.
Read morePayPal MafiaI legitimately though this was joke, but it's a very real thing. The "PayPal Mafia" is a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and developed additional technology companies that are kinda a big deal in todays day and age and I thought this was just really cool.
Read moreLife advice.A funny lie of adulthood is pretending we’ll act on the life advice we save. We don't revisit bookmarks. We don’t re-read Kindle highlights. We rarely re-open Google docs.
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