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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
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I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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Funny. I went there and found this: "Sounds very handy - Lifehacker.com
This is much quicker and cleaner - Hawk Wings
I came across toread.cc and I immediately fell in love with it - Winston's Attic" …
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Very true about Gladwell. But I've picked up the original research too by Wolf and his book. It was Wolf's observation about what made Roseto like it is. Gladwell just restated it. http://www.amazon.…
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I have a book called The Best 1001 Short, Easy Recipes. I brought this with me when we started Y Combinator. Each recipe has at most usually 4-5 ingredients that are often very easy and cheap to get. …
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:( I don't think it can work for me tonight. I'll see how it goes. But I've had dinner slow cooking since 10 am for Lynette and I :) And she might be getting home kinda late. I'll try and get us to th…
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The Tao of Pooh, a book I read 10 years ago and just recently picked up again. Fantastic read. http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Pooh-Benjamin-Hoff/dp/0140067477 Taoism in general is something I'm going to …
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This brings up an interesting point though from another book I read "Sway" from Ori Brafman. There's a chapter called Compensation and Cocaine, and they talk about some research done on the brain when…
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Yep, that's a great question I kind of wanted to bring up in the post as well, but it was getting long. Because it calls into question things about how much money Tim makes, which is sort of none of m…
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Done :) It's a little tricky to find. Went here http://yhst-88098672283531.stores.yahoo.net/500bepl.html Remember to choose "in store pickup" for a shipping method. Yeah, I'm going to spend this o…
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Yeah, the produce thing is a problem. 7-11 by me has been carrying things though like fruit, so more recipes I'm making explore stuff with apples and oranges. I've also been exploring what I can do wi…
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Good question :) Well that is one of those things that we just stock up on at the grocery store: chicken breasts. I was originally going to see if I could ONLY cook with stuff from 7-11 but that pro…