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This bullshit is to be shredded; not lightly but intently and with prejudice. It should be put down for its failure as a perspective.

Then again, I think that's also because he has focused so intently on developing as one. Maybe he was merely good when he started YC but by now he's a master.

We're always staring so intently at the next 12 months, but if you move your gaze upwards just a few fractions of an inch you can see that none of this stuff is going to matter. Labels are a bad investment.

Try focusing intently on your work rather than focusing intently on your surroundings.

It turns out, if you're intently focused on your own mission, if things start coming together for you, people will go out of their way to make things happen for you.

Nobody it seems ever picked up on that and were focussed intently on spending all of their energy not leaving Facebook for some reason. The hate-on for Google+ was above tepid.

I recommend looking a little more intently at the /results/ side of the equation, and a little less on the /effort/ side of the equation.

I like the hypothesis the article presents: focusing on working intently hard, followed by relaxation and you will perform better. It's something I would want to beleive.

Really weird effect: having stared at the screen intently for several minutes playing this game, then flipping to another tag, my vision seems to be 'zoomed out' ...

Granted they are early adopter type folk but they have taken to tablets extremely intently. They use them for gaming, and browsing, and other miscellaneous activities.

I studied this stuff intently" is a simple appeal to authority and does not make an argument credible. In this case, it does not tell anyone why central banking is the best idea since sanitation which is a very strong claim that needs some better support.

As for their new product, which predictably focuses more intently on the live engagement aspect, I am unconvinced. Turntable Live provides a subset of the functionality that Twitch.

Corollarily, if you haven't studied something intently it is actually quite probable that you don't understand it.

When he spoke, everyone listened intently. This influenced the whole meeting - people never spoke over each other, everyone paid full attention and a huge amount of information and discussion was covered effectively in a very short space of time.

"In the community-college world, McGee’s achievement is a shockingly rare feat, and the program that so intently encouraged him to accomplish it is a striking anomaly." This article isn't my experience, but I come out of the tribal community college system.

I am more or less a foodie, and yet am watching Soylent intently for exactly the opposite reason: I could conceivably only eat when I'm able to have an excellent meal. Maybe that means setting aside time to cook an exquisite dinner a few times a month, and only going out to eat when I want to try a new restaurant or to socialize.

I've tried many of the tricks that people suggest, but the simple fact is, a significant part of my personality would rather mindlessly browse the internet instead of focusing intently for a long enough period of time to do something productive. > This leads me to believe that the ideas we have reflect the kind of world we live in.

> but the simple fact is, a significant part of my personality would rather mindlessly browse the internet instead of focusing intently for a long enough period of time to do something productive. Perhaps OT, but I've come to the conclusion that this is a modern form of gluttony: We are feeding ourselves far beyond the point of nourishment.

\n""" It is accessible to those who are intently curious about theoretical aspects of software development, especially abstraction, and who can take exercises which require mathematical reasoning. A "mild curiosity" in my experience with others will not suffice.

We don't put everyone who knows any amount of math in the same bucket, we don't even put people who know vector calculus and differential equations in the same bucket, we appreciate that there are many grdations of skill and differences between people who know a thing to some level of competence and people who use that knowledge intently in their occupation. The same is true with programming.

With that said, because lip reading requires me to intently watch people, I share your frustrations when it comes to conversations in an open office environment and in group conversations, but I found that one of the best ways to try to control that is to engage in conversation rather than be the 'fly on the wall'. I greatly rely on context when I lip read, so it's important to know what the context of the discussion is.

Evil insinuates that these people are intently malicious. The findings indicate the opposite- they are unintentionally malicious.

There are innumerable other issues I could list but what's common to all of them, in my view, is that they focus so intently on the end goal of elevating women's power status that they bulldoze over all other considerations indiscriminately. We need nuance in order to achieve an actual egalitarian society, which much of feminism -- especially statements like "all other organizations are men's organizations" -- beats into the ground with a thousand-pound shovel.