My best links

Excellent article by Paul Graham on How to do what you love.

[the] new definition of work [is] to make some original contribution to the world, and in the process not to starve.

I think the best test is to try to do things that would make your friends say wow.

If you admire two kinds of work equally, but one is more prestigious, you should probably choose the other. Your opinions about what’s admirable are always going to be slightly influenced by prestige, so if the two seem equal to you, you probably have more genuine admiration for the less prestigious one.

The test of whether people love what they do is whether they’d do it even if they weren’t paid for it

Len goes in search of Bill Watterson, the author of Calvin and Hobbes. He visits Bill’s home town, and manages to interview Mom. Apparantly, Dad is quite like Dad, but Bill is more like Hobbes than Calvin.

Starbucks economics. Why Starbucks has a better, cheaper coffee that it keeps a secret.

A crash course in learning theory.

Your camera does not matter. “All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.”

Good and bad procrastination by Paul Graham.

The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn’t always bad?

Convert PDF to HTML via Gmail. This is the only way I know of converting something from PDF into another format. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for GoogleMail in the UK.

Paul Graham on picking a computer language. Excellent read.

Discussion on 43 Folders on presentation tips.

MIT OpenCourseWare on Google Base.