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The first America tends to make the finer-sounding speeches, and the second America often strikes cruder, more xenophobic notes. But both understandings of this country have real wisdom to offer, and both have been necessary to the American experiment’s success.

The extra effort caused by our overengineering carries a hefty opportunity cost.

There’s a lot more to life than being rich, and the people you really want to have in your life know that.

Don’t hire an agency that does sample work before you’ve explained your problem. What could they possibly be solving? They’re trying to impress you with pretty.

An archive of quality Hacker News "Ask YC" posts grouped by subject.

On corporate blogs, summaries are usually superior to full articles because they let you expose users to a broad selection of topics. Offering more topics increases the likelihood that users will find something that really interests them and thus will click through to read more.

A well-expressed and thought-out collection of all the major reasons we shouldn't get excited about mergers.

Two ways out of the starving artists problem, both fun. First is to focus on making your art more valuable to others. The second is to stop expecting it to be valuable to others. Accept it as personal and precious to only you. Get your money elsewhere.

A really good explanation of Ruby modules as mixins, bundles of functionality.

An excellent explanation of one of the main purposes of Ruby modules: namespacing, and a fun read.