Ben Rasmusen

Why would you start and run your own business? You might say, “Money. What else could it be?” Well, that is the common assumption but this isn’t true for everyone, and depending on your answer, the path you take may be quite different. It sounds like common sense, but I see some very successful business people make bad decisions because they didn’t ask this question. - Ben Rasmusen

If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. The word "startup" dates from the 1960s, but what happens in one is very similar to the venture-backed trading voyages of the Middle Ages. - Ben Rasmusen

Jason Fried hates lame meetings, tech companies that don't generate revenue, and companies that treat their employees like children. A peek inside his typical workday - Ben Rasmusen

And though they had value, the possessions of these men were held onto loosely. They seemed to understand that like a handful of sand, the tighter you squeeze the less you can hold. - Ben Rasmusen

The topics include: Introduction to computer science. Computational complexity and quantum computing. Introduction to computing systems. The C programming language. Multicore programming. Statistics and data mining. Combinatorics. Software testing. Evolutionary computation. Deep learning. Data structures and algorithms. Bonus lecture: Computational origami. - Ben Rasmusen

Fever takes the temperature of your slice of the web and shows you what's hot. - Ben Rasmusen

Fever takes the temperature of your slice of the web and shows you what's hot. - Ben Rasmusen

Find a family you’d like to help. And 100% of your donation will join donations from others to directly pay an urgent bill or need for a local family on the edge. - Ben Rasmusen

If we can’t wash the dishes, the chances are we won’t be able to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will only be thinking of other things, barely aware of the cup in our hands. Thus we are sucked away into the future and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life. - Ben Rasmusen

Check out this website I found at dustincurtis.com AMAZING visual representation of a life. ... - Ben Rasmusen

via dustincurtis.com I've looked into polyphasic sleep before, but this article makes it easy to read about with it's beautiful design. ... - Ben Rasmusen

The abandoned places can look charming or they can look frightening, we tried to present it all. The abandoned cities of the former USSR look almost like clones and they resemble the concentration camps from the times of the World War II. - Ben Rasmusen

Here are a few scripts, that I find really useful for speeding up my web development time. - Ben Rasmusen

This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today's website. The beauty of this library is that all of these tools can be used together, extended, configured and styled. In the end, you can have hundreds of different widgets and new personal ways of using the library. - Ben Rasmusen