Unschooled

Hi, I'm Nick. This is my blog. I'm a life-long unschooler living in New York. You can find more about me here.

I help run the Recurse Center (YC'S10).

Follow me @nicholasbs

My family and I disavow Open Connections

Recent posts

20 Mar 2012 » Understanding the "this" keyword in JavaScript
06 Jan 2012 » The Path to Hacker School
09 Nov 2011 » The most beautiful ideas I've encountered
22 Oct 2011 » How to setup Emacs for Clojure on Mac OS X Lion
30 Sep 2011 » Apple, Facebook and Emotional Engagement
18 Sep 2011 » Netflix and the future
13 Sep 2011 » The cofounder search fallacy
04 Jul 2011 » An Independence Day Challenge
30 May 2011 » How I nap
15 Apr 2011 » The next peak
23 Mar 2011 » How to ask for things
10 Mar 2011 » The value of symmetric social connections decays
04 Mar 2011 » What Sam Altman taught me about risk
02 Mar 2011 » Looking for a cofounder? Reverse the order of operations
09 Feb 2011 » Live without regrets
21 Jan 2011 » Another advantage of specialized apps
12 Jan 2011 » What if something you're certain of is wrong?
29 Dec 2010 » Thoughts on why writing is valuable and how to do it
29 Dec 2010 » Don't fool yourself
07 Dec 2010 » Can interview puzzles help find startup ideas?
12 Nov 2010 » First, know thyself
07 Nov 2010 » Networking shouldn't be a dirty word
05 Nov 2010 » Carcassonne and when to pivot
20 Aug 2010 » Starting a company is hard. So what?
25 Jul 2010 » How to hack your motivation function and stay motivated
29 Mar 2010 » An abridged timeline of the past 15 years of my life
13 Mar 2010 » Living in 80 square feet
06 Mar 2010 » An open letter to my future self
25 Jan 2010 » Trading with friends for fun and profit
24 Jan 2009 » Happy Birthday, Macintosh
10 Jan 2009 » Life Optimization, Or, Brief Thoughts On What Has And Has Not Worked In Improving My Day-to-Day Life
05 Nov 2008 » "I'd rather hang out with the liberals and argue about economics than hang out with the Republicans and argue about Darwin and stem cells."
05 Nov 2008 » The atmosphere in New York City
29 Sep 2008 » This may be short lived...
07 Sep 2008 » A triumphant return
21 Feb 2008 » Wow. Just, wow.
24 Dec 2007 » It’s a Wonderful Machine
24 Nov 2007 » Vindicated by DNA, but a Lost Man on the Outside
04 Nov 2007 » What can be said?
03 Nov 2007 » I hope he’s right…
24 Sep 2007 » Never prouder
23 Sep 2007 » Tomorrow should be interesting
28 Aug 2007 » New design
11 Aug 2007 » This is not fiction
04 Jul 2007 » Happy Independence Day
30 Jun 2007 » iPhone first impressions
24 Jun 2007 » Too good not to post
19 Jun 2007 » Where’s the outrage?
10 Jun 2007 » Caught in limbo
29 May 2007 » The importance of environmental design (why whiteboards are awesome)
25 May 2007 » Do schools kill creativity?
23 May 2007 » These guys are crazy
23 May 2007 » Launched