This is enormously important, particularly in the early stages of career development. A good mentor can make a huge difference to your career trajectory and save you a lot of time in the process.

Yeah, that’s fair. It’s very personal. What means a great deal to one person is meaningless to another. I suppose a lot of this comes down to early experiences and the era and culture in which one was raised.

Yeah, that’s what I thought. It’s really not that big a deal but you never know with these mega-corporations.

I assume Amazon’s going to be unhappy about doing this with your Kindle. Does this have any ramification for future e-book purchases? Is there even any way for Amazon to find out you’ve jailbroken your device?

Does having all this greenery and organic stuff around you feed into your productivity or overall happiness?

True. To my knowledge Duolingo has yet to offer premium services and I don’t think their site carries advertising, so I’m not sure what their long-term strategy is.

I stumbled upon this accidentally after I spent two hours doodling during a particularly excruciating work assigment. Surprisingly soothing and time just flew by.

I haven’t read comics since I was a teenager so I’m curious about the culture: do comic book fans miss the tactile, sensory experience of paper comics as much as readers of e-books?

I’ve seen Mark Sisson’s stuff recommended by a number of health-related sources that I follow, but I’ve always been a little intimidated by the content on his blog. I probably just need to apply myself better to the material.

I’ve enjoyed Guillebeau’s books and blog for a few years now. He writes really inspiring stuff on work-life balance and creating an authentic and fulfilling life. This idea is a prominent theme in his latest book ‘Born for this’. I’d definitely recommend taking a look if you’re into this topic (and also ‘The $100…

This is a bit of a departure for Duolingo. I can see the connection to language learning, but I’m just wondering why the company is motivated to get into other learning contexts.

Great piece Patrick. Really interesting. Just out of curiosity, what kind of acting were you doing and for how long? Do you still do any amateur stuff?

Have any good methods for secure-deleting from an SSD emerged? The last time I checked, there were no utilities that could do so as efficiently as on a hard drive.

Still. Looks lovely and lush.

In principle this sounds great, but I’m not sure how well it’ll work in the real world. Definitely a step in the right direction for smarter apps.

Cute idea.

One of life’s most important lessons. Wish I’d picked it up earlier in the journey.

I know nothing about bikes but that’s a great looking machine and very reasonably priced.

Even SwiftKey is free now. I’m surprised Swype hasn’t done the same.

I’ve often wondered about this. It’s only ever happened a couple of times over the years, but I find it a little spooky. I’d much rather go into my account and made the adjustment myself. Then again I can be a little paranoid.