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		<title>Rework</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason Fried and David H. Hansson of 37signals have been an inspiration to the startup community with their strong stand on how they do business. Their first book &#8220;Getting Real&#8221; targeted developers of web-based software. Rework, their latest book, contains more generic ideas that could be useful for any small business. It consists of 100 ideas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startup Weekend Istanbul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been 1.5 year since I attended Atlanta Startup Weekend. Among startup events taking place in Istanbul such as etohum, webrazzi meetups etc. Startup Weekend Istanbul was the best in terms of bringing a diverse set of high quality people together. The selection process to attend the event combined with great sponsors to make it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarp.me/?p=301</link>
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		<title>Predictably Irrational</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Predictably Irrational is a book about human behavior and our decision making process from a behavioral economics perspective. Each chapter describes a force that affects our decision making process, such as social norms, emotions, relativity etc. The author presents a different perspective compared to standard economics, where we assume that all agents are rational. What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarp.me/?p=287</link>
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		<title>Lessons Learned the Hard Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Admitting the problem is the first step to a solution. I&#8217;ve been exercising on and off for 6 years and given the amount of time and effort I&#8217;ve put into it, I&#8217;m very far away from the body I deserve. I&#8217;ve come up with several conclusions: i) You can not improve what you don&#8217;t measure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarp.me/?p=279</link>
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		<title>GitHub Contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the Netflix Prize is over, Github has a new competition for those interested in recommendation systems. GitHub wants to recommend its users repositories to watch. They have a data set that tells which user is watching which repository. They have removed one watched repository from 4788 users in this data set, so your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarp.me/?p=261</link>
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		<title>Click</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click is a book by Bill Tancer, founder of Hitwise &#8211; a company that tracks online usage. This book is about understanding human behavior and drawing conclusions from aggregate online behavior such as search trends. It has a very interesting start talking about adult sites: Throughout the year, Thanksgiving is the day with least visits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarp.me/?p=255</link>
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		<title>The Programmable Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like reading/learning more than thinking/imagining. But this is a learned habit, and I&#8217;d like to change that. So here&#8217;s a little thought exercise: Imagine you are living in a smart home where all your electronic appliances are connected to the Internet. Just like web sites do, your home appliances have APIs that let you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarp.me/?p=240</link>
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		<title>The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t read a lot of marketing books but somehow I got interested in this one via recommendations on Friendfeed. But wait, this isn&#8217;t a marketing book. I would call it a book on strategy with marketing theme. It&#8217;s an old book, written in 1993, but it was very surprising to find most of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarp.me/?p=248</link>
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		<title>Outliers &#8211; The Story of Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading mostly non-fiction, Malcolm Gladwell is one of my favorite authors. I feel as if he&#8217;s a writer of my generation since he published his books in 2000 (The Tipping Point) and 2005 (Blink). Both of them were best-sellers, and very good reads. This time, he&#8217;s arguing that &#8220;there is something profoundly wrong with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarp.me/?p=232</link>
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		<title>Lessons learned at Atlanta Startup Weekend 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is intended for people who will attend a Startup Weekend event for the first time. Why attend a Startup Weekend? It&#8217;s a better networking event compared to daily events. You&#8217;ll cooperate together to achieve a common goal, you&#8217;ll suffer together, you&#8217;ll have fun together. Overall, you&#8217;ll spend more time together, and form stronger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarp.me/?p=207</link>
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