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Where Photos Go from Here
As of June 1st, Google Photos has formally ended its unlimited—albeit slightly resized and compressed—photo storage, nudging users towards one of their paid storage subscription plans. It's a classic rent-seeking business move, after spending years subsidizing…
Funny Chart Investing
Ever since the Square IPO, I’ve been keeping a closer eye on, while trying to learn more about, the US stock market. Even though my first job out of school involved supporting systems that aggregated financial data across stock…
Review: Delivering Happiness
Delivering Happiness, written by Tony Hsieh[1], was on my Kindle backlog for a number of years. When he shockingly and suddenly passed away late last year, the outpouring of grief reminded me that, despite these recent years away from…
Meme Finance
Out of college, I joined a company that aggregated financial data to sell to stock market traders and analysts; briefly explored the Master of Financial Engineering degree at Cal; ended up working for two FinTech startups that managed to scale…
The COVID Accelerant?
As I'm writing this, the US has vaccinated around 40% of our overall population, and the Bay Area is doing even better at with many counties at 50% or more. With the beginning of summer here, most activities—…
Review: The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks
Come for the NBA Jam, stay for the real world applications of Big Data. That’s the premise of The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks , anyway. The book talks about the phenomenon of the hot hand —that…
