Posts tagged with Reading
Everything is Bullshit
Pricenomics is a startup that has somehow stumbled upon a pair of business models: data crawling, and blogging about data from a consumer-centric perspective. The latter has a pop-culture economics bent; it's a technique taken straight from Freakonomics…
Flash Boys
I'm convinced that ever since humans have invented this idea of trade, that there soon followed people, with the idea that they can profit as middlemen, even if they have nothing to buy or sell directly. This concept…
Hatching Twitter
One of my guilty reading pleasures is tech company biographies. That I'm a part of the industry and can relate to the motivations of founders and early employees is a given; I've followed companies' chronologies…
Cloud Atlas
I'll admit: I picked up the Cloud Atlas novel mostly because the trailer for the movie adaption of the same name looked pretty interesting, a juxtaposition of what seemed like many different places and time periods and themes.…
The Hard Thing about Hard Things
There aren't that many good articles on management in a technology company, and even less good books that go into much detail[1]. Square's leadership courses reference High Output Management, written by the president of Intel…
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Whiffies. A silly name for a foreboding concept. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a book with a few concepts ahead of its time. It takes place in a time when resources are effectively unlimited[1], where it…
