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How a trillion-dollar company is made
Book review: The NVIDIA Way
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Books I liked in 2024
What I enjoyed across genres this year.
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Rules (and exceptions) of innovation
The "Silicon Valley canon" includes lots of stories of small groups that created big things. One of these is not like the others.
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Fighting the last (economic) war
Did you know that not even 50 years ago, New York City was on the verge of bankruptcy? Seeing how that shaped Boomers' beliefs helps me understand…
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When is technology risky?
The 1984 book Normal Accidents provides a neat framework for thinking about risk in complex systems, but how well it's held up in practice is debatable.
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Climate change is being solved
We have a ways to go, but the battles have changed
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How a law becomes the law
Digital efforts are hamstrung by the government's organizational structure: who does what work and how they do it. And this problem persists because…
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Books I read in 2023
Roughly ranked from most to least favorite within each section.
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Old advice for a new era of coding
Even the most bullish takes on generative AI wouldn't say it's a greater revolution than everything that happened in tech from 1975 to 2022. So if this…
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How to read "How to Read a Book"
"What book are you reading?" is one of the most common questions you'll get. "How are you reading it?" is one of the least common questions you'll get…
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Pushing the limits of practice
"Deliberate practice" is hard to do outside of a few well-codified fields, but you can apply some of its elements become better at learning anything…
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