Category: Featured
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Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
In July of last year, I listened to Brett McKay’s Art of Manliness podcast Episode #219: The Real Life Story of Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises. McKay likes interviewing biographers who are writing about figures who are the actual subject of his interviews. In this episode, he talks with author Lesley Blume about her new book…
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Getting Started With Golang
I went to a Software Engineering Daily meetup a couple days ago and spoke with several CEOs whose companies are focused on data science and machine learning. I asked about what languages they are looking for in new hires. These conversations cemented my desire to learn Golang in conjunction with TensorFlow as my next major engineering…
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❤️ Must Listen: Tim Ferriss Interviews Dr. Phil Zimbardo of the Stanford Prison Experiment on What Makes a Person Either Heroic or Evil Under Pressure
Tim Ferriss interviews Dr. Phil Zimbardo of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment on what makes a person either heroic or evil under pressure. This was an amazing episode. They go very in depth on the research around this topic from antiquity to the cutting edge, and they identify several key things to watch out for in…
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Betting on JDST Overnight For Trump Speech
A perfect $JDST moment. Markets are down ahead of a big trump speech tonight. BUT, they are down because retailers are down. And Trump’s plan is seen as positive for the markets. I got half my portfolio in at $16.26. Tomorrow morning, money will flow out of gold and into defense and whatever kind of…
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❤️ Sam Harris and Jason Calicanis on Mindfulness, Truth, and which Trump is the Real Trump
Having closely followed both of these guys for years and listened to their podcasts on a weekly basis, I was very surprised to see them billed together on Jason’s podcast last week. I was also very surprised when during the introduction, they tell the story of how their circle of close friends has gotten together…
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Really Great Interview: Tim Ferriss and Kara Swisher
This is a great and wide-ranging interview. These are two complex and fascinating people. I have been on the fence for a long time about my feelings on her style, but this is the first time I have really felt like I understand her. I think I will follow her more closely from now on…
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Zero to One by Peter Thiel
After the Gawker case, earlier this year, I decided to start following Thiel’s career. He is a fascinating figure with his hands in lots of different businesses, many of which figure heavily into the larger theme of futurism that has become so important to me. I have since watched dozens of his interviews on YouTube…
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❤️ Dale Carnegie – How To Win Friends and Influence People
2016-12-1 Started I first read this book in elementary school, but I wanted to refresh my memory as many of my coworkers have been recently reading it. 2017-04-23 Completed Well it took five months of picking up and setting down to finish this book. It is a bit dry, but there is a huge amount of…
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Software Engineering Daily Podcast: Indie Hackers
This episode is about Courtland Allen and his project indiehackers.com which features interviews of succesful independent developers who have made profitable tech startups without raising money. In essence, this is a site about smart creative tech people with good side projects that are making them money and helping facilitate the digital nomad lifestyle. It also…
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How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
This great book came recommended by Upendra Kulkarni who I talked with at some length about my interest in business applications for machine learning. This is one of those books that I immediately know I will be thinking of for years to come. I found it very enlightening; from a leadership perspective as well as an employee…