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When trouble comes to the palace
David sometimes wins. The Yahoo Peanut Butter Memo The Nokia Burning Platform Can’t think of a famous defensive pivot. Apple came back from the dead. Microsoft retreated on consumer. Facebook made the pivot to mobile. But when Facebook today is
When trouble comes to the palace
David sometimes wins. The Yahoo Peanut Butter Memo The Nokia Burning Platform Can’t think of a famous defensive pivot. Apple came back from the dead. Microsoft retreated on consumer. Facebook made the pivot to mobile. But when Facebook today is
Productivity systems of the nerdy and obsessive
Lifetime highlight. A note from my idol on a topic I care a lot about with the gesture that maybe he cares what I think! More of my relevant writings here
Productivity systems of the nerdy and obsessive
Lifetime highlight. A note from my idol on a topic I care a lot about with the gesture that maybe he cares what I think! More of my relevant writings here
Tl;dr: Laszlo Bock’s “Work Rules” and googling “diversity” / updated
The famous Google People Operations chief wrote a book in 2015. The word “diversity” appears zero times. Here is Google’s Diversity Report from 2014, when they *started* reporting it as a company (or perhaps started measuring it). And here it
Tl;dr: Laszlo Bock’s “Work Rules” and googling “diversity” / updated
The famous Google People Operations chief wrote a book in 2015. The word “diversity” appears zero times. Here is Google’s Diversity Report from 2014, when they *started* reporting it as a company (or perhaps started measuring it). And here it
Tl;dr: Tetlock’s “Expert Political Judgment”
Tetlock is a cognitive psychologist who got much more famous recently for his great book “Superforecasting”. We read it in my Columbia class. That book has a great hook: he runs a contest and sees who wins, describing the habits
Tl;dr: Tetlock’s “Expert Political Judgment”
Tetlock is a cognitive psychologist who got much more famous recently for his great book “Superforecasting”. We read it in my Columbia class. That book has a great hook: he runs a contest and sees who wins, describing the habits
Tl;dr: Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation”
Highlights I came to Sontag late. Her “On Photography” is amazing. But the first piece of criticism is “Against Interpretation.” What does it say? That art seems to be hijacked by critics. They want to know what a work says,
Tl;dr: Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation”
Highlights I came to Sontag late. Her “On Photography” is amazing. But the first piece of criticism is “Against Interpretation.” What does it say? That art seems to be hijacked by critics. They want to know what a work says,
“Sarva”, an uncommon name; what does it mean?
All, every. Whole, entire. Of of relating to Vishnu or Shiva. Also, something about hurting or injuring when spelling differently, and sometimes combined with the Shiva thing into a meaning about striking down evil.
“Sarva”, an uncommon name; what does it mean?
All, every. Whole, entire. Of of relating to Vishnu or Shiva. Also, something about hurting or injuring when spelling differently, and sometimes combined with the Shiva thing into a meaning about striking down evil.
Tl;dl: Freakonomics interviews people who got great ideas
Freakonomics on good ideas Luck Motion Prepared mind Distinctive action Margaret Geller – feeling free. So an idea can come structured the shortcut approach to a view Used a new tech Had a new map of the cosmos George Dyson
Tl;dl: Freakonomics interviews people who got great ideas
Freakonomics on good ideas Luck Motion Prepared mind Distinctive action Margaret Geller – feeling free. So an idea can come structured the shortcut approach to a view Used a new tech Had a new map of the cosmos George Dyson
Tl;dr: Money and Class in America by Lewis Lapham
14 Points about New Money: Lapham was famous for this book and other writing before he was famous for steering Harper’s Magazine and his other intellectual trendsetting. Back in the 80s though this satirical masterpiece – “I went to Yale,
Tl;dr: Money and Class in America by Lewis Lapham
14 Points about New Money: Lapham was famous for this book and other writing before he was famous for steering Harper’s Magazine and his other intellectual trendsetting. Back in the 80s though this satirical masterpiece – “I went to Yale,
Tl;dr: Handels Messiah: A Celebration
Handel was living in London. Hanging out with the Jonathan Swifts and Royal Society types. Be he was tight on cash. Wrote Messiah. It’s in english. Debut? Dublin. Boom, it played every year since without interruption. Handel made hits. More
Tl;dr: Handels Messiah: A Celebration
Handel was living in London. Hanging out with the Jonathan Swifts and Royal Society types. Be he was tight on cash. Wrote Messiah. It’s in english. Debut? Dublin. Boom, it played every year since without interruption. Handel made hits. More
Tl;dr: Hannah Arendt’s Crises of the Republic, lying, and the present age
1950s made the 1960s. Madison Avenue = image is everythingThe war machine’s Whiz Kids like Ford’s President = measure everything Robert McNamara and Vietnam: measure the image, war is winning polls, truth doesn’t matter. And that of course is the
Tl;dr: Hannah Arendt’s Crises of the Republic, lying, and the present age
1950s made the 1960s. Madison Avenue = image is everythingThe war machine’s Whiz Kids like Ford’s President = measure everything Robert McNamara and Vietnam: measure the image, war is winning polls, truth doesn’t matter. And that of course is the
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