Links - December 11, 2015
Well, I finished the first season of Startup, and then, I got bored… Take note Alex Blumberg! The reasons why I was enjoying it so much were the SV outsider tone, the feeling of surprise when lingo had to be explained, and, perhaps most importantly, the fact that I listened to a whole season of Reply All before I started with StartUp. To me, Gimlet is just a more interesting business to learn about than Dating Ring (sorry matchmaker aficionados).
Now, since I always NeedMoreContent™, I started a class on coursera and it has been awesome to learn about the low level pieces that make up a computer. It’s been less than a week since I started, and I am already halfway through week 4 of the course. The class is aimed at people with 0 engineering background, and I would definitely recommend it if you are interested in computing.
- The destruction of Alderaan was completely justified Sonny Bunch - The Washington Post
- Capital Is No Longer Scarce Albert Wenger - Continuations
- Our Year of Living Airbnb David Roberts - The New York Times
- "Market Rate" is for Lobsters Ernie Miller
- Hanukkah, Why? Emma Green - The Atlantic
- I don’t give a **** if we agree about climate change. Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Reading the world in 196 books Ann Morgan - BBC
- In Other Countries, You’re as Likely to Be Killed by a Falling Object as by a Gun Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz - New York Times
- Pythonic means idiomatic and tasteful Andrew Montalenti
- A bad citizen in Javaland Darren Hobbs
- What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Steven M. Seitz and Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman - Graphics and Imaging Laboratory, University of Washington
- Chasing Unicorns Eric Lefkofsky
- How to do anything Justin Kan
- All the roads that lead to Rome Moovel Lab
- Teens can't tell the difference between Google ads and search results James Vincent - The Verge
- The Banality of Trumpism Paul Krugman - New York Times
- How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil Planet Money (podcast)
- Auditing ISIS Planet Money (podcast)