More Mission
April 24, 2016
More...Links - April 22nd, 2016
- In Hamilton’s Debt Paul Krugman - The New York Times
- Implementers, Solvers, and Finders Randall Koutnik
- Apple's Organizational Crossroads Ben Thompson - Stratechery
- What Russia looked like before 1917 ... in color Dan Murano - The Washington Post
- What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity Ryan Compton - Clarifai
- On the Road to Recap Bill Gurley - Above the Crowd
- The best is the last Benedict Evans
I will steal a comment from Hacker News, because it was that good of an explanation of why this article, as interesting of a read as it is, says nothing: “To say that the technology is best when it’s ripe for replacement could just be flipped around. Technological advances happen when they happen and whatever gets replaced was the best we could do before then.”
Links - April 18th, 2016
- How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) Kim Mai Cutler - TechCrunch
A deep dive into the history (and disaster) of the San Francisco housing crisis.
- In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build Conor Dougherty - New York Times
Politicians in the San Francisco Bay Area are getting pulled in every direction, this NYT article tries to explain some of the complexities involved. In a strange coincidence, this article came out roughly a week after I read Kim-Mai’s article, linked above.
- School Is To Submit Overcoming Bias - Robin Hanson
- Machine Learning Meets Economics Nicolas Kruchten - Datacratic MLDB
- Growing a Nation Won't Always Grow Its Economy Noah Smith - Bloomberg View
When I tweeted at him asking for resources to understand the math behind this research, Noah recommended reading this pdf. To be honest, I haven’t had time for it yet.
- Domino's: Pizza and Payments Paul Price
- The Sacrificial Pancake Neal Sales-Griffin
A great analogy that prompts us to get started, knowing that, most likely, we’ll fail at first.
- Cellmates Radiolab (Podcast)
Recommended mostly for its first half, which talks about energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life. Another book to add to the list.
- Richard Jones on Transhumanism EconTalk (Podcast)
SF Weekends
April 17, 2016
Two weekends, one post. Mostly shot with my new 24mm 2.8f lens :) More...
Links - April 8th, 2016
- Broken Promises: The Housing Market in SF (And Ten Ideas to Fix It) Zac Townsend
A clear economic analysis of the housing market in San Francisco, its history, its distortions, and its intricacies. Zac makes good arguments, proposes attainable solutions, and brings examples of other cities arount the U.S. that have solved similar housing crises before.
- The Weird Redemption of SF's Most Reviled Tech Bro Lauren Smiley - Backchannel
While the city officials’ skepticism is understandable, their stubbornness to work with a capable person due to his background is not. Two very unexpected things I learned from this piece: 1) San Francisco’s homeless population has been around 6000 for over 25 years. 2) between nonprofits and city departments, $241M/year are spent on supporting San Francisco’s homeless population. That is, roughly $40k per person.
- Declining Mobility and Restrictions on Land Use Alex Tabarrok - Marginal Revolution
- A 26-Story History of San Francisco Alexis Madrigal - The Atlantic
I went to a meetup at 140 New Montgomery this week. The event was unremarkable, but the venue was odd. This essay tells its story.
- On your marks. Get set. Go. The fourth Facebook goldrush just started. Jeremy Liew - Lightspeed Venture Partners
Everyone is talking about bots.
- Why Kik Thinks Chatbots Will Kill Webpages Cliff Kuang - Fast Company
- What the iPhone has done to cameras is completely insane Roberto A. Ferdman - The Washington Post
- Stop Voter Suppression Robert Reich
- What Bernie Sanders Gets Right Mark Thoma - The Fiscal Times
As usual, Thoma asks the right questions. I am particularly interested in the “how is the social interest is defined?” aspect of his article. When companies, and identities, span across the world, our definitions of society change too.
- Losing Money Fred Wilson - AVC
- Film Dialogue Hanah Anderson and Matt Daniels - Polygraph