Blog AF

It seems like this is a good reading week for me. A ton of articles, plus about to finish two books. Can’t complain.

• Here’s Why Bernie Sanders’ 5% Growth Plan Isn’t Crazy After All
  Mark Thoma - The Fiscal Times
  
• A Former Homeless Man’s Perspective into Homelessness in San Francisco
  Jeffrey Wilson - LinkedIn
  
• Trust and Democracy: The Odd Parallels between Trump and Apple
  Albert Wenger - Continuations
  
• Inequality Against Freedom
  Chris Dillow - Stumbling and Mumbling
  
• The end of the establishment?
  Robert B. Reich - Baltimore Sun
  
• LinkedIn Problems Run Deeper Than Valuation
  Damian Kimmelman - TechCrunch
  

• The Savannah
  Henry George - Wealth and Want
  
• Apple, the FBI, and Security
  Ben Thompson - Stratechery
  
• The U.S. has Gone F&*%ing Mad
  James Allworth - Medium
  
• The Scold
  Nick Paumgarten - The New Yorker
  
• Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself
  Roc Morin - The Atlantic
  
• What’s Next in Computing?
  Chris Dixon - Medium
  
• Codeology, a GitHub visualization
  Braintree
  

• We’re in a brave, new post open source world
  Nadia Eghbal - Medium
  
• Peak Paper
  John Quiggin
  
• Infix Operators in Python
  Tomer Filiba
  
• Given that Trump is winning, which other views should we update?
  Tyler Cowen - Marginal Revolution
  
• GitHub lock-in?
  Aurélien Gâteau
  
• Mobile, smartphones and hindsight
  Benedict Evans
  
• How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls
  Isoroku Yamamoto
  
• Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
• Is Kayne West leveraging monopoly power?
  Joshua Gans - Digitopoly
  
• Assisted Drawing
  Samim Winiger - Medium
  
• If company slogans were honest
  Joe Bagel - Medium
  

• What Most People Don't Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued
  Mark Suster - Both Sides of the Table
  
• 10 years ago they beat MIT. Today, it's complicated
  Richard Ruelas - Arizona Republic
  
• The Dream of the 90s
  Noah Smith - Noahpinion
  
• The Curse Of The Gifted Programmer
  Eric S. Raymond - linux-kernel mailing list, in response to Linus Torvalds
  
• The Yahoo Problem
  Sapan Bhuta
  
• Why Schools Need to Introduce Computing in All Subjects
  Uri Wilensky - The Conversation
  
• Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities
  Julio M. Ottino and Gary Saul Morson - The Chronicle of Higher Education
  
• I no longer understand my PhD dissertation (and what this means for Mathematics Education)
  Junaid Mubeen - Medium
  
• How small is the world, really?
  Duncan Watts - Medium
  
• Vanguard's Low Blow
  Justin Fox - Bloomberg View
  
• Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music
  Manuel Araoz
  
• Sense2vec with spaCy and Gensim
  Matthew Honnibal - spaCy
  

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much.” ― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

As I said in my last post: attention is a zero sum game. I checked how much I have been reading online lately and I’m way below average (Yes, I keep stats on this. Yes, I know its nerdy). According to data from the past 2.5 years, I read about 10 articles per day (avg. 10.02, median 9) but in the last three weeks I’ve been floating between 5-7 per day. I think it will be impossible to keep up the usual 10-12 while maintaining my book reading goal and my new (bad?) habit of scrolling through Twitter a couple of times a day.

However, I’m proud to say that in the past couple of weeks I finished Why Information Grows and moved on to Cool Gray City of Love. Some thoughts on those two are coming.

• The Wrong Abstraction
  Sandi Metz
  
• Nothing Like This Has Ever Happened Before
  Kim-Mai Cutler - TechCrunch
  
• A Long Game
  Kim-Mai Cutler - TechCrunch
  
• Do You Work at Amazon?
  Dan McKinley
  
• Code rant: Heisenberg Developers
  MIKE HADLOW
  
• The Stream Map of the World
  Venkatesh Rao - Ribbon Farm
  
• What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
  Glenn Reid - Inventor Labs
  
• Immigration, crime & jobs
  Chris Dillow - Stumbling and Mumbling
  
• The Reality of Missing Out
  Ben Thompson - Stratechery
  
• My Little Sister Taught Me How To “Snapchat Like The Teens”
  Ben Rosen - Buzzfeed
  
• What 74 Years of Crossword History Says About the Language We Use
  Charles Kurzman and Josh Katz - New York Times
  
• Economists Against the Draft
  Binyamin Appelbaum - New York Times
  
• Andreessen Regrets India Tweets; Zuckerberg Laments Comments
  Adi Narayan - Bloomberg