Links - February 11th, 2016
“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