23rd March 2020
I'm a big believer in an idea that Nassim Taleb popularized in his Incerto
series called the Lindy effect [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect]. Put
simply, it's a theory that the future life expectancy of some non-…
10th July 2018
This post is about Eric Ries's book "The Lean Startup". This book's message has
a wider applicability than one might think, because contrary to what the title
suggests, its methodology applies to more than just s…
3rd November 2017
This post is about Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens
[https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095]. All
of my favorite books have changed the way I view the world in some non-trivial
way. There'…
26th June 2017
This post is about Peter Thiel's book Zero to One
[https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296]. I'm
generally fascinated by how very smart people view the world, particularly if
those views are unp…
6th May 2017
This post is about Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow
[https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555/]. This
is a book that everyone should probably read at some point in their lives, or a…