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-perishab…
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 startups. There's a…
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's nothin…
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 unpopular.…
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 at le…