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-…
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…
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'…
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…
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…