Showing posts with label management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label management. Show all posts
Monday, December 13, 2021

Review: Principles

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 I was assigned Principles as part of an onboarding reading. I'd never heard of Ray Dalio or Bridgewater Associates before, and I was d...
Monday, February 08, 2021

Post-COVID home and office design

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 Recently someone showed me a group photo from a Pokemon GoFest. My immediate reaction was visceral: this looks way too dangerous during COV...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Review: The Intelligence Trap - Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes

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I checked out The Intelligence Trap from the library half expecting it to be a let-down. I thought it might turn out to be another rehash o...
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Friday, April 27, 2018

Review: LG E42.5" UHD 4K monitor

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I normally like to wait for a bit before reviewing electronics, but there's a limited time deal on the 43UD79-B monitor  ($530), so I...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Review: Radical Candor

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Radical Candor is an ex-Googler's book about management. Kim Scott was the manager for Adsense's sales team, and grew the team for ...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Review: The Hard Thing about Hard Things

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I was all prepared to find The Hard Thing About Hard Things disappointing. CEO books are frequently about self-aggrandizement (e.g., Richar...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Review: Matterhorn

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My standard for Vietnam War books is The Things They Carried , by Tim O'Brien. But Matterhorn might very well replace that. Matterhorn ...
Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Review: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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One chapter in Peopleware that always resonates in my mind is the chapter on "Spanish Theory Management": Some years ago I was s...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Indexing Google's Source Code

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I couldn't talk about this before, but now that Wired magazine has disclosed the size of Google's code base  (2 billion lines), I ca...
Thursday, March 05, 2015

Fictional Leadership

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I've often maintained that fiction is as good a source of leadership training as non-fiction, since much non-fiction is written in terms...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Interviewing and Performance

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Recently, someone asked me a deep question: we all know (and Google has the data ) that interviews do a poor job of predicting on-the-job pe...
Thursday, May 01, 2014

Review: How to Win Friends and Influence People

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How to Win Friends and Influence People is currently $2.99 on the Kindle store. I'd gotten this far in life without reading the book, b...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Quantifying the Apple Tax

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The last time I was a Mac user was in 2009 when I upgraded to the Canon 5D Mk 2 and got rid of my Mac Mini as being too slow to run Lightroo...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

The "Science" in Computer Science

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When I was an undergraduate , it was very common for many of us to view the "science" in Computer Science as an oxymoron. The proo...
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Friday, September 14, 2012

Market Efficiency

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Most companies understand not to cheap out on machines for engineers. The cost of a top end development machine is about $5,000, and when yo...