Friday, April 02, 2010

Last Day at Google

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Today was my last day at Google. It's been 6.5 years since I first started at Google , and let me tell you when I first joined I did not...
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Geyserville Ride

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Geyserville Ride The Western Wheeler Geyserville weekend ride started out close to Chad 's weekend retreat, so he invited Lisa and I to ...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Clipless pedals

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A lot of people buy clipless pedals and then on their first try, fall over at a stop light because they can't clip out. This is very si...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Review: Primitive

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Primitive is billed as a thriller by Mark Nykanen. When I saw that it listed global warming as a theme, I read it (it was one of the Amazon...

Review: Dear Undercover Economist

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Dear Undercover Economist is a collection of columns of that name from the Financial Times newspaper. As you might expect, Tim Harford ans...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Review: The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency

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The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency is the inverse of all the traditional English mystery novels. Instead of being set in England or America,...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Hacker News Dinner

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Xianhang Zhang , founder of Bumblebee Labs placed a notice on Hacker News a few weeks ago asking if there was anyone interested in having h...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Pigeon Point 2010 Edition

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Pigeon Point 2010 This year's Tour of the German Speaking Alps qualifier turned into a much larger group gathering with 13 people parti...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Compensation is hard, let's go shopping!

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Whenever you hear about a spate of acquisitions by big companies of innovative small companies, there's always a temptation to point fi...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Why the rush to get big?

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I really have to wonder. What was going on in the Board of Directors when Microsoft decided to become a 60,000 person company? Were they thi...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Review: Manifold Time

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Manifold Time is Stephen Baxter's novel about The Carter Catastrophe . Baxter starts the story off about commercial space flight, getti...
Monday, March 08, 2010

Checking Your Accountant's Work

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Someone recently at work wrote the following in favor of getting someone else to do your taxes: Has anybody talked about time spent and stre...
Saturday, March 06, 2010

Paperback edition of "An Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups" now available!

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It took over a week for CreateSpace to deliver, but the books are now here and ready to ship. You can now place orders at the book's web...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

A Game for Old-Timers

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When I was in college, I spent way too much time at the Workstations in Evans Basement playing Net-Trek . Well, if you're feeling nosta...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Review: The Spirit Level

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I have mixed feelings about The Spirit Level . On the one hand, I agree with the premise and the thesis of the book: a more equal society ma...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

The story behind the book

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I first thought of writing this book because of having to repeat myself too many times to every new employee at Google who asked me about e...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Review: John T Reed's Self-Publishing

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I really liked John T. Reed's Residential Property Handbook , and bought his Self-Publishing Book because I was going to publish my own...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Soft-launch of books.piaw.net

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My Kickstarter Project finished with 42 backers and over $1,000 in pre-orders! At this point, I've uploaded the final version of the bo...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Review: The Magicians

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I first read about The Magicians in an interview with Lev Grossman . In it, he proclaimed that the book was about a mash-up of Harry Potter...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Movie Review: Catfish

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Disclosure: I saw this movie for free at a Google-only screening. One could be forgiven in thinking that Google and Facebook sponsored this ...
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