Friday, April 30, 2010

Review: Predictably Irrational

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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions is Dan Ariely's book about his adventures with behavioral economics....

Loyalty is a two way street

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I was recently getting together with a friend/former colleague from a previous startup. We were discussing engineers who had spent a long ti...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

WM2016 Followup

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Our LG WM2016 somehow became unleveled, so I called the GeekSquad and had them come over. The technician first showed me how to level the ...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Diet and exercise don't work?

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In the Atlantic, Marc Ambinder wrote: Stigma might be more bearable—an unpleasant way station on the path to a thinner, healthier life—if di...
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Review: Up in the Air

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Ok, so this review is actually a bait and switch. Last night, Lisa wanted to watch a movie. I had neglected to sign up for Netflix, but then...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Guide to Startups Visits San Francisco

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LOLapps , a startup in San Francisco, has invited me to give a talk there on May 5th. It will be on-site, and the talk will be open to all c...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Review: Perfect Rigor

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Perfect Rigor is Masha Gessen's book about Grisha Perelman, the mathematician who proved the Poincaré Conjecture . It's a short bo...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Review: YOU: The Owner's Manual

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YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger was ...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Xianhang Zhang Returns!

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Xianhang Cooks After his last visit , I was very lucky to have more and longer conversations with Xianhang, including a long hike on Sat...
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Review: Planet Earth

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Planet Earth is the BBC HD documentary series covering all the various landscapes and wildlife of the planet. It also seems to be the Blu-R...
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Tips for Tech Leads

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One of the unending sources of frustrations of being an experienced engineer in a company full of fresh graduates is having to deal with new...
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand Trip Pictures

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I took a vacation for two weeks in Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia with my girlfriend and my parents. My parents mostly because they knew...
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Promotion Systems

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When doing research for my book , I interviewed several Googler old-timers. What surprised me was that two ex-Googlers said the same thing p...
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Selling Stock Post-IPO

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Google was unusual in that it had 3 lock up periods: a 30 day lockup, a 90 day lockup, and the 180 day lockup. The idea was to let pre-IPO s...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Review: Dollhouse

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Dollhouse is Eliza Dushku 's vehicle for showing off her versatility (lead actress and producer), and it's Joss Whedon 's world...
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Facebook is stealing Adsense Revenue

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Just before I left Google, I heard rumors that if you told your manager that you were leaving to join Facebook, you would be escorted out of...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Laundry

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Google has an unusual perk: on-site laundry machines. When I first joined, it was just one laundry machine sitting in building 0. By the tim...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Referral Programs

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Most companies, startups included, have employee referral programs. Nearly every corporation will tell you that referrals are the best sourc...
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Review: Garmin Edge 500

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Someone I knew decided he didn't like the color of his Garmin Edge 500 , so I bought it off him for $200. You can buy the version that...
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Facebook: Google Redux?

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It amuses me that what people say about Facebook today sound substantially the same as what people said about Google six and a half years a...