Saturday, April 30, 2011

Mad Men Season 4

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At 13 episodes a season, Mad Men manages to keep the quality of its writing high, and Mad Men: Season Four was not an exception. What's...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Review: The Immigrants

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The Immigrants is a novel set in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. For some reason, San Francisco has yet to have its Raymond Chandler, (...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Review: Ex Machina Volumes 1-6

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Ex Machina is a comic book about a superhero who talks to machines. Sounds like an interesting, if not all that exciting hook. Well, it tur...
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Review: Blood Music

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Blood Music is Greg Bear's classic book on nanotechnology and the "Gray Ooze" threat. The plot is implausible, including the ...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Review: Fables 15

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Fables 14 started a story arc that was interesting and got me to pre-order Fables Vol. 15 . Rather than attack the story arc directly, Fabl...
Thursday, April 07, 2011

Review: Outliers

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Outliers is an interesting counter-point to Talent is Over-rated . The big thesis behind the book is that context matters to success. Succe...
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Monday, April 04, 2011

Review: Brain Rules for Baby

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After Brain Rules , I've become a John Medina fan. I will read anything he writes, and to my surprise, he wrote Brain Rules for Baby: Ho...
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Review: Virgin Mobile LG Optimus V

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For as long as the Virgin Mobile LG Optimus V was at $149.95, it had been sold out. One lucky evening when I saw it available on the web-si...
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Sunday, April 03, 2011

Startup Recruiting

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Early on in Quora's life, there were lots of questions on Quora like Who are the best engineers at Google? , and Who are the rising star...
Saturday, April 02, 2011

Review: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

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Before picking up The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ , it is important to realize the Pullman is an atheist and not shy about it. S...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Financial Planning Talk

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A random group of people invited me to give a talk about financial matters. It was deemed better to have the talk off-site, so that's wh...
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Review: The World Without Us

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People have the tendency to describe books like The World Without Us as eco-porn. Alan Weisman asks (and then answers) the question: how wo...
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Review: Mad Men Seasons 1-3

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I am terrible at marketing, so when I saw that Mad Men was a show about advertising executives, I checked out Mad Men: Season One from the ...

Review: Tampopo

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Someone once told me that Tampopo is a great movie for foodies. It definitely has a lot about food, especially Ramen. The plot revolves a...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

It's Real!

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  It took 2 months, but finally, the US Copyright Office has acknowledged me as the author of Independent Cycle Touring .
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Upgrade pricing for Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups

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Someone asked me over e-mail if I could provide an upgrade for folks who'd bought the first edition. This seemed like a reasonable reque...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Book Publishing Experiments

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One of the fun things about running an independent book publishing business is that unlike a traditional business I get to make experiments!...
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Sports Basement Talk

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I gave a talk about Independent Cycle Touring yesterday at the Sports Basement in Sunnyvale. It was raining and the talk was lightly attend...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Review: Cowl

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Cowl is Neal Asher's time travel novel. The novel, not set in his Polity universe, follows two characters, a government trained special...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Review: T-mobile Pre-Paid

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At the start of the year, I switched over from a Verizon Droid to a Nexus 1 on T-mobile's Prepaid service. The choice was made mostly b...