Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Review: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Extended Edition on Kindle

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I used to subscribe to science fiction magazines on paper. Pulp magazines really haven't changed for decades, though the content has cha...
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Friday, May 25, 2012

Review: Scott Pilgrim

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I came to Scott Pilgrim by way of the movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World . I could explain the plot, but you'd probably have more fun wa...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Two of my books are now available on Amazon!

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The 3rd Edition of An Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups is now available on Amazon.com . Since paper books are now a vanishin...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Review: Banana - The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

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I love bananas. They are by far my favorite fruit, and judging from the statistics in the book, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed t...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Review: Just Ride, A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike

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I've known Grant Petersen since his Bridgestone days, and have ridden with him several times, as well as contributed to his newsletter, ...

An Inflated Sense of Risk

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I was at the Berkeley alumni panel organized by Dan Wallach a week or so back, and was very fortunate to be seated next to Jon Blow when s...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Don't Blame The Engineer

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I was talking to someone at a big company recently, and we talked about their retention problem. The person said something to the effect tha...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Choosing between jobs

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One question that occasionally comes up at the end of a Negotiation cycle is, "Ok, now I have all these offers, how do I choose?"...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Sharing on G+: It doesn't always mean what you think it means

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Sharing on Google Plus has always bothered me, but it wasn't recently until I got a grasp on why it bugged me so much. Most of it is bec...
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Review: The Power of Habit, why we do what we do in life or business

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I first ran across The Power of Habit through a New York Times excerpt from the book about How Target knew you were pregnant even if you di...
Friday, May 11, 2012

Review: Bringing up Bebe

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I had very low expectations for Bringing up Bebe . The author's a journalist, and I didn't expect a densely packed tome of informati...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

D&D at Google

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An Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups describes how I ended up joining Google because of a D&D Game I joined in late 2001...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

An Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups, 3rd Edition

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My first book, An Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups continues to sell very well, considering that there's essentially no ...
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Monday, May 07, 2012

Review: End this depression now!

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I'm a big fan of Paul Krugman, and his latest book, End this depression now! made it to my kindle as a pre-order, something I hardly ev...
Sunday, May 06, 2012

Review: The Four Hour Body

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I'm of two minds about The Four Hour Body . For one thing, it covers topics that I have yet to see in any real workout book elsewhere. F...
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Thursday, May 03, 2012

Review: Google Drive

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I was one of the enthusiastic early users of Google Drive way back in 2007, when it launched internally at Google. It was great. I would dro...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Review: Among Others

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Every so often, you run across a novel so sublime and brilliantly written that you want to go out and recommend it to everyone you know who ...
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Independent Cycle Touring at Google

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For bike to work week, I've agreed to reprise the Independent Cycle Touring in Europe presentation at Google's campus at HQ. It wil...
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Monday, April 30, 2012

Cal Alumni Panel

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I'll be one of the Alumni on the panel in Berkeley on Friday. If you'll be in Berkeley, please feel free to drop by! I won't be...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Google shows that Moore's Law can go backwards

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I used to pay $5/year for 20GB of additional Google storage. With the launch of Google Drive, however, Google has changed the prices on stor...
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