Friday, May 31, 2013

Greece 2013

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We went to Greece this year for a sailing trip, bookended by days in Athens and Thira (on Santorini). I'll break up the visit thus int...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Review: The Best American Essays 2011

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I picked up The Best American Essays 2011 during an Amazon sale for about $1.99. At that price, it was a good buy for the 3-4 good articles...

Review: The Fine Print

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The Fine Print is David Cay Johnston's book about how corporations rip off the American people. The book starts with a great science fi...
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Friday, May 03, 2013

Review: Redshirts

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I'm  a big fan of John Scalzi's sense of humor, especially in Old Man's War . However, when I heard about Redshirts , I was less...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Re-read: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mainteneance

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I first read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance  in high school, and reading it then was an amazing discovery. I remember not being a...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Review: Big Skinny World Bifold Wallet

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I answer a lot of questions on Quora, but the one time I asked a question , I never got a satisfactory answer. I travel enough international...
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Review: Your Child's Growing Mind

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Mike Samuel recommended Your Child's Growing Mind to me, and while it was a good read, it's written in a verbose fashion, full of u...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Review: Wool

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I picked up Wool because I'd read about the success of the author, Hugh Howey, in going completely independent, first selling the book ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

PSA: Do take the undergraduate compilers class

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We just closed our hiring cycle for summer interns at Quark. During this period, we vetted tons of transcripts and resumes from top tier uni...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Review: The Signal and The Noise

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I've been a big fan of 538 and Nate Silver since the 2008 elections. The Signal and the Noise is his book about predictions, the state...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Review: Teach Your Children Well

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After reviewing a  book about the under-privileged kids amongst us, I had to go read a book about the very other end of the spectrum --- th...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Wharton Business School Presentation

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How to hire and keep engineers happy public from Piaw Na I was the lunch speaker today at the Wharton Business School in San Francis...
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Friday, March 08, 2013

Review: How Children Succeed

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In this age of hyper-parenting, queuing up and applying to pre-schools, one would expect How Children Succeed to be a book full of stories ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Internships

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The conventional wisdom on interns is that you cannot expect to get significant work done by interns: they take time to train, and by the ti...
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Long Term Review: Republic Wireless

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In my earlier review of Republic Wireless , I mentioned that I would likely give up the phone and return it and switch to Ting instead. Wel...
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Review: The Amazing Spiderman 2012

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I missed the reboot of the Spiderman movies last year, so caught it on my Nexus 7 instead recently. The Tobey Maguire Spiderman movies were...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

Review: Suzanne Vega @ Villa Montalvo

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I'm a bigger fan of concert venues than I am of individual performance artists. My list of great venues in the Bay Area include: The  ...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

First Impressions: Ting Galaxy Note 2

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I bought my wife a Galaxy Note 2 from Ting.com for Christmas. The selling point of buying from Ting as opposed to say, AT&T, Verizon, ...
Friday, February 08, 2013

Review: The Best American Science & Nature Writing

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Amazon had The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2012 on sale for $1.99, and when I saw Dan Ariely's name on it, I figured it ...

Startup Engineering Management visits Wharton School of Business in San Francisco

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Did you know that Wharton School of Business had a San Francisco Branch ? I didn't, until James Kilpatrick, affiliated with their entrep...