As of late I’ve found myself stumbling through the “new” Snapchat. I don’t use the app as much as I once did, and now it seems that every time I tap the icon and perform a few rudimentary swipes I
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Move Fast and Break Things Review
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin Rating: ★★★ Date Finished: December 24th, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon This book wasn’t what I was expecting. I guess that’s what
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Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar Rating: ★★★★ Date Finished: December 22nd, 2017 Reading Time: A day and a half My college roommate called me the other day. He told me
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 1st, 2017 Reading Time: Ten days; Audible Liar’s Poker—remember that book? I wonder how it was received in 1989. It’s now
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Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams by Yevgeniy Brikman Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: September 13th, 2017 Reading Time: A week What’s special about Hello, Startup is how thoroughly the author is dedicated to his craft.
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Following July’s Chipotle Norovirus outbreak, I wrote an article in which I analyzed ways that we might be able to profit from detecting food health incidents before they are disclosed by the mainstream media. For publicly traded companies, a confirmed
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My college roommate Alek Mosholt was a professional powerlifter and an amateur value investor. When Chipotle stock went into free fall following the Boston College norovirus debacle, his models indicated that the stock was fundamentally undervalued. He purchased it near
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Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems by Sam Newman. Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: May 21, 2017 Reading Time: One day This was the most enjoyable technical book I’ve ever read. Though I haven’t read many technical books. What fascinates me about
Read moreHaving Fun with Rap Lyrics – An Abstract
I’ve spent the past year thinking about rap lyrics. Matt Daniels’ The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop remains as the pinnacle of pop culture meets computer science and was the inspiration behind my development of Cypher, a program that calculates
Read moreYour Password Probably Isn’t Secure
Back when I first started “spending too much time on the computer,” I wanted to be a hacker1. The Uploading Virus scene in Independence Day was my main inspiration. I toiled on HackThisSite.org in my early teenage years but all I learned
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