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Building a Better Goodreads

Tim February 13, 2018 Books, Social Media, Tech No Comments
Building a Better Goodreads

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

Tim December 24, 2017 Books, Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Tech, Weekly Review No Comments
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 Review

Tim December 22, 2017 Books, Crypto, Tech, Weekly Review No Comments
Cryptoassets Review

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 Review

Tim December 1, 2017 Books, Entrepreneurship, Tech, Weekly Review No Comments
Chaos Monkeys Review

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 Review

Tim September 13, 2017 Books, Entrepreneurship, Tech, Weekly Review No Comments
Hello, Startup Review

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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Building a Food Contamination Data Set

Tim September 7, 2017 Tech, Tutorial 1 Comment
Building a Food Contamination Data Set

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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Profiting from Food Contamination

Tim July 22, 2017 Tech 1 Comment
Profiting from Food Contamination

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 Review

Tim May 21, 2017 Books, DevOps, Tech, Weekly Review No Comments
Building Microservices Review

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

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Having Fun with Rap Lyrics – An Abstract

Tim May 20, 2017 Hip hop, Tech, Tutorial No Comments
Having 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

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Your Password Probably Isn’t Secure

Tim November 27, 2016 Essay, Tech No Comments
Your 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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Recent Posts

  • Skip the Lead-in to Alpe du Zwift February 17, 2022
  • Best Pull-Up Bar for Wide Doorways January 30, 2022
  • I Got My Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards Graded! January 20, 2022
  • Best At-Home Gym Equipment for Runners January 20, 2022
  • I Sent My Childhood Pokemon Collection to PSA January 20, 2022
  • Blueprint for Newberry Park’s Perfect Track Season December 21, 2021
  • Fall 2021 NCAA DI XC Championship Recap November 25, 2021
  • Best Knife to Carry While Running November 5, 2021
  • How to Prepare for PoCV11 November 3, 2021
  • Is the 1-of-1266 Pontiac Solstice Coupe Actually Collectible? September 6, 2021

My Most Recent Books

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
liked it
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
by William Poundstone
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
really liked it
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
by Antony C. Sutton
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
it was ok
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
by Emanuel Derman
Slaughterhouse-Five
it was amazing
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
liked it
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Benjamin Wallace
Pulphead
liked it
Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
really liked it
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
by Taylor Larimore

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