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My Week in Review (2017-07-23)

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My Week in Review (2017-07-23)

Blake Embrey
Jul 24, 2017
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My Week in Review (2017-07-23)

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What Happened?

  • Back in San Francisco for 3 weeks

  • Visited VR World

Internet

  • Useful

    • Developing Leadership Skills

    • What a study into Wikipedia’s norms can teach us about creating non-hierarchical social structures

    • The company isn’t a family

    • Productivity advice for the weird

  • Video

    • Live Office Hours with Kevin Hale and Dalton Caldwell

  • Interesting

    • How to start a sidehustle

    • The 5 Productive Morning Routines Of Highly Effective People

    • How the Idea of a ‘Normal’ Person Got Invented

    • Do Asian Lives Matter? Contemplating Disparate Coverage of Charleena Lyles’s and Tommy Le’s Deaths

    • The Ultimate Guide to Habits – Peak Performance Made Easy

    • This image is why self-driving cars need many types of sensors

    • Hacking a Segway

    • How do you become a leader without explicit authority?

    • Tech has a Toxic Tone Problem — Let’s Fix It!

  • Opinion

    • Love the One You’re With

    • The Japanese First Lady might have pretended not to speak English for two hours to avoid chatting with Trump

    • Seth's Blog: All deals are handshake deals

    • Seth's Blog: How much does a ton weigh?

    • Seth's Blog: Toward dumber

    • Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS

    • Daring Fireball: Samsung Describes Its Male and Female Bixby Assistants With Sexist Descriptions

    • Daring Fireball: Garry Kasparov on Trump and Putin

    • Daring Fireball: Transmit 5

    • Daring Fireball: Only 45 Percent of Trump Voters Believe Don Jr. Met With the Russians, After Junior Admitted It

  • News

    • Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year

  • Software

    • Making Money

    • Let’s Build the Tiniest Blockchain

    • So, you decided to contribute to open source

    • Do we need specialized graph databases? Benchmarking real-time social networking applications

    • Teaser -- Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio

    • You probably shouldn’t use DynamoDB

    • Getting Started with Event Sourcing in Postgres

    • Postgres Randomized Primary Keys

    • How Google Wants To Rewire The Internet

Reading

  • Earth Unaware

  • The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

  • Algorithms to Live By (audiobook)

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