My Week in Review (2017-07-23)

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)