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My Week in Review (2017-07-31)

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My Week in Review (2017-07-31)

Blake Embrey
Aug 1, 2017
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My Week in Review (2017-07-31)

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What Happened?

  • Omakase

  • Watched Baby Driver (would recommend) and A Cure For Wellness (would not recommend)

Internet

  • Favourite

    • The Evolution of Trust

    • There’s A Genius Street Artist Running Loose In New York, And Let’s Hope Nobody Catches Him

    • What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer

    • This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit

  • Useful

    • Successful Solo Founders

    • I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People

    • Make it count

    • The Ultimate Guide to Personal Finance: Money Management Made Simple

  • Video

    • Alex Jones: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

    • How to Raise Money, and How to Succeed Long-Term - CS183F

    • The Machine - Bert Kreischer: THE MACHINE

    • Bert Kreischer - the time I went skydiving with Rachael Ray

    • Bert Kreischer - Fighting a Bear

    • Bert Kreisher Full Stand Up 2016 'THE MACHINE'

    • BFFs - Take The Objective (Season 3E6)

    • Illuminati Easter Egg - Battlefield 4 Secret Camo

  • Interesting

    • People’s IQs have risen over time. Now social message complexity seems to be rising too. But why?

    • Get ready for climate scientists to spray particles in the atmosphere to cool the Earth

    • The tech world is convinced 2021 is going to be the best year ever—what’s the deal?

    • Ten Years of Worthless Side Projects

    • Kerbal Space Fuel Fiasco

    • Kerbal Space Oddities

  • Opinion

    • Optimism and the Fountain of Youth

    • Perennial Seller, Part 1

    • Steal My Stuff, Please, Part 2

    • Trump Says Tim Cook Has Promised to Build Three Manufacturing Plants in U.S.

    • Nine Minutes of Doubt

    • Jason Snell on Apple Park’s Open Work Spaces

    • WSJ Profile on Jony Ive and Apple Park

    • Saving Tip: Using sub-savings accounts for unexpected expenses

    • Automating your money — especially for entrepreneurs and freelancers

    • Managing your personal finances is NOT about more willpower

    • How to save money

    • Automating your Personal Finances

    • 4 best ways to invest in your 20s

  • News

    • Bitcoin has avoided tearing itself apart (for now)

  • Software

    • Managing large numbers of GitHub notifications

    • labels.md

    • Drive me to Toronto, Hal.

    • Unordered Lists in Markdown

    • Google not Amazon — Make fantastic savings in a serverless world

Reading

  • I Will Teach You To Be Rich

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

  • Algorithms to Live By (audiobook)

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