Management
The Culture Map
Erin Meyer's The Culture Map gives a way of understanding where cross-cultural collaboration may run into challenges. What is your 'water' and how does it hold you back?
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Letters to My Kids
Dopamine -- Book Review: The Molecule of More
Life will throw traps your way. One of which is the optimization (by apps, especially) of the dopamine circuits which coincidentally drive user growth. Many addictive behaviors work this way. Learning more about dopamine starts to illuminate the mechanism of drive, desire and satisfaction.
Letters to My Kids
A Healthy Diet?
Eating well means cutting out sugars. But it's hard and something you're wired to crave.
Machine Learning
State of AI (LLM): Dec 2023
2023 was an amazing year for LLMs. Here is what is going on what it might mean for the world.
Letters to My Kids
Foundations of Health -- Book Review: Outlive
Book Review of the book Outlive by Peter Attia. One of the best health books in a long time.
Machine Learning
The Dilemma -- Book Review: The Coming Wave
The best book I've read in a long time. Absolutely required reading for anyone concerned about technological change from one of the luminaries of AI.
Letters to My Kids
Charlie Munger
Lessons from Charlie Munger. An incredible, wise man who shared these insights generously with the world.
Machine Learning
Economics and AI -- Book Review: Power and Prediction
Book reviews for 1) Power and Prediction and 2) Prediction Machines. The same authors are economists who tell us about how AI may develop.
Management
Rigorous Benchmarking -- Book Review: Lessons from the Titans
Book review of Lessons from the Titans. One of the great insights here is about the importance of rigorous benchmarking and why the best companies do it so well.
Management
Book Review: Scaling People
Claire Hughes Johnson of Stripe and Google gives us a deeply detailed guide to management.