My favorite links from this week:
- “Our results reveal that biographies remain in our communicative memory the longest (20–30 years) and music the shortest (about 5.6 years).“
- An excellent business case for adopting serverless architecture
- There’s a petrified jeffrey pine tree forest at the bottom of fallen leaf lake
- Remastered film footage of 1890s Paris
- We, the Unoffended
- Ten Years worth of Learnings about Pricing by Tom Tunguz
- Why Bay Area Residents are Flocking to Tahoe
- Excellent argument: The Return of Paganism
- Raise your hand if you’re surprised that Jimmy Yang used to be a DJ at a strip club
- The situation in Iraq post-ISIS is really, really not great
- On Finally Understanding The Matrix Sequels (15m)
- When engineers and physicists get drunk together
- A great post on How Hiring Entrepreneurs Enabled Airbnb’s Success
- 20 years of data with 10 conclusions (My personal favorite: Startups are more fun)
- The extreme importance of having the courage to be direct
Have a great weekend!
