Author: Dave Paola

My favorite links this week:

• Great examples of software (semi) rewrites that have actually worked
• A 14 year old built his own nuclear fusion reactor
• Liu Cixin on American vs. Chinese Sci-fi
• Laws and Sausages: Immigration
• Open Letter from New York State Budget Director Regarding Amazon
• How one man ditched his phone and unbroke his brain
• Super cool: a daily weather report from Mars
• Apparently North Korea is changing

Have a great week!

My favorite links this week:

• An excellent post on how Eden has pivoted several times
• Watch a zygote become a tadpole in 6 minutes
• Have empathy. Startups are hard.
• How should we think about, and talk about, wealth?
• James Hamilton (of AWS): Collision at Sea: USS Fitzgerald
• A harmful fallacy: affirming the consequent
• HBR: The Founder’s Dilemma
• Top people lessons from Auren Hoffman
• Schools are child jails (I couldn’t agree more)
• Theory of Constraints (Wikipedia)
• Facebook Has a Right to Block ‘Hate Speech’—But Here’s Why It Shouldn’t
• The Twitter Takeover of Politics Is Just Getting Started — my favorite quote: “Social media is allowing individual politicians to further their own careers at the expense of their party’s reputation. The result is that U.S. politics is quickly changing into a parade of celebrities.” (and, as if on command, this happened)
• Why tech companies hire so many economists

Have a great weekend!