Politics is the division of power, politicking the contest for it.
From Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage
Excellent article.
Author: Dave Paola
Entrepreneur
Weekly Roundup
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!
Weekly Roundup
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!