Month: August 2018

Once you start looking for metaphorical cheap shower curtains, they’re everywhere. Highly recommended. Sara Blakely: Start Small, Think Big, Scale Fast Overcoming the plague of perfectionism A lot of people hate open offices. I’m okay with them, FWIW. Start small.

Nobody Cares. How comforting If I were a teacher, I would ban phones in my class Change your food – change your mind – change your life The self-driving future is almost here Has software engineering become more effective? It is hard to tell.

Genetic testing is risky because, in the United States, we can be denied life insurance and disability insurance based on the results of a genetic test. The fact that genetic testing can be used to deny coverage or raise premiums adds an additional layer of complexity to each individual’s decision tree. My hot take? Avoid… Continue reading Genetic testing and YOU

I am a huge fan of Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I think he will go down in history as one of the greatest thinkers of all time. His books will be relevant and important in one hundred years, the true test. Anyway, code is antifragile. Specifically, actively maintained code is antifragile. Code that is used is… Continue reading Code is antifragile

Socratic unruliness Segment handles a lot of data Present information compellingly

I don’t think Mosquito Week would have the same cache as Shark Week but humans are far more likely to die from a tiny mosquito bite than a reenactment of Jaws. Lightning kills about 46 people a year while deer that cause accidents kill another 150 or so. More than 300 people drown in the… Continue reading Ignore the bright and shiny objects

David Einhorn: Hedge fund’s performance ‘far worse than we could have imagined’ Value investors and short sellers don’t seem to understand persuasion. David Einhorn has a big problem. David Einhorn made public bets against Tesla and Elon Musk. Why is it so wrong to bet against Elon Musk? Because Elon Musk is a master persuader.… Continue reading Value investors are missing one key skill

The average holding period for a security on the New York Stock Exchange has fallen from two months in 2008 to just under 20 seconds today/li> Monetize your social media followers in the junk bond market Boom time economics Personality traits to cultivate to maximize your income: high conscientiousness, high extraversion, and low agreeableness. How… Continue reading Assorted Links

Teck Resources (TECK), based in Canada, might be the best resources company in the world. They just had a record-setting quarter, and they are making a ton of money. Here are some unedited snippets from their latest earnings call: Record first half for Teck. Fort Hills oil sands achieved commercial production. we expect to receive… Continue reading Highlights from the Teck Resources Limited Earnings Call Transcript

Marshaling and serialization are loosely synonymous in the context of remote procedure call, but semantically different as a matter of intent. In particular, marshaling is about getting parameters from here to there, while serialization is about copying structured data to or from a primitive form such as a byte stream. In this sense, serialization is… Continue reading What is the difference between marshaling and serialization?