There are a lot of good reasons for Amazon to choose Pittsburgh, Boston, or Austin. But: I. Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post in 2013.…
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There are a lot of good reasons for Amazon to choose Pittsburgh, Boston, or Austin. But: I. Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post in 2013.…
For decades in tech the following was a verity: Small = nimble. Large = vulnerable. So the optimal funding process matched this — get aboard…
On April 10th, 2010 a plane filled with the Polish political elite including then president Lech Kaczyński died in a plane crash on Russian soil, en…
Reading writers on writing when you should be reading or writing…The excuse is you’ll either get practical advice or inspiration. Colum McCann’s Letters to a…
“Hacking” has a special place among the annoying verbs of Silicon Valley. From a lineage as a negative term used to indicate breaking into a…
The perfect is the enemy of the good. Nearly everything professionally successful I’ve done has been of an incremental, consistent nature. Yet for many aims…
Does Trump want a Republican Congress? The likely answer is no. At-risk Congressmen like to pretend the answer is yes. They think they have shared…
Delights Scale by Geoffrey West Anti-Fragile by Nassim Taleb The Pale King by David Foster Wallace Scoop, a Handful of Dust, the Loved One by…
2016 was a good year for the bookshelf and, increasingly, earbud. I still have difficulties with fiction on Audible or Overdrive — sometimes I want to pause or flip back a page or two which isn’t convenient. For self-help books (not covered below), perhaps its even ideal. What non-fiction loses when listened to in note-taking ease it gains in immersion.
Most of my highlights for the year were of slightly older vintage, so these are my personal highlights (and a few lowlights) rather than the best originally published in the year.
The Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante (9/10): My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, The Story of the Lost Child.