Matt Brezina: Freemium ain’t new. It is just a new word Gabriel Weinberg: Duck Duck Go reddit ad by the numbers. Comments on Hacker News here. Jia Shen: Design Learnings from Viral Applications Gabriel Weinberg interviews Satish Dharmaraj on Getting Traction
On Bots: A Large Scale Experiment on Search Engine Behavior Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard Dan Ariely: Emotional influences Jonah Lehrer: Childish Creativity
Yishan Wong on Engineering Management: Hiring, Process, Promotions, Tools & Technical Leaders Slava Akhmechet: Building a world-class team: six mistakes I made early in my career Ben Horowitz: Product Market Fit Myths Patrick McKenzie: Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week, comments on HN Imran on Tech: Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who [...]
Ben Horowitz: The Case for the Fat Start-Up José Miguel Guzmán: Google’s Peering Policy (pdf) ITA Software’s Needlebase, can’t wait to try it. Daniel Hillis: Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine Justin Sheehy & Steve Vinoski: Developing RESTful Web Services with Webmachine (pdf)
Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis Charles Davi: What Critics Don’t Get About Credit Default Swaps Jonah Lehrer: Online Status Anxiety David Skok: Customer Acquisition & Monetization Justin.tv’s Live Video Broadcasting Architecture
Video edition. Dr. Atul Gawande: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Interesting startup, OnLive. Steve Perlman, talks about the technology & gives a demo (vid) Gabriel Weinberg interviews Justin Kan of Justin.tv on getting traction Jessica Livingston interviews the founders of AirBnB & Weebly
Maciej Cegłowski: Scott and Scurvy Time Bandits: What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? The Panic Status Board Ryan Dahl: Node.js – slides from jsconf (pdf) Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig & Fernando Pereira: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data (pdf)
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines by Luiz André Barroso and Urs Hölzle of Google introduces the notion of WSC’s (warehouse-scale computers); an Internet service that spans thousands of computing nodes and the associated hardware that goes along with it as a single computing unit. The book goes [...]
Financial Edition. Bill Gross: How a global debt crisis trickles down to investors Stanford Law: Q & A with Charlie Munger (pdf) Farnam Street: The forgotten lessons of 2008 Interesting Interview with Jim Rickards, former general counsel of LTCM
Video edition. reddit.com Interviews Peter Norvig Anand Rajaraman: What lies beneath: harnessing the deep web Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory Gabriel Weinberg interviews Garry Tan of Posterous
Weaponizing Mozart: How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control Pete Michaud: Achievement Porn Patrick McKenzie: Lesson from Madlibs Signup Fad: Do Your Own Tests The Diamond Formation: Making sure your side wins the sound-byte battle An Excerpt on Dr. Michael Burry from Michael Lewis’s new book: Betting on the Blind [...]