Michael Lewis’s fascinating page-turner, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine takes us through the Subprime mortgage market through the eyes of the cast of characters who not only saw the coming crisis but bet heavily on the catastrophe, and won big. What’s interesting about the cast of characters is their contrarian view on the [...]
Scott Locklin: The economist; staffed by statistical buffoons? Joel Spolsky: Building Communities with Software Xan Brooks’s excellent running commentary starts at 4.05 pm on the epic John Isner and Nicolas Mahut match Joel Reymont: Ask’s HN: How do I turn 100K into 1 million? Dan Crow: Google Squared – Web scale, open domain information extraction [...]
Keith Rabois: The State of Angel Investing & What Startups Can Learn From It Chris Dixon: On Startups & Why the VC Model Is Broken David Cohen: You have acquisition interest – now what? Wolfire Blog: Thoughts on OnLive Sebastian Deterding: Why Games Are Fun: The Psychology Explanation
YC Founders at Work Interview: Posterous SeaMicro’s interesting new product for the server industry Thomas Korte: 16 Tips for Founders @ YC Demo Day Dan Ariely: The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People YC: Need to process payments?
Richard Dawkins interviews Steven Pinker for “The Genius of Charles Darwin” – fascinating video conversation Vision Quest: A half century of artificial-sight research has succeeded. And now this blind man can see Paul Graham interview by a 7th Grader Loading screens: PrettyLoaded You’re Doing It Wrong: CS in the real world
Interesting presentations from UX London 2010. all pdf links Leah Buley: Good Design Faster Peter Morville: Information Architecture with Maps Joshua Porter: Metrics-Driven Design Stephen P. Anderson: How To Think With Pretty Pictures (Demystifying Concept Models)
Kayak: Where can I fly for how much? (awesome tool) Founder Dialogues: Tim Healy, co-founder and CEO of EnerNOC Gabriel Weinberg on Mixergy: How The Founder Of Duck Duck Go Previously Bootstrapped A $10 Mil Company Chris Dixon’s blog content page. Many gems in there.
Tony Hsieh: Why I Sold Zappos Gabriel Weinberg: Paths to $5M for a startup founder Steve Blank: When Big Companies Are Dead But Don’t Know It. As a side note, I asked Ben Horowitz on How he arrived at the decision to sell the Loudcloud business to EDS and become Opsware the software company? The [...]
Set during the NBA 2005-06 season, ace sportswriter, Jack McCallum spends time with the Phoenix Suns as an “Assistant Coach” and covers the inner-workings of an NBA team. The book stems from an article Jack wrote during the pre-season which turned out to be quite popular. The name of the book refers to Coach Mike [...]
Jawed Karim: YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth (video) Brian Halligan: Sales Management, Strategy, & Transformation (pdf) How butterfly wings can stop counterfeit currency Visual Website Optimizer: A/B Testing + Clickmaps = Awesomeness