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Naming Things Good

A colleague reminded me of this corny computer science joke a couple months back: There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. Though there are some who dispute...

Review: The Victory Machine

Apparently I have more confidence in your abilities than you do. - Bill Parcells, NFL coach, trying to motivate an underperforming player without insult I’ve always held admiration for professional sports, in its lessons...

Review: Always Day One

Did you know that there's an internal tools team within Apple that's staffed by contractors looking primarily to stay employed? Can you find a way to tie that to Amazon'...

Review: Art of the Good Life

Early on, it wasn't clear that Art of the Good Life was going to be much different than countless other self-help books that promise the nirvana of disproportionate self-driven improvement that eventually leads...

Review: Exhalation

Exhalation is the latest collection of short stories from science fiction writer Ted Chiang. As with his previous book, Stories of Your Life and Others , the set of stories is collected and curated across a...