Blog, Page 96

The hallmark of good science is that it provides you a model with strong predictive and explanatory power. What matters is not if the model is actually correct (a...

An important read, if for no other reason than the fact that it thoroughly debunks the idea that great ideas come from lone inventors having flash-of-insight-eure...

I listened to the audiobook version of this book, and it felt just like watching (err, hearing) the next chapter in the Star Wars universe. All the characters you...

The good

A wonderful exploration of the role of intelligence in society and whether ignorance really is bliss. It’s easy to guess the basic plot arc from get-go, and some ...

This book contains a wonderful discussion of creativity, coming up with ideas, and doing great work… Wrapped in the dull language and style of a book on managemen...

This is an amazing branding and marketing piece for Google. It’s also, for the most part, an interesting read that’s worthwhile for anyone in the DevOps space. T...

With this second book of the series, The Kingkiller Chronicle starts to hit its stride. The characters are more interesting, the writing is better, the jokes are ...

(I did not write up a text review or notes on this book).

An Infrastructure Package is a reusable, battle-tested, documented, configurable, best-practices definition of a piece of infrastructure. We think it’s a better w...