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This is a book of brilliant insights separated by hundreds of pages of tangents. It touches on a ridiculous number of topics:

A wonderful read that gives a peek into the way people think and make decisions. The book describes the two ways the mind can work:

It seems like everyone is trying to learn to code: Code.org has celebrities like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Chris Bosh telling you anyone can code; CoderD...

Hey, grab a seat—we need to talk about documentation. Now, I know what you're thinking: documentation is tedious, a chore, an afterthought, a redu...

Bitcoin is the first purely digital, decentralized money. It has been on my mind a lot lately and apparently, I'm not the only one. Paul Graham called it a ...

If you’ve found that your download speed is great, but your upload speed is abysmal, I’ve got a possible solution for you. I struggled with this issue for a whi...

Update #1: this post hit the front page of r/programming and HN. Thank you for the great feedback! I’ve added some corrections below.

In 2009, I joined LinkedIn as a Software Engineer. 5 years, 25 t-shirts, 50 hackdays, 4000 employees, several hundred million members, a billion dollars in reve...

The good

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