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Recent Books — Least I Can Believe, Wicked + Divine, Super Forecasting

  • Posted on April 24, 2020
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Cleaning up the bookshelf during the pandemic — a little eclectic. What’s the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian by Martin Thielen. I was raised Presbyterian but…

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Recent Books — Planet of Adventure, Econometrics, History of the World in 100 Objects

  • Posted on April 12, 2020
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Cleaning up the bookshelves while we are shut in… Planet of Adventure by Jack Vance. If you like Burrough’s Mars books, then you will like this. I read the Burroughs…

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Recent Books — Range, Lost in Math, Laurus

  • Posted on March 28, 2020
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Range by David Epstein. Strong argument that creativity, invention, excellence are driven by breadth of knowledge, not depth. Important to read, learn, use tools outside your focus area. Lost in…

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Recent Books — Narconomics, Brown Dog, Recursion, Himself

  • Posted on March 4, 2020March 4, 2020
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Narconomics by Tom Wainwright. They may be criminals, but they have all the same economics and behaviours of commercial enterprises. Good insight into why attempting to eradicate narcotics at the…

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Recent Books — Silent Patient, Underground Airlines, Quicksand, Klosterman

  • Posted on February 21, 2020
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The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.  A woman murders her husband and is found insane, and a therapist digs in to get the truth.  Very twisty and fun. Underground Airlines…

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Recent Books — Circe, Another Timeline, Washington Black, Last Good Kiss

  • Posted on February 18, 2020
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Circe by Madeline Miller. Excellent retelling of the story of Circe, making her the central and most human part of so much of Greek myth. Very good. The Future of…

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Recent Books — Starless Sea, El Salvador, Daisy Jones & The Six, Deep State, Sunnyside

  • Posted on February 7, 2020
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The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. I am ambivalent. Certainly the story is creative, and much work was done to plot it out. But I am not really convinced the…

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Recent Books – Red Mountain, Wanderers, Open Borders

  • Posted on January 11, 2020
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Red Mountain by Boo Walker. Outside my normal interest range and for good reason, this is horrible. A Hallmark movie. Cloying, ridiculous. The Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. Post apocalypse, zombies,…

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Recent Books — Noumenon, Stephen King, Reacher, Tropic of Kansas, When Paris Went Dark

  • Posted on January 4, 2020
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Noumenon and Noumenon Infinity by Marina Lostetter. A space exploration trip returns to Earth after centuries away and can barely relate to the evolved human culture. And so on. Fun.…

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Car OEMs are taking Tesla seriously, but not seriously enough

  • Posted on December 1, 2019
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Three articles worth reading: The Tesla Model 3 Invaded My Neighborhood — But It’s Bigger Than That (GM President Mark Reuss Take Note) GM president: Electric cars won’t go mainstream…

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Recent Book — Evicted

  • Posted on November 15, 2019
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Whew what a tough read. We have been so fortunate to always have access to housing and family in…

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Recent Books — Eggshells, Misterioso, Rock and Roll…, Buffalo Soldier, Dorsey, Montaigne

  • Posted on October 27, 2019October 27, 2019
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Eggshells by Caitriona Lally. An odd woman in Dublin tries to connect with the world, or escape the world. Tiring. Misterioso by Arne Dahl.  Another Swedish mystery.  Characters seem very…

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Strategy formulation is not optional

  • Posted on October 7, 2019
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We get to spend two days with strategy consultants this week. I spent the first four years of my career as a strategy consultant and I have some perspective. Strategy…

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Recent Books — Prey of Gods, Long Ships

  • Posted on September 30, 2019October 3, 2019
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The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden. Started out great with some novel characters and South African setting, kind of sputtered out. The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson.  OK…

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Tesla V10 is coming — how will carmakers respond?

  • Posted on September 15, 2019
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Tesla is just kicking ass in car apps — https://electrek.co/2019/09/15/tesla-v10-first-look-release-notes-features/.   They made an investment in a UX and data architecture and it is paying off.  Most carmakers are targeting…

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Recent Books — Golem and the Jinni, Arcadia, Homo Deus

  • Posted on September 2, 2019
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The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. In the late 1800s in NYC, a golem and a jinni struggle to fit into human society and become human themselves. Very…

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Recent Books — So You Want To Talk About Race, Say Nothing

  • Posted on August 18, 2019
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So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. Very helpful coverage of a very tough topic.  Horrific recent news stories about personal attacks on the author. Say Nothing…

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Car software is hard, so why do we do it?

  • Posted on July 30, 2019
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Writing software for cars is hard. Processors are generations behind mobile phones. Compute/network platforms are byzantine and fractured within/across OEMs. OS environments/toolchains are clunky/archaic. Internet connectivity is unavailable, intermittent, and…

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Recent Books — Girl Waits With Gun, How to Hide an Empire, Feeling of What Happens

  • Posted on July 26, 2019
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Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart. Great story based of a budding female detective in the early 1900s. Based on a real person, this is a great retelling. How…

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Recent Books – Thomas Perry, John Scalzi, Disappearing Spoon

  • Posted on July 18, 2019
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The Old Man by Thomas Perry. A lazy suspense novel, unimpressed. The action moves along ok but the characters are tissue thin. And when I see a character arrive in…

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