My Week in Review (2017-07-23)

What Happened?

• Back in San Francisco for 3 weeks
• Visited VR World

Internet

• Useful
  • Developing Leadership Skills
  • What a study into Wikipedia’s norms can teach us about creating non-hierarchical social structures
  • The company isn’t a family
  • Productivity advice for the weird
• Video
  • Live Office Hours with Kevin Hale and Dalton Caldwell
• Interesting
  • How to start a sidehustle
  • The 5 Productive Morning Routines Of Highly Effective People
  • How the Idea of a ‘Normal’ Person Got Invented
  • Do Asian Lives Matter? Contemplating Disparate Coverage of Charleena Lyles’s and Tommy Le’s Deaths
  • The Ultimate Guide to Habits – Peak Performance Made Easy
  • This image is why self-driving cars need many types of sensors
  • Hacking a Segway
  • How do you become a leader without explicit authority?
  • Tech has a Toxic Tone Problem — Let’s Fix It!
• Opinion
  • Love the One You’re With
  • The Japanese First Lady might have pretended not to speak English for two hours to avoid chatting with Trump
  • Seth's Blog: All deals are handshake deals
  • Seth's Blog: How much does a ton weigh?
  • Seth's Blog: Toward dumber
  • Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS
  • Daring Fireball: Samsung Describes Its Male and Female Bixby Assistants With Sexist Descriptions
  • Daring Fireball: Garry Kasparov on Trump and Putin
  • Daring Fireball: Transmit 5
  • Daring Fireball: Only 45 Percent of Trump Voters Believe Don Jr. Met With the Russians, After Junior Admitted It
• News
  • Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year
• Software
  • Making Money
  • Let’s Build the Tiniest Blockchain
  • So, you decided to contribute to open source
  • Do we need specialized graph databases? Benchmarking real-time social networking applications
  • Teaser -- Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio
  • You probably shouldn’t use DynamoDB
  • Getting Started with Event Sourcing in Postgres
  • Postgres Randomized Primary Keys
  • How Google Wants To Rewire The Internet

Reading

• Earth Unaware
• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
• Algorithms to Live By (audiobook)