Books Articles Links

Business Sales Marketing

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14148176

• https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Startup-Achieve-Explosive-Customer-ebook/dp/B00TY3ZOMS/
• https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F4DYY1I
• https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FA5TTM
• https://www.amazon.com/Great-Game-Business-Expanded-Updated/dp/0385348339/
• immutable law of marketing
• richest man in babylon
• https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserve/dp/0912986212

Research

• http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/~niessner/thies2016face.html - face replacement
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14182262 - voice replacement

AI

• https://hackernoon.com/a-list-of-artificial-intelligence-tools-you-can-use-today-for-personal-use-1-3-7f1b60b6c94f
• Google IO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2VF8tmLFHw - 01:50:00 - high school student learning from YouTube

Technology

• https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2016/11/02/facial-recognition-still-cant-beat-a-22-cent-pair-of-sunglasses/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14141454#14141993

Not funny but sort of relevant. Here in Ireland we just had an air disaster - an air sea rescue helicopter crashed into an island off the west coast and all aboard were killed. The accident investigation has determined that the island was not registered on the aircraft's mapping system.

• Competitive Programmer's Handbook: https://cses.fi/book.html

Climate change

• Shell about climate change in 1991: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287543
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_controversy
• hottest year on record (2016, 2015, 2014)
• Aral Sea, Lake Chad
• Syria, famine, migration to cities, unemployment, civil warfare, refugees
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-19/was-that-climate-change-too-short-answer-yes
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-19/this-is-what-heat-does-to-us-and-the-economy
• Undergound gas Syberia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13941923

Spirituality

• http://www.abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/index.php
• http://www.bentinhomassaro.com/
• http://www.drunvalo.net/

Microdosing

• Psychedelic Society: https://www.facebook.com/PsychedelicsUK/
• BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39516345
• A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MCQ783Q/
• Tim Ferriss: http://tim.blog/2015/03/21/james-fadiman/
• https://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing
• https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/first-ever-lsd-microdosing-study-will-pit-the-human-brain-against-ai

War on drugs

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

Startups

• What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13426494
• https://medium.com/@sparkszilla/all-the-public-startup-pitch-decks-in-one-place-7d3ddff33bdc#.6sb0dy6na

Hiring recruitment

• https://relocateme.eu/blog/it-talent-support-in-relocation-to-the-uk/

Flow Productivity

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14386394 - How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14656945 - Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?

Butt-in-the-chair hours are super important culturally and it's been that way for a while. Incentives are screwed up enough we're getting questions like this.

Fun

• Buddhist monk vs. hackerspace: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13688004
• What was your best passive income in 2016? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13150785

Being a developer in a large corporation.

• https://www.designernews.co/stories/84443-redditors-design-worst-volume-sliders-possible

MISC Random Rants Uncategorised

• https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-10/performance-reviews-and-bank-historians
• What are some good technology blogs to follow: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13849430
• Developers with kids, how do you skill up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13816627
• Moving from IT to something unrelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14390426
• Successful 1 man businesses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14437921
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