The Best Things I Read In 2020
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- It's Time To Build by Marc Andreessen
- Seven Keys To Switching From A Big Company To A Small One by Micahel Fertik. I just made the switch from Fortune 50 to Series A startup, so very topical.
- The history essay https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/knowing-history-and-knowing-who-we-are/ (Brain Food)
- There Is No Story Without Irony by Shay Allen Hill.
- Tim Ferriss interviews Jerry Seinfeld on creativity and aging. There are so many good anecdotes and insights here. Worth a read and worth a listen.
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming. Dr. Hamming delivers in a here-we-go tone that brings the spirit of a winning football coach to intellectual pursuits.
- Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan. Urban Homesteading, as I call it, seems to be a common reaction to the pandemic. When storms come, squirrels build nests. In uncertain times, humans make nests, even if the nests are mostly symbolic. My garden wouldn’t feed me longer than a few days.