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Leave it to Psmith - 10/10 Anna Karenina - 8/10 The Code of the Woosters 8/10 Fooled by Randomness 7/10 Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life 8/10 How to Ge…

I would like to do some volunteer work for approximately two months, starting from the end of December. Can anyone recommend any worthwhile programmes? Ideally teaching, although I…

Why would you recommend See Satan Fall Like Lightening over Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World as a starting place?

I agree. But such access to Silicon Valley luminaries is rare and a seed round from PG and Levchin is going to distort and inflate investment in subsequent rounds. The initial seed…

The unnatural way Homejoy raised their seed rounds, with Cheung basically calling up Levchin and PG [1] was instrumental in setting up a failed business. This gave the startup unde…

For engineers, the last paragraph is the most pertinent: "The key weapon is abstraction," he says. "If you can build abstractions well enough, you should be able to break things do…

Culture is made up of many abstract ideas ranging from values and customs that combine to make an interdependent complex system, prediction is impossible. And as the norms and valu…