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Re: Best book/paper you read in 2018?

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Post by thenaturalist »

bsvalley wrote: post #20

The best book hands down in 2018 is "Bad Blood". Especially if you're into tech and entrepreneurship. It highlights exactly how crazy the system is in Silicon Valley. and how VC's eat their own dog food. This is something that people like Chamath Palihapitiya and Alexis Ohanian are currently trying to finger point. Silicon Valley is broken and this book is the perfect illustration of the reasons why. https://amzn.to/…

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Re: Best book/paper you read in 2018?

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thenaturalist wrote: post #21
bsvalley wrote: post #20

The best book hands down in 2018 is "Bad Blood". Especially if you're into tech and entrepreneurship. It highlights exactly how crazy the system is in Silicon Valley. and how VC's eat their own dog food. This is something that people like Chamath Palihapitiya and Alexis Ohanian are currently trying to finger point. Silicon Valley is broken and this book is the perfect illustration of the reasons why. https://amzn.to/…

This is an affiliate link and the author of this comment will earn kickbacks on your purchase(s).

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Re: Best book/paper you read in 2018?

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thenaturalist wrote: post #21
bsvalley wrote: post #20

The best book hands down in 2018 is "Bad Blood". Especially if you're into tech and entrepreneurship. It highlights exactly how crazy the system is in Silicon Valley. and how VC's eat their own dog food. This is something that people like Chamath Palihapitiya and Alexis Ohanian are currently trying to finger point. Silicon Valley is broken and this book is the perfect illustration of the reasons why. https://amzn.to/…

This is an affiliate link and the author of this comment will earn kickbacks on your purchase(s).

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Re: Best book/paper you read in 2018?

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thenaturalist wrote: post #21
bsvalley wrote: post #20

The best book hands down in 2018 is "Bad Blood". Especially if you're into tech and entrepreneurship. It highlights exactly how crazy the system is in Silicon Valley. and how VC's eat their own dog food. This is something that people like Chamath Palihapitiya and Alexis Ohanian are currently trying to finger point. Silicon Valley is broken and this book is the perfect illustration of the reasons why. https://amzn.to/…

This is an affiliate link and the author of this comment will earn kickbacks on your purchase(s).

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Re: Best book/paper you read in 2018?

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Post by cofounderYC17 »

thenaturalist wrote: post #21
bsvalley wrote: post #20

The best book hands down in 2018 is "Bad Blood". Especially if you're into tech and entrepreneurship. It highlights exactly how crazy the system is in Silicon Valley. and how VC's eat their own dog food. This is something that people like Chamath Palihapitiya and Alexis Ohanian are currently trying to finger point. Silicon Valley is broken and this book is the perfect illustration of the reasons why. https://amzn.to/…

This is an affiliate link and the author of this comment will earn kickbacks on your purchase(s).

Echo chamber?

Re: Best book/paper you read in 2018?

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Post by yesenadam »

thenaturalist wrote: post #21
bsvalley wrote: post #20

The best book hands down in 2018 is "Bad Blood". Especially if you're into tech and entrepreneurship. It highlights exactly how crazy the system is in Silicon Valley. and how VC's eat their own dog food. This is something that people like Chamath Palihapitiya and Alexis Ohanian are currently trying to finger point. Silicon Valley is broken and this book is the perfect illustration of the reasons why. https://amzn.to/…

This is an affiliate link and the author of this comment will earn kickbacks on your purchase(s).

Ok, I wasn't going to comment, but since there are now further comments about this, I will. I was watching just now while bsvalley posted a long ranty paragraph in response to thenaturalist[0], about "I don't know why people don't understand affiliate marketing, it costs the customer nothing", then deleted it after a few minutes because it was being downvoted, then edited their original comment to say "(Affiliate link)" and added a childish one saying "I already wrote it was an affiliate! Didn't you see that! Dah!" or something.. then also deleted that because of downvotes (I was impressed by how fast this downvoting was occurring!) and edited their comment again to childishly mimic thenaturalist's comment, again without mentioning that it was an edit.

I'm grateful to thenaturalist, I didn't realize it was an affiliate link, they do seem like ads, or at least cast doubts on the motives of people posting them.

[0] which I flagged, as seemed appropriate.

Re: Best book/paper you read in 2018?

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Post by thenaturalist »

cofounderYC17 wrote: post #25
thenaturalist wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Echo chamber?

Edit to original post reflecting that its an affiliate link was made after my comment, hemce it looks like echo, but isn’t.

Re: Best book/paper you read in 2018?

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Post by 21dayhero »

Atomic Habits by James Clear.

I work on a habit building platform so read almost all books and papers on habit building and behavioral science. This recent book by James Clear has summarized the key points of what's known about building and replacing habits. It's easy to read and most importantly - practical.

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