Five Links for November

Every month I try to share the most mind-expanding links to read/watch/listen. If you find these interesting, please do share with your friends.

Here are five links worth reading…

Every month I try to share the most mind-expanding links to read/watch/listen. If you find these interesting, please do share.

Here are five links worth reading…

Jane Street and the Arbitrage Royal Family by Hide Not Slide

The Ocaml advantage: How Jane Street leaned on an obscure coding language to hire better programmers and climb to the top of the prop trading food chain. 

Listen: Packy McCormick: Web3 & Smart Optimism (World of DaaS Podcast)

A fascinating conversation with a true optimistic thinker about the future of tech in the next five years, and the next 50 years. Packy thinks deeply about the root forces driving innovation and progress. 

Should America Go All In On Ukraine? by David Sacks

Sacks is one of the most lucid foreign-policy thinkers. Here he reviews the nuclear threat from a risk analysis perspective. 

Breaking: Elon Musk is Not Stupid by Sven Schnieders

Decoding what looks like bad decision making and finding simplicity on the other side of complexity— or, the metrics that really matter in evaluating early-stage companies.

San Francisco: The Reckoning is Here by Peter Yared

There’s been lots written about the decline of San Francisco and what it means for tech and the country as a whole. This is an honest, straightforward look at what went wrong driven by data (not partisan buzzwords). Essential reading for anyone who cares about American cities.  

Bonus (Humor): I Work from Home by Colin Nissan.

The funniest thing I have read all year.  

HT: Eugene Chong

Bonus (Framework): From Nostradamus to Fukuyama by Scott Alexander

Predictions are one of the biggest drivers of “discourse.” A useful spectrum for thinking about predictions, and whose predictions are doomed to misinterpretation.  

More reading links at https://twitter.com/AurenReads 

Books:

The Strategy of Denial – Elbridge Colby

HT: Michael Kratsios

Leadership and Self-Deception – The Arbinger Institute

HT: Jay Friedman

The Kill Chain – Christian Brose

HT: Dave Fitzgerald

The Key Man – Simon Clark & Will Louch

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