Eclipse 2K17!
- NYTimes Live Stream & Recap
- National Geographic Photos
- Smarter Every Day International Space Station Transit
- Casey Neistat Eclipse from Five Angles
- Excited Guy from 2016 Eclipse
Tech & Programming
- Scaling Instagram Infrastructure -InfoQ YouTube
- Smart Pointers Part 1 and 2 – Fluent CPP
Books & Reading
Disney’s Choice
Vertical companies like Apple achieve profits by selling differentiated goods at high margins. Horizontal companies like Google, on the other hand, achieve profits through scale, which by extension means being free (or as low cost as possible) is more important than being the “best”; the brilliance of Google’s model, of course, is that having more users, and thus more data, means it is the best as well.
Epic of Gilgamesh
This story is over 4000 years old but was only discovered in 1853. Time deteriorated the tablets and filtered the text to what we have today. The story is about King Gilgamesh of Uruk and his quest to beat death, but what amazed me was the insight it gave to the scale of humanity at the time the story was written (my thoughts were influenced from just reading Sapiens). If all stories were kept on multiple tablets of similar size, where are all the others? What happened in the 4000 years that we never decided to make another copy? Today, it seems the internet will preserve all we create for the foreseeable future, so Gilgamesh will live on.
Everything Else
- Hip strengthening exercises to build leg stability and prevent runners knee
CinemaSins
CinemaSins is great for screening movies of questionable quality without investing the entire 2 hours on a rotten tomato (but the Kong director doesn’t think so). For example, Power Rangers. Now I know I only need to watch the end to see Megazord. Granted this is not a replacement for watching the movie, just a way to rearrange your list of what to watch next. Still, such nostalgia.
Don’t forget the second step
Showing up and doing it again and again until you’re good at it, and until it’s part of who you are and what you do.
Gothic Basin
A preview of what’s to come…
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