Paul Graham leads the day with hist post about writing like you talk. Paul doesn’t write too frequently, but when he does, you should probably listen. Gil Zilberfeld talks about how you can’t build an MVP if you are expecting it to make money. It is an interesting perspective on a hot current trend. On… Read More Geek Reading October 27, 2015
Leading today, we have The Verge reporting on the FCC publicly shaming robocallers and telemarketers. For personal things, I am not a fan of public shaming. However, when it comes to fairly seedy business practices, I am a big fan, especially in this case. Mozilla announces their open source support program. This is just a… Read More Geek Reading October 26, 2015
Seth Godin starts our day with another excellent post about the two-review technique. Basically, what would a 5-star review look like and what would a 1-start review look like. Which side are you optimizing for? On Point Nine Land, they have an interesting article about benchmarking your churn rates. Anyone with members/users needs to focus… Read More Geek Reading October 23, 2015
Amazon AWS continued the love fest and announced even more fun stuff! First, we have the AWS Mobile Hub that will help developers build, test and monitor mobile applications. The EC2 Container Service received an update with a container registry, CLI and more. CloudWatch Dashboards now allows you to have customized metrics views. Amazon IoT… Read More Geek Reading October 9, 2015
The Geekess leads the day again, but this time it is a very positive post about what makes a good community. More than anything, I think the post was only written because of the much larger number of positive comments on her last post. On Rants on Machine Learning, they show us what to do… Read More Geek Reading October 7, 2015
Krebs on Security starts our week with two security breaches. First, 15 million consumers could be affected by the Experian data breach, which is also reported by TechCrunch who talks about the T-Mobile data inclusion in the breach. The second breach is at Scottrade, which affects 4.6 million consumers. Clearly, the Experian breach is something… Read More Geek Reading October 5, 2015
Google leads the day with their announcement of the Chromecast 2 and Chromecast Audio, as reported by TechCrunch. I love my Chromecast, and it is possible that I will now be getting another one. Michael Erasmus talks about TF-IDF in his 10 minute tutorial. For anyone implementing search strategies on some collection of documents, this… Read More Geek Reading October 1, 2015
Reuters leads our day with an interesting story about a Tanzanian engineer who invented a low-cost water filter. For many countries, this could be a huge development. On Both Sides of the Table, Mark Suster gives us two interesting posts. First, he talks about high conviction when dealing with VC decisions, not worrying about consensus… Read More Geek Reading September 29, 2015
Leading the day, we have TechCrunch reporting on layoffs at Groupon. They are dropping 1100 employees and closing operations in 7 countries. This could be a signal that the deal companies could be in trouble. Johanna Rothman continues her series on resource efficiency and flow efficiency. Sam Altman gives us an excellent post on unit… Read More Geek Reading September 23, 2015
Krebs on Security leads the day again with the continuing saga about the skimmers in Mexico. This is really a fascinating story and shows the potential that the skimmer businesses have. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about continuous improvement through experiments. It is an interesting way to think about improvement given our productivity focused… Read More Geek Reading September 18, 2015
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