Highlights from my Reading List – Week 34

Articles

1. Pretending to Care, Pretending to Agree – Venkatesh Rao
   

   Communities, masks and human stress-strain curves.

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2. The Exercise of Authoritah – Venkatesh Rao
   

   Collectors and connectors. 

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3. What We Learned from Hiring at Homebrew – Satya Patel
   

   Satya reflects on the hiring process at Homebrew. 

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4. Ergodicity – via Nassim Taleb
   

   Ergodicity explained using the difference between ensemble and time probability. 

5. The Amazing, Shrinking Org Chart – Venkatesh Rao
   

   Vgr on corporate structures, org charts and how organizations respond to uncertainty. 

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6. The Three-Leaps-of-Faith Rule – Venkatesh Rao
   

   Originally written for PhD students, the three-leaps-of-faith rule has wide applicability in many domains. 

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