Weekly Reading & Selected Links

Hello! Here are some links to things I've been reading or listening to that you might also enjoy:

1. 'How I write', Nassim Taleb's new preface to (the 15th year Italian edition of) The Black Swan.

2. 'So, You Want to Build a House More Efficiently' and 'Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity?', two outstanding blog articles by Austin Vernon.

3. Facebook's Little Red Book.

4. Issue 8 of The Podcast Reader is now available: subscribe or get your copy here.

5. 'The Ends of History', a teaser of Michael Bonner's new book, for Antigone.

6. 'Are ‘Flow of Ideas’ and ‘Research Productivity’ in secular decline?', a Swiss Finance Institute research paper by Peter Cauwels and Didier Sornette.

7. Every Noise at Once—"an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space".

Have a great week,  


Joe