Links of the month

January 2020

Book Recommendations:

1. Alchemy: Or, the Art and Science of Conceiving Effective Ideas That Logical People Will Hate

2. A Mind at Play: The Brilliant Life of Claude Shannon, Inventor of the Information Age

10 Interesting Articles/Research Notes:

1. After selling for $580M, here’s what I learned about SaaS During my time at Buildium

2. Can TikTok Stay Weird?

3. Adversarial Interoperability

4. Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours

5. Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine

6. If Everyone Hates Spirit Airlines, How Is It Making So Much Money?

7. Why the Most Important Idea in Behavioral Decision-Making Is a Fallacy

8. Culture Eats Strategy: Nucor’s Ken Iverson on Building a Different Kind of Company

9. What polarization data from 9 countries reveals about the US

10. Global Private Equity 2019 Report

10 Videos:

Avery Segal @avesegal

In 2019, I spent a lot of time on Douyin (domestic Chinese TikTok). Along the way, I laughed at a lot of funny videos, some of which didn’t make it to the west. Here are my top 10 of 2019👇

10 Graphics:

1. Low wage workers in the United States

2. Republican party vs. other right-wing parties in the West

3. China vs. the US (2000 vs. 2018)

4. Automation (the jobs at risk)

5. Market vs. the Fed

   

   6. “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce”

      

   7. How public companies use FCF?

      

   8. International migrant population as % of total

      

   9. Surgery: day of week vs. mortality rate (Surgeries done on a Friday had a 44% higher death rate, and on a weekend, 82% higher, compared to Monday)

      

   10. Percentage of children in single-parent households:

       

       Honorable mention: