THE WAY WE BECOME | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·22 Feb 2021
by Amber Smith ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A gut-wrenching read about the stark and horrific realities of surviving in the aftermath of violent crime.
THE TRUTH ABOUT MAURA | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Finalists About the Kirkus Prize·22 Feb 2021
by Melinda Di Lorenzo ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 18, 2026 A thoughtful, skillfully presented treatment of a timely topic. A teen deals with the fallout when her abortion becomes public knowledge.
The Strength of Being Misunderstood
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman·1 Dec 2020
A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question.
5 Things Keeping You From a Life of Financial Independence
Wise Breadby Toni Husbands·10 Oct 2020
Financial independence can mean different things to everyone. A 2013 survey from Capital One 360 found that 44 percent of American adults feel that financial independence means not having any debt...
HOW TO MAKE A FRIEND | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·30 Aug 2020
by Radha Agrawal ‧ RELEASE DATE: today Lots of food for thought and inspiration for action. Beyond How To Win Friends and Influence People.
Thread: Differentiable Self-organizing Systems
Distillby Alexander Mordvintsev; Ettore Randazzo; Eyvind Niklasson; Michael Levin; Sam Greydanus·27 Aug 2020
How can we construct robust, general-purpose self-organising systems? Self-organisation is omnipresent on all scales of biological life.
SMASHED POTATOES — Sprouted Kitchen
Sprouted Kitchenby Sara Forte·6 Jul 2020
There is more to say on this subject, and this will be clunky and too much and not enough but I need to start somewhere, even just for me.
Researchers and Founders
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman·19 Jun 2020
I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always individual exceptions, on average it’s surprising to me how different the best people in these...
Three Questions that Keep Me Up at Night
Eric Jangby noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)·2 Apr 2020
Q1: Can we imitate "thinking" from only observing behavior? Suppose you have a large fleet of autonomous vehicles with human operators driving them around diverse road conditions.
The Moment You Realize You Aren't Comfortable With What You Wrote
Blog on Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·11 Dec 2018
I just spent the last 30 minutes writing a blog post around a simple phrase that I like. I built out my thought process around it, used a handful of examples, and then filled in some additional...
WHAT TIME HAS KEPT | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·3 Nov 2018
by Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A suspenseful and thought-provoking work of historical fiction.
ABC JEWISH HEROES AND ME | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·29 Jul 2018
by Deborah Bodin Cohen & Kerry Olitzky ; illustrated by Jeanine Murch ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An invitation to make the world a better place by emulating these inspiring role models.
US Digital Currency
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman·10 May 2018
I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far).
THE LAST PLACE IN EUROPE | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·3 Apr 2018
by Geoffrey Plank ‧ RELEASE DATE: today Gibraltar emerges as a geographically small but significant player in global affairs. Assaying the turbulent history and uncertain future of Gibraltar.
REGINA | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·3 Apr 2018
by Kate Williams ‧ RELEASE DATE: today Deep research uncovers disturbing portrayals of female rulers. Stories of female royals who were ignored, slandered, and even executed.
SIGNALS ACROSS VAST DISTANCES | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·19 Feb 2018
by Elizabeth Alexander ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A timely meditation on poetry and connectedness, modeling ways of resisting racism and authoritarianism.
E Pur Si Muove
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman·14 Dec 2017
Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me. I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco.
How good are decisions? Evaluating decision quality in domains where evaluation is easy
Dan Luu·21 Nov 2017
A statement I commonly hear in tech-utopian circles is that some seeming inefficiency can’t actually be inefficient because the market is efficient and inefficiencies will quickly be eliminated.
Back From My Blogging Break
Blog on Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·15 Aug 2017
I took the last two weeks off from blogging. It was a nice vacation. While I try to blog every day, I don’t have a daily ritual like Fred Wilson does.
A KNOT OF FROGS, A PASSEL OF HOGS | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·19 Mar 2017
by Claire Annette Noland ; illustrated by Susie Oh ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A fetching invitation to learn while moving alongside some young wrigglers.
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