Random Talkers E17: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
For this week's show we're discussing 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things' by Ben Horowitz, a book on what to do when everything is going wrong.
Read MoreFor this week's show we're discussing 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things' by Ben Horowitz, a book on what to do when everything is going wrong.
Read MoreIn this week's episode Matt and I are talking about different forms of intelligence, from potential extra-terrestrial visitors to the underrated octopus.
Read MoreWe start by reviewing Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's "Delivering Happiness", then boost our YouTube view count with a Bitcoin segment!
Read MoreRandom Talkers is the show where two data scientists (aka myself and Matt McKim) review tech books and analyze breaking news. New clips uploaded bi-weekly. Available in podcast form via iTunes or SoundCloud. Help Google's algorithms view us in a favorable light by subscribing on YouTube!
This book has a neat origin story: when Thiel taught a class on startups at Stanford in 2012, Blake Masters, a student, took detailed notes and posted them online. When the notes went viral, Masters worked with Thiel to craft them into an entire book! The finished project is an interesting mix of down-to-earth startup advice and grandiose visions for the future.
We analyze FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s recent proposals to rollback net neutrality regulations. It’s a contentious segment! One of us thinks opposition concerns are overblown, while the other sees net neutrality as vital to the future of the internet. For unknown reasons we decided to end this episode with debate style closing statements...
Latest project: a Shiny app to test your stock trend knowledge! The app is hosted using RStudio's shinyapps.io. Try rendering here if you encounter any display issues (unfortunately somewhat likely on mobile). Daily stock closing prices were pulled via the Quandl API. Full source code is available on Github.
Update: now also hosted on AWS.