Bad Blood by John Carreyrou This book tells the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Theranos, the Silicon Valley unicorn that claimed to have technology that could analyze blood samples with just a few drops of blood. It’s written by the Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the original piece exposing them as…
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One of my goals for this year is to read more consistently. It’s really hard because I’m quite busy, and for the last few years reading has been a bit sporadic for me. So far I’ve kept up my goal of one book a month (not much, but I’m a pretty busy guy). So here…
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It’s been a busy year! So much so that I’ve barely even had a weekend to myself to reflect on things. Thankfully, I have a couple of weeks off for the holidays to write this year-in-review. I did this last year and I think it was an extremely useful exercise. Sometimes things move so fast…
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With the way the pace of my life is moving, I feel like I haven’t had much time to reflect on longer term accomplishments and lessons. So I thought doing an annual review is a great chance for me to reflect on the past year and figure out what I’m doing right and what I’m…
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Learning is one of those funny things that we never learn how to do — we just do it. As children, we somehow learn to read, do math, and play sports all without thinking too much about how to learn or what it feels like to learn. Learning is just a natural thing when you’re…