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Books I want to read in April 2019 - update
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou Pretty great story about how a sociopath builds a biotech business, with the aid of her reality distortion field and buckets loads of cash dupes a lot of VCs and old retail giants in the process. Siemens did pretty well out of it though, Theranos was one of their biggest customers building an illusion on top of Siemens technology. Was a great read, the story is still on going with court cases and movies coming out. This yarn isn’t over by a long stretch.
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It's all about the data, stupid.
Knowing your task and knowing your data
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Joe Armstrong, RIP
Joseph Armstrong passed away yesterday. A computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems, the father of Erlang. RIP.
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Investor status, Unlocked!
For the past number of years I’ve been based with my wife in Kathmandu, Nepal. We relocated here soon after the earthquake, uprooting our lives in Sydney to return to my wifes country, a place she hadn’t lived in for over 20 years.
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Books I want to read in April 2019
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou By 2013, Theranos was valued at nearly $10 billion and even partnered with Walgreens to put their blood tests in stores around the country. The problem? Their technology never worked.