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Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track

The Bloomberg-as-social-network analysis is a useful one because without it, it’s hard to see how Bloomberg has survived:

Marc Rubinstein • Disrupting Bloomberg

Billions of data points are available at any given moment and we collect only a small number. With this glimpse through a keyhole, we assemble an interpretation and add another story to our collection.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Big Data, ML, & Software Infrastructure

Sam Blumenthal and • 27 cards

Details 11 building blocks these Polymaths are utilizing - from cloud computing, to sustainability, to social networks.

Vinnie Mirchandani • The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innov…

Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his contacts”

Rob Mancabelli • Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education

Human genome data—at about 2 terabytes per human—is rapidly becoming inexpensive enough ($1,000 per patient within a few years)

Thomas H. Davenport • Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities

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Nathan Borror nathan.run

And they are instantiated as a distributed processing system on human beings. They don’t particularly care about human beings. Their motives are inscrutable, to the extent that they have any, except that they’d like to get bigger. They’ve run on people. They’re implemented on people. But they are not people. They are not persons in any meaningful s