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Okay, this is embarrassing but I feel the need to contribute as a catharsis. LEISURE TIME 1. WSJ: the OpEd section is neocon trash, but the journalistic conte
by ttul 4y ago
Okay, this is embarrassing but I feel the need to contribute as a catharsis.
LEISURE TIME
1. WSJ: the OpEd section is neocon trash, but the journalistic content is well sourced, objective, and interesting.
2. NYTimes: probably the highest quality journalism in the English-speaking world.
3. Economist: slower news cycle, more deeply analytical and intellectual than WSJ or NYT.
4. Bloomberg: nice in-depth stories about things WSJ would not put on their front page. Good data journalism.
5. YouTube: Lex Fridman interviews, machine learning channels, Minecraft hardcore play throughs, and whatever else the algorithm brings me.
6. Podcasts: Economist Intelligence, CBC The World At Six, PBS News Hour, Bloomberg Odd Lots, NYT The Daily, This Week in Virology, Practical AI, Last Week in AI (this is new to me and good)
WORK
1. Slack: managing my team and also connecting with a couple of industry groups.
2. Email: it pours in all day. I have a lot of Gmail filters and some custom scripting to automate things.
3. I’m working on automating every manual process in my job as CEO, even though it’s painful. The investment will be worthwhile.
- _boffin_ 4y agoWhat processes are you automating?
- bilekas 4y ago> I’m working on automating every manual process in my job as CEO, even though it’s painful. The investment will be worthwhile. Not to be funny but aren't you supposed to delegate what you don't need to be spending time doing as CEO?
- ttul 4y agoYeah that’s the classic assumption but the reality is Human Resources are expensive and as a tech CEO you really can automate a lot of stuff that perhaps a non-tech CEO would have to delegate to a person. It’s a hidden advantage (curse?) I suppose.
- bunabhucan 4y ago>OpEd section Chomsky was asked about what to read and mentioned the financial papers as a great source of foreign news because you can't succeed in business with a fake version of reality. He called out the WSJ by name but said the opinion section was "the funnies."
- spronket_news 4y agowww.spronket.com/sharedConfig?shared-config=29270980 heh heh heh (I added most of these into a feed reader and it works pretty well, although it didn't have time to grab all the podcasts)