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Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future

Zero to One sat on my reading last all through last year. I went back and forth with reading it because I had heard so many mixed reviews on the book. I wanted to get it knocked out this year [...]

Unable to connect to WiFi in Linux

I was on the verge of giving up on going back to Linux because of wifi issues. Things would be working fine, then after a while, I just couldn't connect to wireless networks anymore. At one point I couldn't connect [...]

The Divine Comedy

I am a glutton for punishment. I had originally set out to read Dante's Inferno as it's on my list of books I never read in high school. Since I was able to pick up a free copy of the [...]

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

Rise of the Rocket Girls as the name suggests, is about the women (and some men) that worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The story chronicles the JPL from the 1940s all the way up to more modern times. I [...]

My Kombucha Smells Like Nail Polish Remover

I've been keeping a batch of the booch on the counter for quite a while now. My first SCOBY was gifted to me by one of the wife's friends and my SCOBYs rode first class in the front seat when [...]

The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

Have been asking around recently for books on personal finance. It's a subject I'm not terrible with, but also a subject I don't learn more about year over year. I'm sure you're thinking, "damn, Josh must be in debt". Not [...]

The Final Redesign

You read that headline correctly. What you're looking at right now is the final redesign for my blog. Nothing could be better than this. Okay, you got me. I know that there are better designs out there. Freezing my blog's [...]

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition

Sometimes it's great to read books when they come out, sometimes it's better to wait. Having not read Small Giants before, I'm glad I waited until now to get to it as the 10th anniversary edition packs in a lot [...]

The Great Gatsby

Not too long ago, I read on Reddit of all places a post by somebody that had read The Great Gatsby for the first time. Their story was not unlike my own. A bit older, not much of a reader [...]

Reading Calculator

I recently had a conversation with somebody (a few people actually) about how much time I have to put in to read as much as I do. The short answer is, a lot. The longer answer is that it really [...]