Conor Dewey

💡 Where Good Ideas Come From in 5 Minutes

What kind of environments breed innovation? What sparks a flash of brilliance? Steven Johnson tackles these questions in Where Good Ideas Come From by finding common patterns among notable inventions...

🤔 The Nassim Taleb Starter Pack

I've always had fun learning new ways of thinking, especially when the ideas turn out to be practical. Luckily, Nassim Taleb has produced a gold mine of meaningful ways of thinking...

💣 Barrels and Ammunition

Last week, I watching some talks on Youtube and came across one that stood out to me. Keith Rabois introduces the concept of barrels and ammunition, which I thought was a really clever way to view organizations...

🌱 High Growth Handbook in 6 Minutes

One perk of this quarantine situation is that with no social events and no commute, I've starting reading more again. Most recently, I finally finished working through High Growth Handbook from Elad Gil...

🐿 5 Lessons from Life as a Data Scientist

This detour away from further specialization in data science surprised a lot of people. I learned a ton as a first-time data scientist from both a technical and a functional perspective...

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