The Beginning of Infinity – Summary and Insights
Below are some of my key takeaways from reading the book, The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch. If you are interested in more detailed notes from this book, they are available here.
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AWS RoboMaker – Simulating an RC Car
In November of 2018, Amazon announced the launch of RoboMaker, a cloud robotics service that makes it easy to develop, simulate, and deploy robotics applications at scale. RoboMaker provides a robotics development environment for application development, a robotics simulation service to accelerate application testing, and a robotics fleet management service for remote application deployment, update, and […]
Text Manipulation: Extracting, Translating, and Converting to Audio
A friend of mine was asking me about the technical complexity of a children’s picture book reading robot, the Luka. The robot is used to read children’s books in both English and Chinese. It looks at the pages and then reads the book aloud in English or Chinese. This product has three primary requirements: Extracting […]
The Practicing Stoic – Summary and Insights
Below are some of my key takeaways from reading the book, The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual by Ward Farnsworth. If you are interested in more detailed notes from this book, they are available here.
Turning Uncertainty Into A Competitive Advantage
The planning fallacy, first proposed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979, describes a bias that causes people to underestimate how long something will take and overestimate its impact. As a Product Manager, this is disheartening to read, but also not surprising. Features take longer to release than anticipated and they rarely deliver the […]
Making Things Happen – Summary and Insights
Below are some of my key takeaways from reading the book, Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun. If you are interested in more detailed notes from this book, they are available here.
Developing A Basic Map Data Pipeline
This post describes my work setting up a mapping pipeline. I was initially inspired by Eric Theise’s presentation on creating a Geostak. However, the tutorial was from a few years ago and I had trouble setting up some of the applications on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine. I used this as an opportunity to leverage docker […]
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Summary and Insights
Below are some of my key takeaways from reading the book, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. If you are interested in more detailed notes from this book, they are available here.
Who – Summary and Insights
Below are some of my key takeaways from reading the book, Who by Geoff Smart and Randy Street. If you are interested in more detailed notes from this book, they are available here.
Radical Candor – Summary and Insights
Below are some of my key takeaways from reading the book, Radical Candor by Kim Scott. If you are interested in more detailed notes from this book, they are available here.