Stuff George Writes

★★★★★ How Migration Really Works: The Facts About the Most Divisive Issue in Politics This book taught me a couple of things that contradicted what I thought I knew, namely that migration has remained pretty much stable, it’s an economic process, and immi…

It’s not just you: the world is scarier today than it was 30 years ago because history has restarted, but the antidote to the fear of living in historically important times is pretty simple: Pick 1-2 problems you see and work on them.

In my last post, I summarized why I think it’s so damn hard to understand what’s happening with AI.

Image from Midjourney of course.

I recently finished reading The Thinking Machine about Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the development of AI.

I started my career in tech as a product designer.

Backstory Right after graduating from college, I started my first company, Skritter, with my two best friends.

Nonfiction ★★★★★ Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist - changed the way that I view the behavior of myself and my young children. ★★★★★ Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet - some much…

A couple of weeks ago, I was at a work dinner with other members of my team.

My best friend believes that humanity has a 60% probability of becoming extinct in the next 15 years.

Here are the top 10 nonfiction books I read in 2023 and 3 things that each of them taught me. ★★★★★ An Immense World by Ed Yong An organism’s umwelt (pronounced “um-velt”) is a description of what they can perceive.

So far in 2023, I’ve read 24 books and gave up on 7.

I spent several hundred hours earlier this year researching how best to optimize my family’s investments.

This year I read 21 books.

Here’s what I read in Q4 2022. ★★★★☆ The Alchemy of Air This was a really, really good book.

“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor.

Book Bounty Before I get into it, have you read or do you know about any books focused on the following topics?

Back in January, my wife and I had our third child.

When I was a kid, my teachers would sometime issue slips of paper to students as a reward for good behavior.

I set quarterly goals for myself to not only write but also to read.

A little over a year ago, my family moved from San Carlos, CA to Austin, TX.