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vaughnkoch

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Founder, Kivo Health, YC W23. Based in Seattle.

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vaughnkoch··on “The Precession of Simulacra” by Jean Baudrillard
If you're confused, you might want to read Richard Dawkins's general rebuttal to this type of twaddle: http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/824
vaughnkoch··on Flatland: A Forgivably Flat Classic
If you're thinking of getting the annotated version, another classic in the same spirit is The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner. It exposes a lot of double entendres, mathematical games, and other historical stuff about Alice in Wonderland that shows how much of a playful mathematician Lewis Carroll was.
vaughnkoch··on I don't like Python. Does that make me a bad person?
Or even easier: ipython >>> from django.http import * >>> HttpRequest?? # prints out source code for HttpRequest
vaughnkoch··on Ask HN: Please suggest some good books on software product management.
--- Books ---

Tuned In - great book, describes how to really understand user perspectives as opposed to 'inside-out' development. The book's based on many principles taught in the Pragmatic Marketing prodm course.

Inspired (Marty Cagan) - good cross section of PM, covers People, Process and Product separately. Startups to large companies.

The Art of Product Management - a series of articles, describes software PM in startups to larger companies. More about the role of PM rather than product itself.

Rules for Revolutionaries - Guy Kawasaki's book, half entrepreneur morale book and half how to create a product quickly.

--- Blogs ---

Cranky Product Manager - crankypm.com

Silicon Valley Product Group - svpg.com (Marty Cagan's blog)

--- I would avoid: ---

Value Prop (Jose Palomino)

Will It Fly? (Thomas McKnight)