Mentions personal use of Algorithms to Live By.

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…The Carve Outs, for new listeners, is a thing that we do that is a book or a piece of media that we’ve consumed that may or may not be related to the topic of this podcast. A lot of times I’ll give an article or something that gave me pause and was something that I liked reflecting on or it might be more philosophical or any of those things. This time going kind of totally out there, there’s a little recap video from Burning Man on Vimeo by user Phil of Drones and it is one of the most just beautiful, visual captures of any real-life event I’ve ever seen. It’s a ton of drone footage. It’s a lot of maybe steady cam footage but it’s just this really tremendously beautiful recap of Burning Man this year. Burning Man, I think it gets bigger and bigger every year and more and more technology arrives there every year. So, you know, 10 years ago it was something that you’d hear about. You wouldn’t really get what it was and you couldn’t really get much about it. And now, people are still grappling with like what the heck is this thing if you’ve never been. Which, for the record, I’ve never been. But now, the amount of media coming out of this where we're seeing people, it’s just like incredible creations. It’s super cool. So, we’re going to drop the link in the show notes. It’s Burning Man 2016 by Phil of Drones on Vimeo. Go check it out. It’s a super cool way to spend 5 minutes. Super cool. Mine is a quick one this week. A new book that came out recently that I read called Algorithms to Live By, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. This is a super fun book, quick read. It’s about fundamental computer science algorithms like searching and sorting and scheduling and optimal stopping that you learn about in your intro to CS classes in college or in high school. But then about like what those algorithms are for people who aren’t CS folks, but how to apply them to your life and it’s super cool. It’s like how do you sort your closet based on optimal sorting algorithms to how should you handle your email based on scheduling algorithms to all sorts of stuff, how should you decide when you found the right person to marry based on optimal stopping problems. It’s very techy but written from a humanities perspective, so I enjoyed it quite a bit. I think I’ve got one. I wish I have the time to read books now. I have two kids under 3, so those days are– I mean, I assume they’ll come back.…

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