Benedict Evans
Tech, mobile & media. Trying to work out what's going on, and what happens next. @a16z.
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Recommendations by Benedict Evans
Benedict Evans's Review:
@Dannythefink @PCollinsTimes the alternative is to read his Robert Moses book: similar reading experience and 1/4 the length.
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/659109765356716032
Benedict Evans's Review:
@mediareformUK @johngapper Umberto Eco's new book about conspiracy theories is much better written
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/672711200682086401
The Early History of Rome: Bks. 1-5 (Penguin Classics)
book
by Livy, R M Ogilvie, Stephen Oakley, Aubrey De Selincourt
Benedict Evans's Review:
@freecloud @pmarca Livy is the better book, Polybius is a historian. Much like Herodotus versus Thucydides
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/579906034841493504
Benedict Evans's Review:
@adammarx13 @pmarca a very partial book. Valuable but incomplete.
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/559507390907707392
Benedict Evans's Review:
More people should know who Max Martin is (The Song Machine - The New Yorker)
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/724413570188865536
Benedict Evans: @jmseabrook it’s a good book. and JJ Abrams is the Max Martin of film
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/724429495348785152
Benedict Evans's Review:
Reading 'The Conquest of New Spain' by Bernal Diaz. 400 Spaniards & 20 horses against the Aztec empire, by a man who was there.'
Benedict Evans's Review:
Reading ''This Time is Different' http://bit.ly/by3iHb - more insight in each page than a whole Malcolm Gladwell book...
Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot
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by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Benedict Evans's Review:
Useful primer for (today) Venezuela and Argentina. The sad thing is that this book is almost 20 years old.
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/688893829705936896
Benedict Evans's Review:
This is perhaps the best book about the future of ecommerce
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/756204218147450880
Benedict Evans's Review:
Mubi is a great product, but also a view on the future of video - less mass aggregation than lots of boutiques.
Benedict Evans's Review:
Love this by @mims - Amazon marketplace as the new high-frequency trading platform.
Benedict Evans's Review:
Mobile 2.0 — what assumptions can we leave behind, and what do we build next?
Benedict Evans's Review:
Hearing disturbing rumors that engineering prototype do not necessarily look like finished products (image: iPad pr…
Benedict Evans's Review:
Facebook & Google are index funds - they mirror user behavior. Snap is trying to create from scratch, over & over ♻️
Benedict Evans's Review:
Real Life Infographic of Over 100 Objects Integrated Into the iPhone | Spoon & Tamago
Benedict Evans's Review:
The unexpected ways our lives will change when cars drive themselves - The Washington Post
Benedict Evans's Review:
Google's TPU Chip Helped It Avoid Building Dozens of New Data Centers | WIRED
Benedict Evans's Review:
Leader of the Internet Explorer Project, Ben Slivka | Internet History Podcast
Benedict Evans's Review:
The clouds are so thick you can't see where your airship is? Put a crewman in a tin can on a string and lower him t…
Benedict Evans's Review:
A16z podcast with @tomcoates and @mathowie (and me) - open web, blogging, discovery, links, community.
Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data
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by @googleresearch
Benedict Evans's Review:
Research Blog: Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data
Benedict Evans's Review:
Remembering Bob Silvers | by Christopher Benfey | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
Benedict Evans's Review:
As 2006 was for smartphones so 2017 is for augmented reality - everything is just about to happen, but what? 👁
Benedict Evans's Review:
How eBooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip' | Books | The Guardian
Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot
book
by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Benedict Evans's Review:
John Lewis is trialling shopping deliveries straight to your car - Fashion & Mash
Benedict Evans's Review:
Economic frustration drives young French voters towards Le Pen: 40% of 18-24s polling for National Front
Benedict Evans's Review:
Inside Amazon’s Battle to Break Into the $800 Billion Grocery Market - Bloomberg
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a16z Podcast: The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups: Textio and Everlaw
Benedict Evans's Review:
This week’s newsletter has just gone out to 65,454 people. It’s pretty good.
Benedict Evans's Review:
@Dannythefink @PCollinsTimes the alternative is to read his Robert Moses book: similar reading experience and 1/4 the length.
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/659109765356716032
Benedict Evans's Review:
@mediareformUK @johngapper Umberto Eco's new book about conspiracy theories is much better written
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/672711200682086401
The Early History of Rome: Bks. 1-5 (Penguin Classics)
book
by Livy, R M Ogilvie, Stephen Oakley, Aubrey De Selincourt
Benedict Evans's Review:
@freecloud @pmarca Livy is the better book, Polybius is a historian. Much like Herodotus versus Thucydides
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/579906034841493504
Benedict Evans's Review:
@adammarx13 @pmarca a very partial book. Valuable but incomplete.
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/559507390907707392
Benedict Evans's Review:
More people should know who Max Martin is (The Song Machine - The New Yorker)
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/724413570188865536
Benedict Evans: @jmseabrook it’s a good book. and JJ Abrams is the Max Martin of film
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/724429495348785152
Benedict Evans's Review:
Reading 'The Conquest of New Spain' by Bernal Diaz. 400 Spaniards & 20 horses against the Aztec empire, by a man who was there.'
Benedict Evans's Review:
Reading ''This Time is Different' http://bit.ly/by3iHb - more insight in each page than a whole Malcolm Gladwell book...
Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot
book
by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Benedict Evans's Review:
Useful primer for (today) Venezuela and Argentina. The sad thing is that this book is almost 20 years old.
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/688893829705936896
Benedict Evans's Review:
This is perhaps the best book about the future of ecommerce
Ref: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/756204218147450880
Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot
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by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Alvaro Vargas Llosa
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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Turning Back The Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism
by Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen
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The Early History of Rome: Bks. 1-5 (Penguin Classics)
by Livy, R M Ogilvie, Stephen Oakley, Aubrey De Selincourt
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A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
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The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
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The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics)
by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, John M. Cohen
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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
by Carmen M. Reinhart
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Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot
by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Alvaro Vargas Llosa
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Au Bonheur des Dames (Penguin Classics)
by Émile Zola, Robin Buss
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Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot
by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Alvaro Vargas Llosa
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Benedict Evans's Review:
Love this by @mims - Amazon marketplace as the new high-frequency trading platform.
Benedict Evans's Review:
Mobile 2.0 — what assumptions can we leave behind, and what do we build next?
Benedict Evans's Review:
Hearing disturbing rumors that engineering prototype do not necessarily look like finished products (image: iPad pr…
Benedict Evans's Review:
Facebook & Google are index funds - they mirror user behavior. Snap is trying to create from scratch, over & over ♻️
Benedict Evans's Review:
Real Life Infographic of Over 100 Objects Integrated Into the iPhone | Spoon & Tamago
Benedict Evans's Review:
The unexpected ways our lives will change when cars drive themselves - The Washington Post
Benedict Evans's Review:
Google's TPU Chip Helped It Avoid Building Dozens of New Data Centers | WIRED
Benedict Evans's Review:
Leader of the Internet Explorer Project, Ben Slivka | Internet History Podcast
Benedict Evans's Review:
The clouds are so thick you can't see where your airship is? Put a crewman in a tin can on a string and lower him t…
Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data
article
by @googleresearch
Benedict Evans's Review:
Research Blog: Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data
Benedict Evans's Review:
Remembering Bob Silvers | by Christopher Benfey | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
Benedict Evans's Review:
As 2006 was for smartphones so 2017 is for augmented reality - everything is just about to happen, but what? 👁
Benedict Evans's Review:
How eBooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip' | Books | The Guardian
Benedict Evans's Review:
John Lewis is trialling shopping deliveries straight to your car - Fashion & Mash
Benedict Evans's Review:
Inside Amazon’s Battle to Break Into the $800 Billion Grocery Market - Bloomberg
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The High-Speed Trading Behind Your Amazon Purchase
by @mims
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Mobile 2.0
by @benedictevans
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Benedict Evans on Twitter
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Facebook and Snapchat: metrics versus creation
by @benedictevans
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Facebook and Snapchat: metrics versus creation
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Images as the universal inputs – Artificial Intelligence with a Vision
by @ryandawidjan
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What I’ve been up to for the past 4 years
by @pud
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Cars and second order consequences
by @benedictevans
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Real Life Infographic of Over 100 Objects Integrated Into the iPhone
by @Johnny_Strategy
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The name game
by @salon
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The unexpected ways our lives will change when cars drive themselves
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Building an AI Chip Saved Google From Building a Dozen New Data Centers
by @wired
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Leader of the Internet Explorer Project, Ben Slivka
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Benedict Evans on Twitter
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Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data
by @googleresearch
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Donald Judd Furniture
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Remembering Bob Silvers
by @perrylink
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Robert Caro, The Art of Biography No. 5
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The Profound Implications of 5 Increasingly Dominant Tech Companies
by @loukerner
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The first decade of augmented reality
by @benedictevans
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How eBooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip'
by @CocozzaPaula
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The Making of Future Man
by @JamesGleick
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John Lewis is trialling shopping deliveries straight to your car
by @rachel_arthur
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Autonomous Vehicles and the End of Privacy
by @ErnOpp
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The Curious State of Apple Product Pricing
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Mobile 2.0
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Inside Amazon’s Battle to Break Into the $800 Billion Grocery Market
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Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume
by @harvardbiz
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Benedict Evans's Review:
Mubi is a great product, but also a view on the future of video - less mass aggregation than lots of boutiques.
Benedict Evans's Review:
A16z podcast with @tomcoates and @mathowie (and me) - open web, blogging, discovery, links, community.
Benedict Evans's Review:
Economic frustration drives young French voters towards Le Pen: 40% of 18-24s polling for National Front
Benedict Evans's Review:
This week’s newsletter has just gone out to 65,454 people. It’s pretty good.
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‘Coin-operated Idiots’ – Andreessen Horowitz
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MUBI – Stream & Download Curated Films on the App Store
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How fashion brands are using WhatsApp
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SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds
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Todd and Freddy – Andreessen Horowitz
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A Whirlwind Tour Through Tech Trends in China – Andreessen Horowitz
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Famous Books on the App Store
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