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Babbage's avatar

What a fantastic post Jon! The Oishii strawberries look amazing.

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Jon Metzler's avatar

Thank you. And yes, I felt more than a frisson of guilt eating something so pretty. But I think that’s a feature, not a bug...

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Doug O'Laughlin's avatar

Oh hey - thanks for the call out! Happy you enjoyed Tiger Technology. Its *dense* but very good

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Jon Metzler's avatar

It's fantastic! Yes, it's dense, but substantively so. Though I think my students share your assessment ;-) Pairing it with the very readable Chip War made a good A-side, B-side pairing.

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Doug O'Laughlin's avatar

where do you teach? and yeah chip war sounds like a much easier book to swallow. I love the semi history, and I found very specific pieces in tiger tech superrrr good, but most of it felt like the most intense research paper i've ever read.

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Doug O'Laughlin's avatar

where do you teach? and yeah chip war sounds like a much easier book to swallow. I love the semi history, and I found very specific pieces in tiger tech superrrr good, but most of it felt like the most intense research paper i've ever read.

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Jon Metzler's avatar

Ha! Yes, I guess Tiger Technology gets pretty dense. I loved all the tables on tech transfer partnerships. Wonky but super useful in explaining.

I teach undergrads and grad students at UC-Berkeley. Clusters class is cross-listed between the MBA program and school of public policy.

Btw loved the Transistor Radio podcast comparing the fiber overbuild era with our current AI investment boom with you, Dylan and Jon Y!

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