Karan Goel

Continuing the annual tradition, Mary Meeker has released the much-anticipated Internet Trends 2016 report. It's a staggering 213 pages long, and was released at the Code Conference 2016. Full slide deck in PDF is here.
To save you time, energy and battery, I went through the report and picked some of the most fascinating and mind-blowing statistics and graphs from the report. They are presented in the order they appear in. I will add my own commentary where I can and...

PyCon is the official and the largest gathering of the Python community. I've wanted to attend one for the past three years, but this time the stars aligned. I was able to attend PyCon US 2016 in Portland, OR.
The three days of the conference were packed with keynotes, talks, open spaces and social meetings. It was a phenomenal event, and I intend to come back in the following years....

The day I moved to the US for college, I knew what I wanted after graduating. I am like most aspiring entrepreneurs and programmers, and wanted to be right in the middle of all the action - Silicon Valley. But when that dream was about to materialize...

I find knowledge disseminated through motion picture (I swear I'm not 90 years old) far more effective than through other media. To that extent, I watch a lot of documentaries; a few hours worth every week. Leaving some propaganda movies out, most documentaries...