My favorite links from the week:
- The symphony orchestra and the industrial revolution
- Deserve is a toxic word (very short)
- Building a better kindle (why buttons matter)
- Primitive technology: Round Hut (10m)
- Teller Reveals his Secrets – In my opinion, a surprising amount of this shows up in leadership and management (and not always in a good way)
- Rails 6 looks like it will support multiple databases. I’ve run into this use case several times, it’s great to see it being refactored.
- New authorization framework for rails, action_policy
- True Facts about Frogfish – a new video in a humorous nature documentary
- An interesting post about how writing about nature influenced an author’s writing style
- Fascinating (and sorta terrifying) video of a tornado forming very close by
- We’ve got a (very short) video from the surface of a comet. Unreal. The stars in the background are striking.
- Another side of Feynman
- What one person learned by living without artificial light
- A note to the classically insecure (classical music)
- Why it’s OK to be obvious and Why Common Sense is not Common Practice. This makes me think of a line (I think from Andy Grove?): “Lynyrd Skynyrd played Free Bird for 30 years”
- An accurate, computer generated image of the milky way based on the data from 1.6 billion stars
- I subscribe to The Bell, which periodically posts first-hand, interesting things from inside Russia for westerners. From what I can glean it’s one of the few media sources not state-sponsored. Here’s the latest.
- A very short, concise explanation of why I hate politics so much: David Foster Wallace on John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign
- Some good news from the Korean peninsula
- Entrepreneurship, the second time around
- Was there a civilization on Earth before humans? (Definitely not. But maybe?)
- Some good links for equipment to set up a war room
- A brief history of the steel guitar
Have a great weekend!
