My favorite links from this week:
- A modern Rasputin: The most dangerous philosopher in the world
- Sandi Metz: The wrong abstraction
- From Res Obscura: When California was the Bear Republic
- New collar design lets us see exactly how extreme cheetahs really are
- Tyler Cowen’s list of reasons why tech has so many political problems
- Fred Wilson’s (short) thoughts on changing NYC. Thinking a lot about this w/ regard to SF as well as Lake Tahoe
- Good advice on writing (the suggestion about concrete prompts of an email ring true to me)
- The wildfires of california are visible via satellite
- Scientific American: The Dark Core of Personality
- Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change by Neil Postman (I try to pay particularly close attention to #1)
- Some interesting stats from HBR about where people are willing to move for work and where they are not
- Dick Cavett in the Digital Age
- A layperson’s explanation of the software that underlies supply chain management and the implications of its design
- A good reminder of Metcalfe’s Law
- Rails 5.2.1 released
- An excellent post by Rands: Kobayashi Maru Management. Too familiar.
- Why is Jordan Peterson so popular?
- An awesome video from the American Museum of Natural History: Human Population Through Time (6m)
- Two SMBC comics seem highly relevant today: Reverse Victorianism and The Greatest Generation
- A hilarious (but totally realistic) satirical TED talk: I am a Thought Leader (4m)
- Recently digitized and declassified videos of nuclear tests
- XKCD: Voting Software
Have a great week.
