Author: Dave Paola

Happy Monday! Here are some interesting things things to read about to start your week:

1. Astronomy Picture of the Day: Radio, The Big Ear, and the Wow! Signal
2. The ethics of benefiting financially from the adversity of others
3. How is May likely go proceed, given the last month?
4. UFOs. Should we take this stuff seriously? Why? Why not?
5. We should really stop looking towards China with envy
6. A crazy, simple 0-day on iOS (hint: it’s XML parsers)

Here are some interesting links for today heading into the weekend:

1. What is the Chinese Communist Party’s agenda over the last decade or two, through the next 50 years? Highly recommended. Start at paragraph #5.
2. From 1990: Wile E. Coyote vs. Acme Company
3. Jason Crawford on Organizational Metabolism and the for-profit advantage
4. Auren Hoffman with some good advice on finding A-players during a downturn
5. Want to see the Starlink satellites in your area? Start here.
6. TIL you can screen share with anybody via Apple ID (MacOS obviously)
7. On an esoteric kick, Randall Carlson on the deep history of humanity as it relates to climate change, culture, progress, and more (Joe Rogan podcast)
8. The Navy officially released the videos of unidentified objects this week
9. Analysis of the recent movements in the stock market
10. Ruby adds experimental support for “end-less” method definitions
11. This guy ran a marathon in his backyard
12. A collection of Epigrams in Programming by Alan Perlis
13. A history of the manufacturing lessons GM took from Toyota in 2007
14. The Mafia is alive and well in Italy, and how organized crime offers value to citizens when the government doesn’t / can’t during the epidemic
15. From a16z: When Distribution Trumps Product

And lastly, a cool Astronomy Picture of the Day showing the Kepler-90 solar system and how it compares to our own.

Some interesting links for your Monday:

• Trust me, watch this all the way to the end (less than a minute)
• James Bond author Ian Fleming received a critical letter in 1956 regarding Bond’s firearm
• A 2 minute video by Andy Grove from an unknown date briefly explaining OKRs
• What can we learn from The Amish when it comes to healthcare?
• The original Big Short: Jim Fisk and the Civil War Short
• Brian Krebs traces the domain registrations of the “Reopen” surge
• A great way to visualize iPhone pricing
• About the parent wolf of the first wolf in Tahoe in 100 years
• Why discipline beats optimism
• A seemingly credible theory about the history of the coronavirus
• What happens when the tailwind of the internet goes away?
• Why do some people get sicker than others when they catch covid-19?
• Paul Buchheit cuts through the noise w/ a clear plan for the pandemic
• It is not enough to build apps. We must build institutions. – Mark Lutter

Lastly: Instacart is taking legal action against bots that automatically place orders. I am personally surprised they don’t offer this as a service – the market is speaking to them, and they’re not listening.