I’ve changed my monthly contribution from the Guardian to the Taz.
The Guardian is a bit weird and was not doing that much for me anymore. It’s not clear what they’re about and I’m mostly disappointed in their roster of writers.
Taz, I only read occasionally but they’re local (with an office that is practically next to my house) and they’re a lot more left-wing than the Guardian is.
I haven’t found many good alternative newspapers other than the FT which is ridiculously expensive.
I didn’t think I would be working with MISP, a threat intelligence platform written in PHP but now I am and here you can read a bit more about the various things we’re doing with it.
An excellent talk by Tanya Reilly about the career impacts of technical and glue (non-technical) work especially for underrepresented groups: “Being promoted is diversity work.”
I’m not a data scientist but I’ve been trained for it (as part of my computer science degree) and I’ve worked in a bunch of related fields. I wholly endorse this take by Vicki Boykis on the state of data science and what you need to be successful at it.
1. Learn SQL
2. Learn a programming language extremely well and learn programming concepts
3. Learn how to work in the cloud
https://veekaybee.github.io/2019/02/13/data-science-is-different/
I really like this way of looking at team success, but I’d clarify that success means that a team not only holds each other accountable but me as well.
For me, the answer is both simple and complex. Simply, I’ve achieved success when the teams I
manage hold themselves accountable.
A very necessary housing revolution is underway in Berlin that has the potential to halt market forces that are running amok. After Barcelona, now Berlin. Who’s next?
This piece about Stephen Wolfram’s productivity system is too much but also too fascinating to stop reading.
This description of the Goldsmith MA Design Expanded Practice is more or less also how I prefer to work whether in my own practice or anywhere else. An exposition of how to redesign design education that is well worth reading.
We wanted to build a new form of post-disciplinary practice that utilised some deep material skills (from their UG degrees and professional practices) and theoretical skills (from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds), but evolving them through team work and collaboration. We didn’t want to reduce design to a set of methods or ‘design thinking’ processes, we wanted to give students the space to develop and evolve a truly expanded practice.
https://medium.com/@matthewward/on-reflection-rethinking-masters-design-education-cd9cd8ad71c8
I think it’s lovely that you can do stuff like this these days in Jira (Cloud at least) but given the
https://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/2019/02/04/agile-at-astrumu-a-case-study/
A comprehensive list of the challenges for agile development in enterprise environments with the solutions included for immediate implementation.
https://medium.com/startup-patterns/why-enterprise-agile-teams-fail-4ae64f7852d6
Analogies always deceive more than they reveal; I am no fan of analogies, I do not use them. Even metaphor, that mental operation we use with almost every word we speak, is slippery and deceptive. I always speak as plainly as I can.
“Oh, nothing. I wish I knew what was going on.” She shook her head, stared at the wall. “It’s China,”she said. “Give up on that.”
He watched his mom fondly. How many times he had heard this story. Even inside the device, the weight of the world was still crushing him.
Bikes with trailers still doddering along right in the middle of the crazy mash of vehicles. Amazing to see such foolhardy recklessness. No doubt whole lifetimes had been spent in that danger. No different from a sailor going out to sea. Dangerous, yes, but not automatically fatal. A mode of being. Suddenly he saw they were all like those bicyclists, all the time. Someday every one of them would get run over.
And maybe it didn’t differ that much; prospectors were after money, which made them close students of the moon’s information; scientists were after the moon’s information, which if found would turn into a good living for them. So money and information were fungible and kept turning into each other. But in the end it was being on the hunt that mattered.