Seven quick links for Sunday morning
Graphics, governance, gibberish, galactic, garbage, growth, and glitchy.
Shared by Simon HarrisI Tried Simulating The Entire Ocean. I’m pretty much never going to need to do this (and let’s face it, the math is beyond me anyway) but I love watching the way people solve these kinds of scaling problems. I think it’s also super important to show new developers (like my kids) how the creative process is iterative, with many “failures” along the way.
A virtuous and systematic approach to sustainable organizational change. If authority relies too heavily on factors related to identity, the result will be something like an extremist cult. On the other hand, if the basis of authority focuses entirely on methodological rigor, we end up with a technocratic system that alienates the people it is meant to represent.
The “Hero’s Journey” Is Nonsense. My kids are taught Campbell’s “hero’s journey” in school. Turns out, it’s vague, ethnocentric, sexist, hetero-normative, cis-normative, and ignores the ways stories are shaped by the cultures and time periods in which they are produced.
Voyager 1 survives clogged thruster issue billions of miles away. Both spacecraft are unimaginably far away, and require ongoing manoeuvring so they can explore interstellar space. Something no one expected when they first launched nearly 50 years ago.
Why “AI” projects fail. Companies are spending a lot of time and money integrating AI for the sake of getting onboard the AI train, and not a lot of time understanding and solving real problems.
Technical Leadership. Instead of resenting non-technical people for occupying leadership positions, technical experts can (and should) develop business acumen, and interpersonal and communication skills, in order to scale their influence.
We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI. The protocols underpinning the internet are old, and venerable, and riddled with holes.