Martin Cagan on Coaching - Strategic Context. Ensuring the product manager has the necessary understanding of the broader business context in which her team is operating. (more)

I'm replacing LastPass because the Free version is becoming useless, and $36/yr smells like overpricing. (more)

Want to start some LiveCoding - I think the mode I want to get into is having some sort of code-oriented loop-building tool, which I then let run and then improv with the Vindor, controlling some sample set (starting with a Baritone Sax). (more)

DisEnchanted has a nice near-RealTime non-WiKi-auto-BackLinks function, where they grab their log's Referer data to insert backlinks into their articles. (more)

Algebra (more)

Black Out - A couple days of darkness for millions of people. We NYC dwellers think of it as centering here, but that's just us. (more)

ConEd is being screamed at 9 days of Black Out in Queens for 100k residents. Before Burke took the helm of the utility company, Con Ed was under fire for the 1999 blackout in Washington Heights and a citywide power failure in 2003 (BlackOut-2003). Does having systems underground matter? (more)

Bob Frankston thinks the Smart Grid folks might be making things too complicated/expensive with a Bell-Head mentality.

Valdis Krebs notes the barriers to treating the World Energy Grid like a data Network, pointing to a Ny Times article. An Energy Department plan to source 20 percent of the nation's electricity from wind calls for a high-voltage backbone spanning the country that would be similar to 2,100 miles of lines already operated by a company called American Electric Power. The cost would be high, $60 billion or more, but in theory could be spread across many years and tens of millions of electrical customers. However, in most states, rules used by public service commissions to evaluate transmission investments discourage multistate projects of this sort. In some states with low electric rates, elected officials fear that new lines will simply export their cheap power and drive rates up...(Hmm, sounds like local Protectionism.) Save for two underwater connections to Long Island, New York State has not built a major new power line in 20 years. (NIMBY) (more)

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the industry body that oversees development of HTML and related Web standards, has today published the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) specification as a Recommendation, marking its final blessing as an official Web standard. Final approval came after the W3C's members voted 58.4 percent to approve the spec, 30.8 percent to oppose, with 10.8 percent abstaining... EME provides a standard interface for DRM protection of media delivered through the browser. EME is not itself a DRM scheme; rather, it defines how Web content can work with third-party Content Decryption Modules (CDMs) that handle the proprietary decryption and rights-management portion. (more)

Seth Godin: The Dip ISBN:1591841666 (more)

I am a geo-hydrologist and civil engineer, having worked in groundwater resources, mining, and geothermal energy. I am currently Global 4C project coordinator and Research Fellow with Project Drawdown. I recently analyzed the mitigation potential and economics of fly-ash cement and low-flow taps and faucets for domestic supply for the Project Drawdown book. My aim is to help solve the world carbon price problem with the development of a new policy framework for money-and-markets called Global 4C (global4c.org). The new policy can circumvent political delay and trigger a socio-economic transformation to a low-carbon future. The Global 4C proposal could be the theoretical 'missing link' for strong climate change mitigation and long run sustainability. My preferred career direction is to cultivate stakeholder relationships through the provision of digital currency (DigiCash) policy and technologies for financing effective environmental services. https://www.climatecolab.org/members/profile/1431031 (more)

WD MyBook 3TB For MacBookPro - (2020-09-25) Setting Up New MacBookPro. Using Syntech MARK2-1 adaptor between USB-A and USB-C. Dec12: Won't power up at all. Arrange return. (more)

Setting Up Python On New MacBookPro - from (2020-09-23) Time To Replace MacBookPro (more)

A is a B... never. (more)

Arnold Kling on the differences between BigWorld and SmallWorld. The Department of Homeland Security appeals to those of the Intelligent Design faith. It was created under the theory that the reason that government failed to prevent the 9/11 attacks was that it was not centralized enough. What we needed was a larger organization, with more missions and less ability to focus. As a hard-core Intelligent Design believer, Brad De Long believes that DHS could be effective with the right administrators. To skeptics (including many of its employees), DHS is a clusterfxxx no matter whom you put in charge. Generically, Intelligent Design theory supports bigger government. Because you believe that centralized solutions can work, you argue in favor of them. Every time you observe a phenomenon that strikes you as less than perfect - people without Health Insurance, people whose income fluctuates (Income Mobility), people who are overweight (Obesity) - you ring a bell and yell "Market Failure!" You presume that every social flaw can and should be addressed by government action... Transactions within the small organization are based on informal rules and tacit understanding. Responsibility for the success of the organization is shared. Members often trust one another completely and feel intensely loyal to the organization. When a few key members articulate a need for change, the rest of the organization will go along... Large organizations exist, in spite of their awkwardness, because they create or exploit Economies Of Scale.

I've had 3 of these (more)

What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system? She was on the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention’s brand-new, $44 million website called VAMS—the Vaccine Administration Management System, built by the consulting firm Deloitte. (more)

Yascha Mounk: Why I'm Losing Trust in the Institutions. Who should be first in line to get the vaccine against Covid-19? (more)

Herman Martinus: My product is my garden. I’ve been part of the internet startup scene for a while. There are so many different camps: the bootstrappers, the VC-backed tech-bros, the crypto “investors”, the people marketing their courses on marketing courses, the newsletter gurus, the micro-saas homeboys. (more)