Some things I’ve recently watched/read/listened to that I recommend.
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
- We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- An episode of the “Why is This Happening?” podcast with Coates that makes a good accompaniment/followup to his book
- This was a fascinating episode of “Reply All” that talks about social media hacking, the people and culture behind it, and the impact having “just a social media account” hacked can have on a person.
- Super Smash Bros
- Child of Light
- She-Ra – great reboot on Netflix
- Anastasia The Musical – great lead, amazing costumes, and technically complex set. The IT/AV nerd in me was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I was impressed that everything ran so smoothly.
Some things I helped with:
- https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/18/how-we-designed-page-previews-for-wikipedia/
- https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/28/interactive-maps-now-in-your-language/
A bunch of random links:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/self-assessment
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8vi02i/dads_of_reddit_what_is_your_advice_for_new_dads/
https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/8valyl/incredible_1080p_oncar_footage_of_the_1962_monaco/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8vc6b3/senior_citizens_of_reddit_what_were_the_elderly/
https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/8uj63t/21311_lego_ideas_voltron_revealed/
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/8s7y24/til_of_the_bullshit_asymmetry_principle_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/comments/a5lktv/the_privilege_of_the_petersonian_the_importance/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture
https://kottke.org/18/07/hidden-treasures-of-amsterdams-river
https://kottke.org/18/04/dna-sites-show-why-we-need-a-hippocratic-oath-for-data-science
https://kottke.org/18/04/the-culinary-wonders-of-msg
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/9tv799/steve_jobs_explains_why_a_companys_product/
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bureaucracy
https://lithub.com/fascism-is-not-an-idea-to-be-debated-its-a-set-of-actions-to-fight/
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/25/17279294/toronto-massacre-minassian-incels-internet-misogyny
https://medium.com/s/story/how-white-people-handle-diversity-training-in-the-workplace-e8408d2519f
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-government-sponsored-cyber-militia-cookbook/
https://nadiaeghbal.com/independent-research
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_equity_report_2018
https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-or-2018/public/schedule/detail/67172
https://twitter.com/jamchamb_/status/1025977659522789376
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=All%20Tea%20No%20Shade
https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/18/distributed-teams-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-officeless-politics/
https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/penn-jillette-in-conversation.html
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/18/17252410/jordan-peele-obama-deepfake-buzzfeed
http://jnack.com/blog/2018/08/26/everybody-dance-now-amazing-performance-transfer-tech/
https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-government-sponsored-cyber-militia-cookbook/
https://hbr.org/2018/07/youre-never-going-to-be-caught-up-at-work-stop-feeling-guilty-about-it
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/09/17/linus-torvalds-empathy
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/technology/smart-home-devices-domestic-abuse.html
https://twitter.com/i/moments/1039567055060492288
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/matreon-the-patreon-platform-for-emotional-labor
https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/up-next
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSJXKoD6mA8&index=2&list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJ5raH7_jw3DVvLHWwoxJzR
“Changing the World” by Erica Joy Baker – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi02tn3K2b4
“Machine learning failures – for art!” by Janelle Shane – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yneJIxOdMX4
https://seths.blog/2018/10/non-profit-overhead/
https://kottke.org/18/10/stochastic-terrorism
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2018-in-review/the-year-in-good-men
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1074856487514726400
“Rules for Online Sanity” https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=582aad955a2c357f3c39654b4&id=44b268dc3b
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