Short month, long podcast episodes.
Reading
Technical
Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often you talk to customers As summarized by Claude 2.1: Large backlogs indicate too many unvalidated assumptions about what customers want.
M-x Reloaded: The Second Golden Age of Emacs
Waiting for Postgres 17: Incremental base backups
Non technical
Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions That Many Secretly Need
Review a Research Paper: Constructive Critique in Five Steps
Youtube
~10 minutes
The pros and cons to life in Japan
Longer
Podcast
Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Some Advice for You
The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships All good wills!
Greeting Cards, Pizza Boxes, and Personal Injury Lawyers
From the Vault: “The Counterintelligence Chief” – with FBI Assistant Director Alan Kohler
Is Gynecology the Best Innovation Ever?
Best of 2023: Conversations of the Year their episodes are usually too long to finish, this one.. is still long.
Why Is It So Hard to Make Decisions?
Why Are People So Mad at Michael Lewis?
Inside the Taliban’s luxury hotel
How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy? (Replay)
“Agent of Betrayal, FBI Spy Robert Hanssen” – with CBS’ Major Garrett and Friends
‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world