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Lots of things happening in urbanism, especially with Paris planning to remove through traffic.
Management
Rapid Response: Inside Google’s Pandemic Safety Squad, w/Chief Health Officer Dr. Karen DeSalvo [Podcast] - interesting insights from the inside of Google, with someone who's role has unexpectedly changed focus because of the pandemic
Get Started with Team Topologies in 8 Steps - very short summary of the book
Instacart tells entry-level team to return to office, senior managers can stay home - in today's "how not to communicate changes" news ...
SAFe is Not Agile - I would assume everybody has realised this by now
Why it Pays to Raise Pay [Podcast] - interesting perspective. For many companies raising pay also means less employees, so this has to be balanced somehow.
Amortizing Software Rewrites: An Evolutionary Approach - I don't really agree with the first point "The need to rewrite whole or parts of software arises quite often", but otherwise an interesting and probably expensive approach to a rewrite
Can virtual meeting spaces save us all from Zoom fatigue? - no
Matthew Bilotti (Twitter) [Podcast] - another staff engineer interview, this one is quite fun
Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career [Podcast] - I really like Will's down to earth approach. It seems much more pragmatic than what I would have expected from his books.
Technology
Global shortage of computer chips could last two years, says IBM boss - maybe that explains the lack of choice of ThinkPad laptops in Spain at the moment
Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money? - same story from a lot of open source projects
Environment
Elon Musk says Tesla will no longer accept bitcoin due to fossil fuel use - I guess he is just sitting on $1.5bn of bitcoins now for a while?
Hydrofoiling - Tim Bray looking at alternatives to diesel boats. Leasure boats are probably the worst for the environment, because they use a lot of fuel and are not necessary at all
Ouigo launches its high-speed railway service ending state monopoly - if this works out it could reduce the number of flights between Barcelona and Madrid, which would be nice. Sadly they still are pretty strict on bicycle transport.
How has our thinking on the climate crisis changed? [Podcast] - The Guardian looking back over 70 years of reporting on the crisis
Urbanism
Where Covid’s Car-Free Streets Boosted Business - all over the place
Paris Will Ban Through Traffic in City Center - that's it! I am moving to Paris.
Paris Cracks Down On Cars In City Center - fewer cars and baguettes, what is not to love?
The quick way to make new pedestrian plazas [YouTube] - is it just me or do all of these look a bit depressing? Good as a first step, but they need to grow and made permanent with plants and street furniture. I do like the wooden decking though.
Asphalt, Gridlock and Common Sense - "Urban transportation needs many things, but it doesn’t need more asphalt. We should all understand that by now. It’s common sense."
Pobles i ciutats 30: menys velocitat, més seguretat [Catalan] - Spain is changing the default speed for many city roads to 30km/h, some even to 20km/h. I hope other countries copy something like this.
Episode #273 – Ralph Buehler and John Pucher On Cycling For Sustainable Cities [Podcast] - mostly a book review, but still good
Random Games
12 Minutes is a star-laden thriller in a bite-size package - could we have it released no please?
12 Minutes: 6-Minute Director Gameplay Commentary [YouTube] - pretty please?Longitude [Podcast] - history of measuring Longitude, which required different disciplines working together.
Tour de France organisers reveal women’s race will be revived in 2022 - about time! No details about the format though.
WR1231 Arbeiten im Impfzentrum [Podcast, German] - a report from someone working in a vaccination centre in Berlin.
COVID-19 Projections - lets hope that these are overestimated
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