I am skipping every second week currently, with the result that today is a bit long.
I loved the podcast about the U-Cycle initiative in Ukraine and one about the climate-grandmas in Switzerland.
Leadership
Measuring Success & Performance of Managers - A Deep Dive [Podcast] - measuring individual contributors is already hard, measuring managers even more so.
Admiral Linda Fagan on servant leadership [Podcast] - I usually skip military leadership lessons, this is great, though.
An alternative to NPS for dev tools - NPS is questionable, this is another approach.
TBM 223: Why Aren’t They Saying Anything? - there are many reasons, it’s the leader’s job to figure it out and avoid the obvious ones.
Continuous Code Reviews using Non-Blocking Reviews - a case study
Work
Should you optimize for all-cash compensation, if possible? - it depends.
Story: Quitting (And Then Rejoining) Stack Overflow [Podcast] - cool story about the site.
Work-Life Harmony: Karinna Briseno Shares Her Experience at Buffer - hmmm.
Technology
Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’ - about “AI”
Apple Vision Pro Impressions! [YouTube] - this is a very reasonable review. It sounds like a nice toy, that is too expensive for me.
Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice - not good news.
Open-Source LLMs - I haven’t tried any of these, but I love to see projects built around them.
WezTerm - you can never have enough terminals, right?
Environment
The biggest climate case that ever was [Podcast] - older Swiss woman fighting to change climate laws.
Germany’s forests under threat [Podcast] - I didn’t realise that it was this bleak.
BBC OS Conversations: Mount Everest [Podcast] - climbing this mountain is looking different as climate change happens.
Testing New York Apartments: How Dirty Is That Gas Stove, Really? - pretty dirty.
Drought-struck Barcelona quenches thirst with costly desalination - climate change is costing us already.
Water war: Why drought in Spain is getting political - these are very peaceful wars at the moment.
Urbanism
Paved Paradise with Henry Grabar [Podcast] - parking again.
Sadiq Khan [Podcast] - the Mayor of London about pollution in London and climate change. (also: Sadiq Khan Q&A [Podcast])
Stockholmer Radpolitik, ukrainischer Widerstand & Shimano CUES [Podcast, mostly German]
- both, the interview with the minister for traffic of Stockholm (in German) and the interview with U-Cycle in Ukraine (in English) are great.
Car-Free Cities Are the Future, Biometrics Reveal - “sifting through these data we see that people do not like looking at cars”
Finnish businessman hit with €121,000 speeding fine - can we use this system worldwide, please?
Sex Work Bollards: Not Actually Bollards - better than nothing!
“Very conservative and unresponsive attitude towards bikes”: United Nations’ delegates slam policy of allowing cars in HQ but not bikes - always the same.
Five easy ways to reduce bike theft in your community [YouTube] - easy if they let you do this.
Nick Offerman [Podcast] - just a pleasant chat.
Post-Colau Barcelona: Implications, ‘bikelash’ and opportunities - I am worried.
Minnesota Legislature passes $1.3B transportation deal with gas tax hike, sending it to Walz - take from the cars and give to everybody else.
Random Birds
The Seagulls [Podcast] - turns out being homosexual is completely natural … who knew?
Why California is dismantling its death row [Podcast] - It is remarkable that this is even going on.
#167 Dr. Gina Poe: The Science of Better Sleep [Podcast] - this is all fine, if you have control over your environment.
Concert for the 50th anniversary of the album ‘Tubular Bells’ by Mike Oldfield. 4K [YouTube] - 50 years!?
‘Only 12 other people have completed it’: cycling the 7,600km European Divide - that looks beautiful.
‘Deeply personal and very authentic’: how podcasts took over the world in 20 years - 20 years!?
histography.io - a clickable timeline since the beginning of time. You can easily waste a few hours on this.
Getxophoto festival – in pictures - they are all lovely.
Living and working from an all-electric VW ID Buzz - nice.
Ditching a Phone Case Is the Latest Symbol of Stealth Wealth - it’s a sign of rich or careful people.