This week I enjoyed the last episode in the Industry Special from Escape Collective about Chinese brands. The Overnight Success podcast is worth subscribing to, even if you are not into bicycles. It’s about founders and their businesses.
Leadership
Struggle Creates Value - “We are going to, and we need, to struggle together.”
How To Measure Developer Productivity? - it’s difficult and shouldn’t be a goal anyway.
Engineering
AI’s Affordability Crisis - “For $200 A Month, You Can Burn $8000 in Anthropic Tokens or $14,000 In OpenAI Tokens”
Everyone is Wrong About AI Except Me - I am looking forward to all the films that go the other way.
Anthropic’s Fable and the State of AI - “There is no foolproof way to prevent people from using AI models to complete harmful tasks.”
visa/visa-vulnerability-agentic-harness - interesting, I haven’t actually tried it.
Urbanism
Paid to cycle to work. By law. [YouTube] - nice. If I ever have a company again, and an office, I’ll pay cyclists a bonus. OK, it’s unlikely.
Industry Special Episode 3: The Rise of the Chinese Brands [Podcast] - scary times, it’s unlikely the current companies will change.
‘Carspreading’ could lead to extra 2,600 crash deaths a year by 2040, study finds - lovely.
Barcelona reopens the city’s largest saltwater pool - nice, I can’t wait to see the improvements to the Forum.
Environment
Catalonia records 42 deaths related to high temperatures between Sunday and Wednesday - will people accept that climate change is real? Nope.
5.700 Kilometer ohne Auftanken: Finne fährt mit selbstgebautem Solarboot nach Ibiza [German] - amazing. (5,700 km without refueling: a Finn sails to Ibiza with a solar yacht)
Random Dog
Dog ride, New Zealand, 1898-1904 - I love the ExhibitExplorer!
Brexit really was a battle of yesterday versus today and tomorrow - this is not helping.
From The West Wing to Blackadder: the best fictional prime ministers on TV - I remember some of these.
Other Links
- Weekly Design Links – 06/23/26
- Linkfest #46: “Curse Tablets”, a Robot Cellist, and Why Geologists Always Die In Movies
- Links #164