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Busse's Weekly Retrospective - Issue #3: Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! ☀️

Chris Busse
Chris Busse
@busse
This week was a busy one with two consecutive days of marketing workshops for Terazo. We did a rebrand about two years ago, but now that we’re growing to a national footprint it’s time to iterate and level up — some design tweaks, but mostly around messaging. It’s a different world than it was two years ago, and it’s definitely interesting brainstorming brand personality and messaging for an emergent-post-pandemic world.
Really though, this is just my long way of saying that I meant to get this out on Friday, but here we are on Sunday. Hope you enjoy a few things here, and let me know what feedback you have! - Busse [chrisbusse@gmail.com]

Outputs
A few weeks ago I recorded a podcast with RVAtech/talks, and it’s out now. It’s mostly non-technical and I thankfully I sound better than I though I did after giving the interview. They have a good studio engineer!
chris busse 🎃
Honored to be a guest on the most recent @rvatech podcast; talking vocational education, my first IT job at VDH - Office of EMS, VR, early www, the evolution of APIs to the point we have them today and how to look at them from a business-value perspective https://t.co/AYPpUEBY1q
‎rvatech/Talks: Chris Busse - Chief Digital Officer at Terazo on Apple Podcasts
‎rvatech/Talks: Chris Busse - Chief Digital Officer at Terazo on Apple Podcasts
‎With a passion for the ways in which technologists build solutions for people, Chris helps Terazo’s clients find strategic success with their digital initiatives. Having worked in the IT industry for 20+ years, he recently helped launch the first public API platform for a North American bank and pre…
podcasts.apple.com
People
The CIA Spy Who Reinvented the Travel Guide
The CIA Spy Who Reinvented the Travel Guide
The year 1936 was a momentous year for global travel. The RMS Queen Mary made her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City. Aer Lingus took its first flight (from Dublin to Bristol)…
www.thedailybeast.com
The Highest Paid Person’s Opinion
The Highest Paid Person’s Opinion
On June 18, 2014 Jeff Bezos stood on stage in Seattle and announced the launch of Amazon’s brand new Fire Phone. Four years in the making, this was Amazon’s initial big push into consumer electronics and was hotly awaited.
jeffgothelf.com
Dare Obasanjo
No matter how embarrassing you think it is to say “I don’t know but I can follow up and get back to you” in a meeting, it looks a whole lot worse to fumble through an answer that shows everyone you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Business
I need to go back through this and give it a deeper read, because there’s many ways to define “integration” and I’m not sure this guide applies to all approaches:
Third-party integration — Product Manager’s guide on how to choose a vendor
Third-party integration — Product Manager’s guide on how to choose a vendor
Integrations are a part of many product managers’ lives. Let’s talk about how to think about integrations, and how to choose vendors. In this article, we will talk about points 1 and 2.
www.mindtheproduct.com
I joined the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts the other week; the couple that owned Best Products (headquartered in my native Richmond, VA) were major supporters of the Museum. I have seen articles like this before discussing the architecture of their stores, and this one happened to catch my eye this past week:
Site Specific: Postmodern ‘Best Products’ Showrooms Deconstruct Consumerism
Site Specific: Postmodern ‘Best Products’ Showrooms Deconstruct Consumerism
Large retail stores have historically been places where architects play it safe, sticking to big bare boxes with simple and familiar aesthetics.
99percentinvisible.org
Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain
Five years ago, the textile giant Welspun found itself mired in a scandal that hinged on a single word: “Egyptian”. At the time, Welspun was manufacturing more than 45m metres of cotton sheets every year – enough to tie a ribbon around the Earth and still have fabric left over for a giant bow.
www.theguardian.com
Technology
Justin hit the front page of Hacker News and got something like 200k+ views on this post — and it’s a great read both for software engineers and people who work with software engineers:
20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer
20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer
You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context.
www.simplethread.com
Why is AI critical to the future design leader?
I’m probably steeped in AI more than most designers. My day job at IBM is to design AI for a suite of supply chain software, to build patterns, and to foster the community of practitioners there. I published one book on it, am working on three other books about it, keep a sci-fi blog that […]
ambitiongrp.com
The Mountain in the Machine: Optimization and the Landscapes of Machine Learning – Sam P. Kellogg
The Mountain in the Machine: Optimization and the Landscapes of Machine Learning – Sam P. Kellogg
The hill-climbing search algorithm (steepest-ascent version) […] is simply a loop that continually moves in the direction of increasing value—that is, uphill. It terminates when it reaches a “peak” where no neighbor has a higher value.
culturemachine.net
Inputs
Stepping out of the firehose
Stepping out of the firehose
I’ve been collecting pictures like this for a while now, partly because they’re hilarious, but mostly because I think they say something interesting about how we find room for digital in our lives. The internet is a firehose.
www.ben-evans.com
50 Differences That Make a Difference: A Compendium of Frequently Confused Term Pairs in Psychology
An adequate understanding of specialized terminology is a prerequisite for the mastery of core concepts across all scientific disciplines, including psychological science.
www.frontiersin.org
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021: The List So Far
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021: The List So Far
At a ceremony in Antwerp today, chefs and restaurateurs from around the world — well, mostly Europe and the Americas but here’s to hoping — are gathered to learn which restaurants have been named one of the World’s 50 Best on a list sponsored by San Pellegrino.
www.eater.com
Radar
I’m in the “most NFTs are scams” camp, but ones that offer real utility intrigue me…
Physical Asset NFTs
Physical Asset NFTs
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mattereum.com
When The Music Stops
In a crowded landscape of new millionaires and infinite upside expectations, Aviv Milner investigates the Blockchain bubble to ask what will happen when the music stops. From NFTs to Binance pump tokens, this podcast takes a deeper look at the damage done by a completely unregulated market.
anchor.fm
chris busse 🎃
If I were to join *only one* Discord to learn more about the NFT community, which one should I join?

NFT project leaders, please don't hype me your project unless you really think it has the best overall community. Which Discord did you learn from? #NFT #NFTCommunity
Misc.
The Drone Unit that Helped the Taliban Win the War
The Drone Unit that Helped the Taliban Win the War
As the U.S. began its final drawdown of troops from Afghanistan in the spring, the Taliban’s drone unit moved into position for its most important mission yet.
newlinesmag.com
Plants Feel Pain and Might Even See
Plants Feel Pain and Might Even See
It’s time to retire the hierarchical classification of living things.
nautil.us
I couldn’t get the post to embed correctly, so here’s a screenshot for inspiration for your next team building event or family gathering:
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