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PyCon UK 2022 is happening this year after a hiatus - in person, in Cardiff, from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th September 2022. We never tried to run it as an online conference, but Emilia Lazer-Walker's "So you want to run a virtual event" looks to be full of e…
The Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness is a brilliant piece of writing in Terry Pratchett's Men at Arms that does a great job of illustrating how it's expensive to be poor. Siderea's The Vimes Boots Theory: Further Reflections has the theory in full, an…
The "Eisenhower matrix" of urgent/important is a fairly well-known model, but if just knowing about a model solved problems, everything would be much easier - Joe Dunn's "How to Dig Yourself Out of Overwhelm" covers a range of techniques and approaches to get…
It's great to see more and more home automation kit on the market. It's sad to see how much of it is terrible, overly intrusive, or unnecessarily internet-connected. As a homeowner, fortunately, it's almost entirely my choice. Unfortunately for Lesley Carhart…
Patrick McKenzie has a great series of general questions that would be valuable to ask during a project - when I think about things that I've worked on, almost all would have benefited from someone raising some of these! A particular favourite: "How can we ge…
Currently making headlines, the question: Will Jeff Bezos Get Half of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fortune in the Divorce? Except most places aren't quite addressing it that way. Penelope Trunk looks at divorce and how stay-at-home spouses are so commonly and frequently…
You read the first 20 pages of a book and find no typos. Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence - you probably wouldn't expect the probability of a typo in the entire book to be zero, but what might it be? John D. Cook explains the rule of three, a "qu…
On the back of last week's Twitter thread from Patrick McKenzie, Grey Baker sent me some fascinating reading about signalling: Feltovich, Harbaugh and To's paper "Too cool for school? Signalling and countersignalling" (with a nice summary write-up in the Econ…
Chelsea Troy wrote a great article on Syllabus Design. I've done some basic syllabus design before, for short internal / client workshops, but it's all been very ad-hoc - this article walks through a sample syllabus with context and rationale, and looks great…