This week’s roundup features 4 new posts from friends of ribbonfarm: a book review, a career lessons type thing, 2 things about games. There are 8 links from elsewhere in the stuff-we-read section. Plus a new short takes section with <500 character thoughts from our Mastodon. We’re still working on tweaking the format.
Some urban goatspace
This roundup is a human-filtered subset of links and short takes aggregated by the Feed Fox bot authored by Zach Faddis, and running on the refactorcamp.org Mastodon instance. You can follow the bot directly if you want the unfiltered firehose.
New Posts
Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age (book review) by @stefanozorzi. Link
Any Experience is Good Experience, and Other Falsehoods by @james. Link
How to Not Lose at 4d Chess by @vgr. Link
Player of Games by putanumonit.com. Link
Comment on this post with your blog link if you want it monitored by Feed Fox for potential inclusion, along with your mastodon (preferred) or twitter handle. We mainly feature selections from longform blogs with a refactor-y vibe.
Stuff we read
“Federation is the worst of all worlds”. Link. ht @vgr
If you haven’t seen The Prisoner I can’t recommend it enough. Link. Link. ht @britt
Some Arctic Ground No Longer Freezing—Even in Winter. Link. ht @vgr
Everyone is stupid and contagious right now in Washington. Link. ht @jdp
Designing Happiness (interview with Stefan Sagemeister). Link. ht @mark
Ambient particulate air pollution reduces life expectancy at birth by average of 1 year, globally. Link. ht @strangeattractor
A weirdly fun and good “11 laws of showrunning” essay (pdf) that could serve as a leadership guide as well. Link. ht @vgr
The Great Chinese Art Heist . Link. ht @vgr
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Short takes
Resilience is having the strength to shoulder much, and the wisdom to carry little. — @zacharius
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