I spend hundreds of hours each year running, working, commuting and “getting stuff done” with podcasts. I thought that this was something new, it isn’t…
“Thus arose the tradition of lectors, who sat perched on an elevated platform in the cigar factory, reading to the workers. It started in Cuba and was brought to the United States more particularly to Key West in 1865 when thousands of Cuban cigar workers emigrated to Florida to escape Spanish oppression.”
A lot of what happens on the internet is criticised as having no impact and being just plain narcissism. Well…
“Dismissed by some at the time as “slacktivism” – an exercise that appears to do good while achieving very little – the ice bucket challenge raised more than $115m (£88m) for motor neurone disease in a single month. Now, scientists funded with the proceeds have discovered a gene variant associated with the condition.”
How the ice bucket challenge led to an ALS research breakthrough
Increasingly businesses are being built on untested technologies. In some cases there are technologies being implemented that hold the tag line beta although people are paying for them.
To be a success in these new domains you need experience, and quickly. One way to gain experience is to pool the data, share the experience across the industry. We’ve seen this with Open Source in the past.
Interestingly we’re now seeing engineering companies publish Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) in the public domain. Tesla are doing it as part of a media battle battle. Others for other unstated reasons, like Koenigsegg…
A Koenigsegg One:1 endured a severe crash at the Nürburgring Circuit in Germany last Monday, 18th July.
Koenigsegg Analysis Of Nurburgring Accident – Koenigsegg | Koenigsegg
A quick tip for the none engineers: If your teams don’t produce RCAs this well, they’re not working hard enough!
A Barrio Norte, une ville de Buenos Aires, on peut trouver un sublime repère pour lecteurs appelé El Ateneo Grand Splendid. Cette librairie a été construite
100-Year-Old Theatre Turned into a Magnificent Bookstore – Fubiz Media
The only question for Pokemon Go now is how long is the tail.
For those not following along at home, I live outside of Paris. There are no Parisien buildings, no boulevards and there is a single train line that links us to “civilisation”.
A couple of weeks ago I was researching software carpentry and places in France where training was happening and found to my surprise Bures sur Yvette on the list! Even stranger, I’d walk past the entrance to Proto204 without ever going in…
Inside is hidden the world of Proto204. A place for researchers, students, start ups and even us locals to meet and discuss technology.
To kick things off I managed to get a ticket to the session titled “Optimistes Numériques (O.N.)” which thanks for the single train line I turned up to spectacularly late but…
The videos are available here, and are well worth watching:
I’ll write about my day in more detail later but the size of the event was very impressive.
There were a number of great ideas to look at. I’ll write about some of them in the coming weeks.
“Takk fyrir Island. Thank you Iceland. Thank you for Gudmundur Benediktsson’s epic falsetto commentary, for bringing one-tenth of the population to France to take part in this odyssey, for making Cristiano Ronaldo uppity and reminding the rest of us of the essential valour of the little guy’s right to his aspirations, for competing so fearlessly to defeat England, for blowing our minds. Thank you for your co-manager’s other job in dentistry, your class and determination in searching for a first win at a major”