Linked List: July 2024
Monday, 29 July 2024
- ♫ Echolocation ✶
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Transporting song by La Cerca, a band I saw at Central Saloon in Seattle on Saturday night.
Thursday, 25 July 2024
- Run meetings like a Dungeon Master ✶
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Ben Collins-Sussman:
I’ve been a manager for decades, with my own strengths and weaknesses. A couple of years ago one of my reports asked me candidly:
I hate meetings, but for some reason, I love coming to your weekly staff meeting. What’s going on? Why is it different?
- Paparazzi! ✶
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Mac utility for taking screenshots of webpages that still works after many years. Bravo!
Saturday, 20 July 2024
- A Playful Path ✶
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Game maker and player Bernie DeKoven:
The basic idea of New Games is that…It’s not the game so much that’s new, it’s the attitude that people have towards playing it. Where even though we may be playing competitively, we’re not really playing against each other. We’re playing with each other. So it doesn’t really matter what game you play, you could even be playing football, but there’s a tone in the way the game is being played, that is clear that the people who are playing it are more important than the game that’s being played.
Keep thoughts open and go outside, or inside, and play.
Friday, 19 July 2024
- ♫ Satellite ✶
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By Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions.
Sunday, 14 July 2024
- G.Projector ✶
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NASA tool to transform a map image into different projections.
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
- Pixii Max Digital Rangefinder Camera ✶
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Half the price of a digital Leica M, full-frame, uses M-mount lenses, no digital screen, connects to your phone via wifi.
The small team seems good, et j’espère qu’ils s’en sortiront bien!
Leicas cost too much and their batteries don’t last which is why I shoot mostly with Fuji X100s now, though I miss a mechanical rangefinder when out in the wind.
Sunday, 7 July 2024
- What Bennet Foddy is currently reading ✶
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From the What’s on your bookshelf series over at RPS:
First of all I have to admit I feel like a bit of a charlatan answering these questions because I didn’t read anything for years, burned out from a career in academic philosophy and too besotted with games and film to look elsewhere. But I’ve picked up the habit again over the last couple of years, and at the moment I’m picking at Mary Beard’s The Fires Of Vesuvius, a historical book about Pompeii that I got started on when I visited the ruins there recently. Friends may lampoon me for embodying the ’men thinking about the Roman Empire’ trope, but at least Mary Beard thinks about it more than I do.
Saturday, 6 July 2024
- How to Grow a Community ✶
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Freedom of access. A strong community has to be physically and intellectually diverse. This is a basic lesson from smart crowd theory: too many people with the same mindset and background will make large, well-argued, and elegantly executed mistakes. You need the challenge that ignorance can bring. So removing barriers to entry lets you bring in more diversity.