Category: Links of Interest
Eating Meat Versus Environmental Impact and Nutrients in Our Bodies
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A little while ago I shared an article on The Impact of Eating on Our Planet. It basically said that meat is not great for the environment because it takes lots of land to produce, but going vegetarian is not quite the answer either because clearing land for farming removes forest and peatland that sequester
Experienced Developers Just Google Better
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Love this post from Sophie. In an attempt to dispel the idea that if you have to google stuff you’re not a proper engineer, this is a list of nearly everything I googled in a week at work, where I’m a software engineer with several years’ experience I’ve long maintained that after 10-years coding I
Justin Jackson Doesn’t Have the Time or Money to Change Behaviour
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From Justin: The goal of bootstrapping is not to change the way people behave. I liked this article on some of the motivation differences between bootstrapping and VC funding. I’d wager that there are more people that end up successful out of bootstrapping. No not in the make a billion dollars and start a space
We Fill Out Schedules Without Realizing What’s Happened
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Julianna Poplin on No Sidebar: We fill our schedules without even realizing what’s happened. We sign onto things without knowing why we are doing them. We go with the flow of what other parents do, what friends do, or what our family does without stopping to ask questions. Do we want to be doing what
I Can’t Break Into Your House and Take Back What I Sold You
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Cory Doctorow on DRM When I was a bookseller in Toronto, nothing that happened would ever result in me breaking into your house to take back the books I’d sold you, and if I did, the fact that I left you a refund wouldn’t have made up for the theft. Not all the books Microsoft
The Impacts of Eating on Our Planet
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On eating the planet to death at Wired. So let’s start with meat. Raising livestock for slaughter is, of course, not particularly good for the planet. Animals demand lots of food and water: A single cow might consume 11,000 gallons of water a year. And that cow burps up methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas.
Austin Kleon on Kids These Days by Malcolm Harris
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I enjoy Austin Kleon’s thoughts about Kids These Days. On the one hand, we think of childhood as a place that should be free of labor — we’ve decided, collectively, that it’s inhumane for our children to slave in sweatshops or dig in a coal mine — and on the other hand, between the classroom,
Women Couldn’t Do These Things
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A sad list of things women couldn’t do in America in 1971. While some of this is better, I just finished reading Invisible Women1 and in many ways we’re barely in a better spot for women now. We can and should be doing better people. I’ll edit the review later today and have it up
Silicon Valley “Disruption” Isn’t That Transformative
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Out of a longer piece on “disruption” in Silicon Valley. Because, let’s face it, Silicon Valley technology in nearly all cases isn’t so transformative that it would simply replace the existing systems on its merits. Uber isn’t better than a good mass-transit system; Facebook isn’t better than actual friendship; YouTube videos aren’t better than quality
There Are No Notifications in a Notebook
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I also love paper and in addition to Om’s other reasons, this is a big one. Paper and pen allow you to focus, as there are no notifications in a notebook. When taking notes in a notebook, you are unlikely to be distracted with the latest tweet from your friend or the President. I even