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Henry Ford? G. K. Chesterton? Robert R. Updegraff? Charles Zueblin? Anonymous? One illuminated lightbulb in a group of lightbulbs from Pixabay Question for Quote Investigator: Thinking carefully and rigorously about an issue requires major effort. That helps to explain why shallow, lazy, and self-justifying thought is so common. Here is a pertinent quotation: Thinking is the hardest work many people ever have to do, and they don’t like to do …

If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that prematurely applying pressure to a strategy’s rollout prevents evaluating whether the strategy is effective. Pressure changes behavior in profound ways, and many of those changes are intended to make you believe your strategy is working while minimizing change to the status quo (if you’re an executive) or get your strategy repealed (if you’re not an executive). …

A polygonalization of a set of points in the plane is a non-self-crossing polygon using all the points as vertices. One way to prove that it always exists is to observe that the traveling salesperson tour is always a polygonalization, because any two crossed edges can be uncrossed in two different ways, one of which preserves the connectivity of the tour, and this cannot increase the tour length. So if …

Sophie Howe speaking at the high-level roundtable. Hours after UN Member States adopted the Pact for the Future and the Declaration on Future Generations on 22 September, SOIF convened global leaders, policymakers, UN representatives and civil society actors at a high-level roundtable. The event aimed to deliver key insights for the effective implementation of the Declaration contained in its flagship handbook, which focuses on action at the national, multilateral and …

One was at Subway. Call her Kelly, which may actually.have been her name. She was at least 15 years older than the rest of us. Raspy voice, smoked. Chatty, but fun, not annoying. Slightly broken teeth, like she’d seen some shit. Had this theory that if you buy a new car you have to take it on the highway and really gun it to “blow out the system” and thus …

Today is the day I became radicalized in my Jewish and Zionist identities. Uhhh, you thought that had already happened? Like maybe in the aftermath of October 7, or well before then? Hahahaha no. You haven’t seen nothin’ yet. See, a couple days ago, I was consoling myself on Facebook that, even as the arts and humanities and helping professions appeared to have fully descended into 1930s-style antisemitism, with “Zionists” …

I'm on a bit of a G.I. Joe: Classified Series review spree and today I'm checking out Carl "Doc" Greer, the original medic for the G.I. Joe team. Doc was a fairly prominent character in most of the various animated shows over the years and a memorable character in the original Marvel Comics run by Larry Hama. Doc's also often remembered for his death in Trucial Abysmia at the hands …

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Perfume PosseSpritz Week at Chez Portia Hiya Posse, I thought instead of a review this week I’d note the things I wore and what to. We are in Spring in ... Perfume PosseSpritz Week at Chez Portia

By: Luke StrangeLaunch of a new project We’re excited to announce the launch of a new project to create techUK’s Local Digital Index for the next 3 years (2024-2026) in partnership with The Data City. In simple terms, we're going to build a tool to see the impact and value of the tech sector for the national and regional economies. Who are techUK and The Data City? techUK is the …

Due to high demand I'm going to open the Museum of Neoliberalism for three final days this week before I'm finally kicked out of my studio, ending with a closing party on Saturday night. Museum open this week Thurs-Sat, 26th-28th Sept. 11am-7pm Party on Saturday from 8.30pm til late. All welcome. Also on Saturday from 7-8.30 is a small event where I'll be interviewing Ralph Billington, a local 88 year-old …

Over the weekend I attended my first Chilean Fiestas Patrias. Much Chilean food was consumed for the party, including sopapillas with pebre, barbecued meats, plus some beef empanadas that I made. Concluding the feast was a delicious cuatro leches cake that Ximena made. Prior to the party we enjoyed a small breakfast at The Dusty Knuckle bakery which we'd not been to for over a year. Unusually there wasn't a …

Review by Annabel Myers is one of those British authors who writes something totally different every time he puts pen to paper, with the exception that almost all of his novels are set in Northern England. His previous title was the Goldsmiths Prize-winning epic chunkster Cuddy, retelling the life of the unofficial 7th-century patron saint of the North of England, St Cuthbert, which sits closest to his 2017 prize-winning novel …

As I mentioned last week, local government elections are coming up. Local councils can't fix PT but they can advocate for improvements to infrastructure and services. And where they control roads and parking they can improve the operating environment for buses and their passengers. Here's a quick whip around all Melbourne's local government areas and what I see as the top few big PT issues for each one. This could …

Juli Clover at MacRumors: With the iPhone 15 models that came out last year, Apple added an opt-in battery setting that limits maximum charge to 80 percent. The idea is that never charging the iPhone above 80 percent will increase battery longevity, so I kept my ‌iPhone‌ at that 80 percent limit from September 2023 to now, with no cheating. … My ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro Max battery level is currently …