Tags: web-review, social-media, economics, tech, refactoring, management, decision-making, project-management, facial-recognition, kde, python, quality, estimates, attention-economy, forecasting, surveillance
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2021-23.
Tags: economics
I read that book out of curiosity a long while ago. This post articulates quite well why I hated it. It’s built upon selfishness and inequalities.
https://aninjusticemag.com/were-all-paying-for-someone-else-s-4-hour-work-week-not-ours-68b2168af55
Tags: tech, social-media, attention-economy
A good illustration on why social media are toxic for our thinking. They push us to focus on anecdotes and as such miss the big picture. No wonder everything got so polarized so quickly there.
https://www.disgustinglyoptimistic.com/post/don-t-let-social-media-think-for-you
Tags: tech, surveillance, facial-recognition
Very important open letter, this kind of biometric surveillance is becoming pervasive and should be stopped earlier than later.
https://www.accessnow.org/ban-biometric-surveillance/
Tags: tech, kde
Obviously thrilled to see this one released. This is a good one. :-)
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.22.0/
Tags: tech, python, quality, refactoring
AST tooling is great for porting code and code quality checks. Here are a couple of examples in python.
https://engineering.soroco.com/abstract-syntax-tree-for-patching-code-and-assessing-code-quality/
Tags: tech, management, forecasting, decision-making
Very interesting discussion about decision making and forecasting. I’m discovering Tetlock as he is mentioned and his findings are interesting in their own right as well.
https://earthly.dev/blog/thought-leaders/
Tags: tech, project-management, estimates
Last part about estimates. Plenty of very good advises again on how to deal not meeting a deadline. Communicating the bad news early is key.
https://jacobian.org/2021/jun/8/incorrect-estimates/
Tags: tech, project-management, estimates
Excellent advises on project planning and management. It explains pretty well why being optimist in those areas will just drive your project through a wall.
Bye for now!