Category: Links

  • Nicky Case’s Game of Trust

    This is a great way to explain how systems affect trust Trust is falling. Why? And how can we fix it? My interactive guide to the game theory of trust is now OUT! šŸ‘‰ https://t.co/2x7BfWehpJ šŸ‘ˆ pic.twitter.com/AjDBJ0w6OB — Nicky Case šŸ‘» (@ncasenmare) July 25, 2017 (via)

  • Cyber roundup

    The Cyber is big again. Huge. I think that Trump’s talk about The Cyber at this week’s debate got a bunch of people talking about cyberpunk. At least, that’s what it looked like in my feeds. I noticed a lot of posts about cyberpunk stuff which I’ve collected here: Someone built an Ono Sendai Cyberspace…

  • Man Caves and Men

    This Guy Studies Man Caves for a Living; Hereā€™s What Heā€™sĀ Learned There’s a lot of good stuff in here, but the most interesting thing to me was that a man caves areĀ an aspirational space driven by loneliness. If you build it they will come. Almost every guy tells me heā€™ll use it to ā€œhave people…

  • How Nextdoor reduced racist posts by 75%

    In April, Nextdoor started a pilot program to see if it could change its interface to discourage its users from racially profiling people in their posts. A test group of neighborhoods were shown six different variations of the form used to make a ā€œcrime and safetyā€ report for their neighborhood. Some just saw the addition…

  • Towards an understanding of technical debt – Laughing Meme

    Iā€™ve spent the last few years rather flippantly stating, ā€œTechnical debt doesnā€™t exist.ā€ What I was trying to say was, ā€œIā€™m deeply uncomfortable with how our industry talks about this thing, I think itā€™s probably harmful, but I donā€™t know quite how to express what I mean. Also, given that everyone seems to be really…

  • Some people call me the space cowboy

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    More Consensus on Coffeeā€™s Benefits Than You Might Think Just last year, a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies looking at long-term consumption of coffee and the risk of cardiovascular disease was published. The researchers found 36 studies involving more than 1,270,000 participants. The combined data showed that those who consumed a moderate amount of…

  • Nick Cave’s Red Right Hand in the style of Dr. Seuss

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