And #deadlifts. 2reps at 100kg (230lbs) body weight 53kg (116lbs) age 59. We are never too old to strength train pic.twitter.com/u5Zn4GKWyu
— Julianne Taylor, Nutritionist (@juliannejtaylor) April 2, 2019
Killing it.
Day: April 2, 2019, 11:00 PM
Garlanded
Is there a book you've read that meaningfully changed your mind/opinion about something?
(Mine is @DaveCullen's "Columbine.")
— Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) April 1, 2019
Many, but most recently it was Murray Shanahan’s Embodiment and the Inner Life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds.
L1
Ex-fucking-actly. The point of anyone in IT is to try their hardest to get their environment to a point where maybe, just maybe they aren’t even needed. Then that lets you bring TRUE value to your employer and focus on the real important things that staff need.
— Shane Bryan 💬 (@ShaneBryan_IT) April 2, 2019
Indeed. I try to build systems so simple and reliable that a Level 1 helpdesk person can follow a document and fix 90% of problems that occur — but the problems happen so infrequently it’s almost never needed. That is in contrast to the “Kubernetes” mindset of IT where systems are so complex that it takes a team of engineers with dozens of people to even troubleshoot a problem, much less fix it.
The latter is looked at as more intelligent and innovative, when in reality it takes much more insight and understanding to do the first option, but it’s all loaded in planning and deep understanding at the front end.
Self-P
Captain Marvel selfie. Though technically inaccurate I guess since she didn’t really have a way to take selfies. #CaptainMavel pic.twitter.com/ekUJtGX69u
— CutiePieSensei (@cutiepiesensei) March 29, 2019
Cameras existed during the 1990s and plenty of selfies were taken. Except then we called them self-portraits. My friend Taryn took many self-portraits during the 1990s. She was the first good photographer I ever knew in person. (Yes, I get the joke this person is making.)
Millennials and Gen Z might save the world, but sometimes they are funny. We had cameras and took selfies in the 1990s and even in the 1980s, too. Shocking, I know.
Smells Like
There’s a reason I didn’t link to or write about that New Yorker story about the K-T boundary “discovery.” Smelled like bullshit to me. And seems like that is in fact the case.
Same reason I never wrote about Elizabeth Holmes or Theranos on this or any other blog. Seemed like a cockamamie grift the first time I ever heard about it. And as we all know, it was.
I don’t get it right all the time, but in the market having a good BS detector is key. It’s not doing the smartest thing all the time that is most important, but not doing the stupidest thing possible is absolutely vital. Most people cannot even pass that test.
Glad to know my BS detector is still firing on all warp cores.