links, etc BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 171: The Conservation History Of George Washington Carver With Mark Hersey this is one of the best episodes of this podcast that i’ve heard to date. there’s so much to unpack here and so much follow-up reading that it genuinely deserves. from the primacy of economics in so many things, to the post-civil war impacts on the environment because of the primacy of economics to the push for and against self-sustainability....
links, etc Opinion | Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard On the High Stakes of Low Quality - The New York Times less, but better. this is really where we need to land on things overall. i’ll admit to buying into the patagonia hype a bit. on the other hand, few things have lasted as long as the stuff i’ve purchased from them over the years. it’s a bit of a well earned premium and if it’s in serviceable shape they’ll buy their stuff back....
links, etc 10 Things Software Developers Should Learn about Learning there so much good stuff in here. i’ve only poked at formal learning processes but these are solid glimpses into we need to remember when learning. not quite what i was expecting, but fun. #learning
links, etc Michael Cohen gave his lawyer fake citations invented by Google Bard AI tool | Ars Technica and so it begins. for the handful of things where i’ve used “AI”, it’s saved me a little bit time, but you still need to crawl up the ass of the output and make sure that you’re solid. AI done right still requires that we have some form of work/validation ethic to ensure that the outputs are actually useful....