168 / If Adam Picked the Apple

Hey, hope your week was good!

Toot of the Week

"green transition". you bike to work while the destroyer class evaporates the oceans to run chatbots. — @hugo@assemblag.es

Working

• How Not to Disagree (boz.com)

  Andrew Bosworth about the right and wrong ways to disagree with leadership as a team lead.

• What is the point of an online conference? (scattered-thoughts.net)

  Jamie Brandon explains why online conferences are useful, even though they are different than in-person conferences.

• Latewood (everythingchanges.us)

  Mandy Brown about rapid growth and the time of focus, and why both have their time.

Software

• Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend. (programmingisterrible.com)

  tef gives advice how to build software that can change over time, and why that approach is preferrable.

Cutting Room Floor

• If Adam Picked the Apple (thenorthmeridianreview.org)

  Two poems by Danielle Coffyn, published by Wesley R. Bishop.

• What Can You Learn from Photographing Your Life? (newyorker.com)

  Joshua Rothman about the value in realism and taking pictures of the mundane.

• Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula (theatlantic.com)

  Zoë Schlanger explains the dangers of flame-retardants in plastic, and why they are a lot higher in black plastic items.

• The cultural power of the anti-woke tech bro (vox.com)

  Rebecca Jennings takes you through the history of techno-libertarians.

• If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor (theguardian.com)

  Tim Winton about our addiction on fossil fuels and why climate activists can be compared to prophets.