The Doughnut Economics website now includes a national doughnuts explorer, allowing users to view how well (or not) their countries fare on the doughnut sustainable economic model.
Getting Off Zero is a term to describe buying your first amount of Bitcoin. If you want to start learning about the world of Bitcoin & Crypto, InvestAnswers is a great YouTube channel to follow. James published short videos most days and summarises the latest news through a lens of risk management and cautious capital preservation and growth. As a result, a lot of the hype (aka. hopeium) is relatively low.
The Stack Overflow blog published a piece on 4 software development metrics defined by Google over a 6 year project to understand high performance software teams. Deployment frequency, Mean change lead time, Mean time to restore, and Change failure rate are apparently the best way to measure software development performance in a meaningful way.
Patrick Collison of Stripe maintains a list of big projects that have been executed fast, such as The Eiffel Tower, Amazon Prime, and most recently, The Covid-19 Vaccine. The list is a great reminder that big things can be done when needed.
Tim Ferriss interviewed Balaji Srinivasan for a second time, in a monster 4.5 hour podcast. Highlights of the interview include the future of the world powered by blockchain, China & geo-political outlook, anarchy in the U.S.A. and lots more. Listen to/watch the interview, and you'll be thinking about it for a week afterwards.
An FOIA request has revealed a report from the FBI on the different types of data that can be obtained from encrypted messaging apps by U.S. law enforcement.
Sensor-js.xyz published a review of all the main javascript libraries and scripts used by websites and domains that access the sensors in your smartphone. These sensors, such as motion, orientation and light sensors, are used by for different reasons like real human detection, or display customisation.
