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Adobe Flash EOL Nightmares

On December 31, 2020 Adobe Flash reached its official End Of Life (EOL) and on January 12, 2021 Adobe disabled Flash from running. Despite months of warnings and notices, some users did not migrate away from Flash in time and have been forced into some questionable decision making in order to keep critical services running.

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Podcast of the Week: That Great Business Show with Conor McEnroy

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On a recent episode of That Great Business Show, Conall & Jamie interview Conor McEnroy, the Irish owner of a bank in Paraguay. The interview is fantastic! Conor tells stories of various adventures in business he has had in South America, like being kidnapped and gun point and being in a hotel when a bomb goes off. The latter section of the interview enters the realm of real talk where Conor spells out the clear corruption that still exists in Ireland.

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Engineering Axioms

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Martin Rue published a great list of his engineering axioms, principles to live your work life by. The useful advice stretches across the technical and social domains, like "don't pick a solution until you've thought of at least one more" and "treat people who know less than you with respect and patience".

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Conflict Resolution Models

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CTO Craft break down different conflict scenarios and the models available for resolution, such as interst-based rational approach, transactional analysis and others, in this useful blog post.

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Trees Vs Semilattices

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Taylor Pearson published an interesting post describes the disadvantages and fragility of categorising the world using trees rather than using the more efficient semilattices.

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The Podcast of The Week: Rhodes Center Podcast - The Fraught, Complex, and Important 'Economics of Belonging'

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The Rhodes Center Podcast is an economics podcast hosted by Mark Blyth from Brown University. In the episode The Fraught, Complex, and Important 'Economics of Belonging', Mark interviews Martin Sandbu about his new book The Economics of Belonging. The excellent interview covers the woes of the political and economic world and previews the solutions offered in the new book.

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Marketing Examples

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Marketing Examples is a great newsletter and website that deep dives into best practice examples of how brands, campaigns, or viral memes come about, take hold and can be engineered.

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One Item Store

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One Item Store is a shopping cart platform that lets you easily setup and sell one product. It is free to setup an account and charges a 1% fee plus payment transaction fees for any sales made using the site.

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Decision Making In Times Of Change

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Alex Rampell at a16z published a framework for decision making in times of change, using classifications within a quadrant of Structural and Emphemeral positive and negative changes.

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Mission Protocol

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Mission Protocol is a code of conduct that technology companies can adopt to ensure that their work and mission are well defined and committed to be free from harassment, abuse and other principles. The mission protocol provides a versioned standard that companies can use and display as a badge on their website.

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