2022-12-23
Das Lichterschwimmen via 8008-mb.ch
A wonderful Zürich tradition that I just learned about this year: the Lichterschwimmen where students float lanterns down the Limmat through the center of the city. Some how we missed this while we lived there! I’ll have to go back and see it.
2022-12-22
Just one of the 270 jobs in the 1950 census has been eliminated by automation... elevator operator.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) December 20, 2022
Other jobs that were expected to be automated by tech, like bank tellers by ATMs, just shifted the nature of the job. Hopefully, AI follows this pattern. https://t.co/F7dGbApCyH pic.twitter.com/Ck5b0ae3eO
2022-12-21
The average college educated mother in the United States spends ~2 hours a day with her children. Amazingly, this is a 100% increase from 1965.
From the Economist via Sarah Constantin
2022-12-20
Only one of Einstein’s papers was ever peer-reviewed, by the way, and he was so surprised and upset that he published his paper in a different journal instead.)
Via Adam Mastroianni, who makes a compelling case against peer review.
It does seem that writing publicly and emphasizing auditability (sharing of data and code) would be more important than anything else.
2022-12-19
We reached an important milestone for Stripe Apps last week: the marketplace is now open for all developers!
Expanding the ability to publish apps into the Marketplace has been a top focus for the team since the summer. I’m particularly passionate about this launch because I think the promise of Stripe Apps is best realized in the niches — developers making products for merchants with specific needs that will only be possible if anyone in the world is allowed to bring their creativity to bear on the problem.
I’m excited to see where this one goes!
