John Pavley, SVP Eng @ News Corp
NYC
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Rereading @DavidBrin โs Uplift Trilogies during the Great Pandemic. Hard science, romance, adventure, aliens, big vision! (Snap of the last 3 books)
Great story about entrepreneurial improvisation during the Great Pandemic! wsj.com/articles/need-a-lockโฆ
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Looking past quarantine... let's pause amid the gloom and assume that we'll prevail! Where are we headed for our next bold adventure?davidbrin.blogspot.com/2020/โฆ
Clock face "Secondo" I created using clockology. #clockology (when seconds count)
Mom was right: fresh air and sunlight! medium.com/@ra.hobday/coronaโฆ โ at Cranbury, NJ
Iโm completely sure this virus is not the end of civilization as we know it. But COVID-19 isnโt a problem we can solve with a pill. And most of the problems the world faces going forward are like viruses: unexpected, slow start, massive scale, and no easy answers.
The stores here in NJ are out of bread, milk, and butterโbut isnโt all that fat and starch bad for you anyway?
Hey software engineers: While youโre working from home, now might be a good time to suggest a feature freeze and focus on improving your code and tooling. When the world returns to normal we will all need to move fast to catch up!
Itโs Monday. Doing my duty and isolating socially. As an infamous introvert this is not a problem for me. But I feel bad for my extrovert friend and family.
โWe have so little leisure now that we have invented so many labor-saving devices.โ Will & Ariel Durant wrote this line 1963. Seems to have become even more true. โ at Cranbury, NJ
Of course, in our today, nobody reads Paradise Lost, of any of these significant works, cover to cover. I canโt. I donโt have the patience or time. Still, I feel I have lost something by not reading it. โ at Cranbury, NJ
I just backed Blobbiesยฎ โข Mobile Game & Transforming Holiday Gifts! on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/perโฆ