5,000 year old frozen mummies have sweet tattoos. “Here, the authors use high-resolution, near-infrared data in conjunction with experimental evidence to re-examine the tools and techniques employed in Early Iron Age tattooing.” ~ learn more
Why is fertility down, and how much should you worry about it? An optimistic point of view that I’ll subscribe to! “These are just a few examples in which tech has been the ultimate cause of the fertility drop. Can […]
Self-sabotage. This is interesting research. “We found that some people just don’t learn from experience,” said the study’s corresponding author, Dr Philip Jean-Richard Dit Bressel, a behavioral neuroscientist and experimental psychologist at UNSW’s School of Psychology. “Even when they’re motivated […]
New study shows glucose monitors don’t lead to lower blood glucose. Reading the study, the results aren’t surprising to me. You may recall that I’m fond of this technology, so what’s up? Well, I’ve always maintained that this tech by […]
What is a fridge cigarette? This hits me hard. “The ‘fridge cigarette’ is Gen Z’s answer to the smoke break—an ice-cold Diet Coke straight from the refrigerator.” ~ learn more
Don’t die of heart disease. “You should be scared of heart disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death globally, and it’s not just an old people problem. 25% of heart attacks occur in people under the age of […]
Purposeful tinkering and grit tend to forge the strongest software engineers. “Formal education is valuable, but it is optimized for scale. It distills messy practice into neat sequences that fit a semester. Those recipes create useful proficiency, yet they rarely […]
Stop solving your team’s problems for them. “Many leaders today are struggling to balance the aspiration of being supportive with the reality of feeling overwhelmed by their own to-do list. But when a well-meaning leader becomes the default problem-solver, the […]
The largest arbitrage in technology. The case for the AI-enabled rollup. “The reason it remains attractive boils down to one thing – AI capabilities currently far outstrip market distribution. As long as that fact remains true, there is an arbitrage […]
How Discord stores trillions of messages. In 2017 they published a technical post about how they stored billions. Here’s the follow-up: “We wanted a database that grew alongside us, but hopefully, its maintenance needs wouldn’t grow alongside our storage needs. […]