“Unbeknown to anyone below, Nagasaki was bombed due to passing clouds over Kokura. To this day, the Japanese refer to ‘Kokura’s luck’ when one unknowingly escapes disaster.” https://aeon.co/essays/without-chaos-theory-social-science-will-never-understand-the-world
“Unscalability is anathema to the engineering mind. It’s weirdly terrifying to consider that you could be the CEO of a company devoted to feeding the world, spend your life developing the Food-o-Matic which can feed everyone on the planet, but… Read More »Recommended Read: Care Doesn’t Scale
“Modus operandi tej akcie spočíval vo výbere ľudí. Zvolili si osoby, ktoré nikdy nikam necestovali. Nikdy neopustili Moldavsko. Nemali ani cestovné pasy. Tí ľudia boli poddajní, tvarovateľní, neskúsení… vďační za možnosť letieť na výlet. Zaplatili im vystavenie dokladov a všetko… Read More »Odporúčané čítanie: Bráni Moldavsko pred ruskými diverziami: Sme pre nich ako cvičisko. Čo im vyjde tu, skúsia aj na vás
“As an organization, you have two levers to improve: increase meaningful output while using the same amount of resources, or maintain the same meaningful output while decreasing the amount of resources spent. When companies hire people, they’re hoping that their… Read More »Recommended Read:
“In every period, the essence of politics has been that a tin-pot tsar who wants to arrogate to himself the right to personal, unaccountable power needs to intimidate the honest people who are not afraid of him.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/alexei-navalny-patriot-memoir
“Processes work like tests in programming. When you find a bug, it’s not enough to just fix it because the same bug could appear next week when someone else makes changes to the code. To properly fix a bug, the… Read More »Recommended Read: Build Systems, Not Heroes
“If someone asks you a question you can’t answer, take them to someone who can answer it. If you don’t know who that is, help find someone who can.” https://luckymike.dev/posts/warm-handoffs
“ani aristokrati nemíňali viac, než bolo nutné, a snažili sa šetriť. Našli sme napríklad recept na „pistáciovú tortu“, ktorý odporúča namočiť mandle do šťavy zo špenátu. Keďže sa zafarbia na zeleno, torta bude vyzerať ako pistáciová, bez toho, aby človek… Read More »Odporúčané čítanie: Zahraničné návštevy sa sťažovali na veľa mäsa a neriedeného vína. Historička opisuje, ako vyzerali uhorské hostiny raného novoveku
“úlohou vysokej školy nie je pripraviť vás na to, čo budete robiť celý život, ale otvoriť vám obzory a naučiť vás učiť sa. Potom som už išiel po svojej linke.” https://dennikn.sk/4178429/slovensky-fyzik-vo-svajciarskom-cern-e-pozerame-sa-bohu-do-kuchyne-s-nabozenstvom-si-neprotirecime
“You may think that media is a better place to invest than the declining US steel industry or a Detroit carmaker. After all, magazines in the US don’t have to compete with offerings from China and Germany and Japan. They… Read More »Recommended Read: The Death of the Magazine