Weekly Roundup March 22nd 2020
22 March 2020
There is so much content online with the potential to distract me that I often find it difficult to concentrate. When I’m focusing on a new idea, I often find that my focus is pulled away from it just as I get going. I might be thinking about a specific programming problem and suddenly think about some obscure article I read three years ago. What was the name of the author? Is it in my bookmarks? No. Wait. It might be saved in a text file in my dropbox. Speaking of which, I really need to sort out my entire photo library. Photos. Oh, Canon just released that new lens didn’t they? … Do you see my problem? Part of my solution to my attention defecit is to record in a blog post all of the interesting things that I’ve read, watched or listened. I have a theory that it’ll free up room in my brain. Let’s see if I’m right…
📺 I watched
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A very short talk between Bill Gates and Prof. Vaclav Smil: In addition to his philantropy, Bill Gates (and his team?) produces some great YouTube content. The Netflix documentary on him is well worth a watch, if only to inspire you to read more.
📖 I read
- Website obesity crisis by Maciej Ceglowski: the recording of this talk on YouTube is really quite good.