Sounds like this is going to be a great column by the (great herself) Eszter Hargittai.
"There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know."
Mark Shuttleworth is trying to recruit engineering managers to Canonical. I agree that the good engineering managers need not be good engineers. I think solid tech skills do go a long way to helping engineers respect their managers. And that is important.
"Even Champagne and sparkling wines, which have so often been consigned to less-than-ideal vessels like the flute or the coupe, are better served by the all-purpose glass."
Annoyingly repeating the rumor about stemless wineglasses warming wine. Not unless you're really doing it wrong. Otherwise, a very nice write-up.
Advice on structure on a (Media Lab style) thesis.
A syllabus (but really a sort of howto guide) for onboarding students in Eric Gilbert's lab at UMSI.
Summary: Having meetings only take up as long as they need.
Extraordinarily over-detailed description of how to get cited a lot.
Buying a good bed and chair is great advice. Taking the time to decide if I want to keep every possession sounds like a lot of work.
When one moves, or finds oneself moving a lot, you should give away lots of stuff you don't use. Basic advice and I think everyone does it. Sterling tells it like a guru.
