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It actually stops mills from working if high prices stop people buying, which turns the price down until mills can restart operations.

Didn’t Russia also say something like, laser weapons will be the future of warfare a while back?

What was that interesting Microsoft program where it was based on data vis, pixel?

Basically the premise was it was a new way to explore the web. An actual web. One topic lead to another, not just a series of web pages. See data stats, zoom into high res ads; zoom in further for what print could never give us.

Pretty sure there was an impressive Ted talk on it, at one point.

Edit: it’s called pivot https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_flake_is_pivot_a_turning_poin...

May have gotten it confused earlier with a ms photosynth talk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Live_Labs_Pivot

Why are we shocked about marketing?

Everyone is hopeful about continuing remote work in the comments, but my job isn’t allowing that option to anyone. I want to maintain remote work, but it’s not possible to shift atm, in my current situation, and the commute would be over an hour.

Disappointed to say the least.

Write stuff down, the act of writing it down and reading it more than once will help you remember

Can anyone copy and paste this?

> We have found that the role of the project manager is counterproductive in complex, creative work. The project manager’s thinking, as represented by the project plan, constrains the creativity and intelligence of everyone else on the project to that of the plan, rather than engaging everyone’s intelligence to best solve the problems.

Pretty much wish this was a defined part of agile, most of the time all my boss/pm is good for is maybe reminding me of meetings. They never understand what I’m working on to help, but they have power to make giant decisions and elevate problems I have been waiting for the client on for some time. Idk if this is a common theme.

I read a comment here a while back I agree with: your project manager, a good one, should remove obstacles that could slow you down, and anticipate them. They will only really interact when they notice bad patterns; like you being too slow. And most of the time let you be unless you introduce to new team members or elevate issues. Focus on your major tasks, allow them to manager the small mundane.

How long until the designers rethink the design and make it as thin/robust as credit cards. I think there are already some adopters of keyboards with a credit card chip reader, though not sure how mainstream popularity of it would be jump started.