Favorites from July 2020

A collection of some of my favorite links, images, tweets and quotes from July. This is not an exhaustive list but does captures some things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or cool over the past month.

Reading

• Books On Books Collection - The Last Word on the Ampersand

• Jerry Saltz: My Quarantine Obsession: These Two Last Suppers

Links

• Go by Example

• LOOPY: a tool for thinking in systems

• The Four Essential V’s for a Big Data Analytics Platform

• Webster’s 1913

• Resource Rundown (for Schools & Parents) - ParentData

• Type Terms

Ideas

• Executive Communication w/ Harrison Metal’s Michael Dearing

• Java is to JavaScript, as Ham is to Hamburger. Never fails to get that ‘lightbulb’ moment.

• Have you tried making yourself a more interesting person? - Austin Kleon

• Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge — Thread by @jsjoeio

• The Difference Between Reversible and Irreversible Decisions – Ravivarman

Our lives are based on symbols and mental models that we use to understand and internalize the external world. But are our mental models “accurate working models”? — David Deutsch, via @ruthmalan

Filed for Later Use

JavaScript tip via Tomek Sułkowski: “npkill” is a nifty little tool that shows all node_modules in your system - and allows to remove the selected ones.

npx npkill

— July 31, 2020