April 27, 2015
Interesting Things on the Internet: April 27th 2015
- Lessons Learned in Software Development. All important, hard-won gems of lessons.
- How to Survive the Looming Tech Bubble: Ignore the Gurus. Always good to be reminded, and this is a good reminder, no to believe everything you read.
- In praise of friction. A pitch-perfect post about why you should install (this) ad-(and tracking)-blocker.
- A Quick Note on Airbnb’s San Francisco Report. This is a fantastic take-down of the statistics quoted by Air B'n'B. You could apply almost all of those complaints to any of the reports that get generated to "prove" how much value tourism/arts/council-or-gov-topic-du-jour bring to the city.
- The Slow Death of the University. "What if the value of the humanities [and the arts] lies not in the way they conform to such dominant notions [of society's prevailing ideologies], but in the fact that they don’t?"
This blog post is on the personal blog of Adrian McEwen. If you want to explore the site a bit further, it might be worth having a look at the most recent entries or look through the archives or categories over on the left.
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