Cool trick – as they say, no wires required, and I just tried it out to import a receipt for reimbursement. Works really well.
Excellent news and a reading recommendation
For years, I read the absolutely amazing ‘Do the Math’ blog by Tom Murphy, a UCSD physicist carefully explaining so! many! things! (Energy: generation, storage, usage, loss. Details of his lead-acid solar/battery home setup. So much more)
Now the good news – his dormant blog tells us that he’s written a textbook based on on that work, and even better its been vetted and revised and best yet? Free online and inexpensive if you want a print copy. I cannot recommend this enough. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2021/03/textbook-debut/
ignore the code: Bookfeed.io
As I keep saying, RSS is awesome.
Beyond Burned Out
1. Unsustainable workload
2.Perceived lack of control
3. Insufficient rewards for effort
4. Lack of a supportive community
5. Lack of fairness
6. Mismatched values and skills
Beyond Burned Out
Interesting HBR paper on the causes of burnout, with links to the research.
Immigration Enforcement and the Afterlife of the Slave Ship | Boston Review
Immigration Enforcement and the Afterlife of the Slave Ship from Boston Review. Coast Guard techniques for blocking Haitian asylum seekers have their roots in the slave trade. Understanding these connections can help us disentangle immigration policy from white nationalism.
— Read on bostonreview.net/race/ryan-fontanilla-immigration-enforcement-and-afterlife-slave-ship
Damn. I had literally no idea.
Eschaton: What Will We Call The New Tea Party
It was a neat trick that for 4 years ‘Trump supporters’ were somehow distinct from ‘Republicans,’ and now we will inevitably have some other exciting new political movement that isn’t precisely associated with either of them, but they love America and freedom and are skeptical of Democrats but could be persuaded (but never are).
They will be the protagonists of our politics story, as they always are. Angry, racist, relatively affluent white people who are covered obsessively by our political press who somehow never manage to convey who they actually are, who is funding them, and what they actually want
— Read on www.eschatonblog.com/2021/01/what-will-we-call-new-tea-party.html
A good kickoff for the presidential transition.
Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway | Literary Hub
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and
— Read on lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/
A superb essay that I can’t recommend enough.
The Border Wall Is a National Monument to Trump’s Nativism
When you look at the eight prototypes as art, what do you see?
— Read on www.vulture.com/2018/01/the-border-wall-is-a-national-monument-to-trumps-nativism.html
Best idea I’ve seen in ages.
Did you vote?
Damn, what a year.
You should’ve asked | Emma
Even before COVID-19, our home was wrestling with the division of chores, emotional labor and of course money. This comic brilliantly lays it out. Here’s a single pane from the middle:
Seriously, go read the whole thing. It’ll change your mind.
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