The National Quilt Museum highlighted a very special quilt today on their Instagram feed. My mom made this when I was 10, the same age my younger son is now.
An important story, told very well by Megan Molteni: The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill.
… people are finally starting to learn is that airborne transmission is both more complicated and less scary than once believed
This is a remarkable insight:
Trying to eliminate slack causes work to expand. There’s never any free time because we always fill it.
From Efficiency is the Enemy. Irony: I need to create some slack time to read more from Tom DeMarco.
Yesterday I woke up to my iPhone stuck in a reboot loop. Eventually I had to restore from Saturday’s backup to get it back to normal. (This is iOS 14, fully updated.)
Four hours later, my day could begin.
The line separating devious and clever is extremely thin and it lies in the eye of the observer.
Robins apparently like juniper
This is important:
The forces standing against a democracy agenda seek to preserve and expand paths to power by shrinking the voting pool rather than winning voters over.
Opinion – Stacey Abrams: Our democracy faced a near-death experience. Here’s how to revive it.
Visited an enchanted place today
cold beauty
