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Math:

   - 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

   - Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile

CS:

   - Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile

Physics:

   - PBS Spacetime: https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime

Philosophy and Pop Culture:

   - Philosophy Tube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thephilosophytube

   - Folding Ideas: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas

   - ContraPoints: https://www.youtube.com/c/ContraPoints

Film:

   - Nerdwriter: https://www.youtube.com/user/Nerdwriter1

   - Patrick H Willems: https://www.youtube.com/c/patrickhwillems

   - Every Frame a Painting: https://www.youtube.com/c/everyframeapainting
   
   - https://www.youtube.com/c/LessonsfromtheScreenplay

I wanted to like this article - I couldn't. The author lost my respect right off the bat when they hand-waved recent trends in Ontario education as "Marxism" or derivatives thereof - a failing of intellectual rigour on the author's part [1].

I will not comment on the actual court judgment itself simply because I'm not super privy to conversations surrounding public schooling in Ontario. I will, however tackle one point the author brings up about "rote-like teaching and learning methodologies". I grew up in one such "rote-like" learning system, and I'm witness to how it _kills_ the beauty of math and sucks all joy out of it. I was privileged enough to find Khan Academy around my HS days and Sal's intuition-backed approach to math was a godsend in a place where we were told to redo the same problems till our "hands memorized the problems". Rote-learning is great for multiplication tables, but anything after that is begging your students to fear/despise math. We need creative ways of teaching math so students are actually interested in the subject, and I see far more of that in the west (I have worked part-time as a math tutor in Toronto) than the rote system I was subject to.

This romanticisation of rote-methods and painting all activism as Marxism leads me to believe the author is no better than those he/she seeks to criticize and is victim to the same intellectual trappings they accuse their opponents of. If I had a kid in the Ontario public system, I'd probably be wary of my kid learning anything from this teacher - my political beliefs notwithstanding.

[1] - I'm not denying the author their right to criticize the system (they probably have valid criticisms), but if they're going to do it in a self-important manner, I'd expect more intellectual rigour than calling anything moderately activist as "Marxism".

This is a good and thorough article. The author got down to brass tacks pretty quickly and brings up interesting hypothesis about $MSFT.

That said, I do have one gripe:

> To oversimplify Notion to its demographics, it is Office 365 for people below age 35.

I recognize this is an oversimplification, but even so, it seems like a stretch. Notion is a decent product, and I have used it for a few small-scale team projects in uni (mainly for Kanban-related stuff) - but to call it a replacement for O365 is an exaggeration at best.

Yes, you can have pretty, nested documents in Notion and that's great, but a tabular database in Notion is by no means a replacement for Excel or even Google Sheets. The velocity that is afforded by Excel in terms of formulas is unmatched and there's a reason it has yet to be unseated as the kingpin of modern finance.

Most young people I know use a combination of Discord + Google Suite to collaborate. I am aware this is slightly anecdotal, but I am also having a hard time imagining myself as a founder and then asking my CFO to use Notion to prepare investor pitches.

Source: Am 23 :)

I don't think the author's American-ness disqualifies them from writing about China. On the contrary, it is their very experience as a Chinese American that helps me (an outsider) see things from a new and interesting perspective.

> some seriously confused Chinese American

I don't recall where I read this (I think it may have been Rachel Cusk), but it is a writer's job to ask questions. And what better source of questions than confusion?

That said, I'd genuinely be interested to seek your recommendations on China from Chinese sources.

> Easy resets for when you fall off.

I like this feature.

When the pandemic first hit, I realized how important routines and (associated) metrics would be in keeping me afloat in a tumultuous time. To that end, I built my own little CLI-based habit/checklist tracker and started analyzing trends and habits on a weekly and monthly basis.

It worked great at first, I had a privileged insight into my week and could therefore fine-tune parameters to optimize for certain metrics. However, as the pandemic dragged on, the drudgery of waking up from my bed and working from my desk (which is a foot away [0]) eventually caught up to me and I started burning out. Looking back, a relentless pursuit to optimize for certain KPIs was part of the reason. Having successfully mechanized a large of my life with little room for error (for fear of rebuke from those pretty charts in Tableau), I started dreading those weekly-check ins with myself, eventually dropping the habit altogether. My tracker went poof soon after that. After all, there will be no rebuke from a chart if there is no chart to begin with :))

A couple months later, I cleared the backend database, and started anew. I had also come to realize over this "break" that I should not tie my self-worth to some graphs [1], and if I was getting the important stuff done, I had little to worry about. My "system" since then has been working fairly well, I use Trello to keep track of stuff, and if something super alarming pops up, I investigate. If not, I let things flow.

I believe it would help your user retention massively if you could remind users you are not a drill sergeant, but are there to help. And part of helping them is to sometimes remind them that (bad) metrics are not a judgement of their character and its okay to let things slide. You can always start anew.

Good luck to y'all, I wish you well! :)

[0] - I am an undergrad living in off-campus housing. Real-estate is unfortunately an expensive luxury at my time in life.

[1] - I recommend Jenny Odell's book "How to do Nothing" to anyone feeling like they are on a never-ending treadmill. There are parts of it that I didn't like, but all in all, it was a good read.

> The humans preparing and serving the food are the only weak link in the chain, and they’re treated as such.

I worked nights at a McDonalds about 4 years back (first year of university) in Canada. You are spot-on about them treating humans as the weakest link.

For instance, I noticed that every carton in the freezer contains an illustration of the item inside (in addition to names in English and French). My understanding is that they simply do not trust their workforce to be able to read the contents of the carton and will gladly slap an image on top to remove any unpredictability from the process.

Disclaimer: I am not an Apple insider by any means, and this is all a hypothesis.

Their management of the bug bounty program seems like a reflection of their secretive (and perhaps sometimes siloed) internal culture. I'd argue that for any bug bounty program to be successful, there needs to be an inherent level of trust and very transparent lines of communication - seeing as though Apple lacks it internally (based on what I've read in reporting about the firm) it is not particularly surprising that their program happens to be run in the shadows as the OP describes.

I forget the exact term for it, but there is a "law" in management which postulates that the internal communication structures of teams are reflected in the final product that is shipped. The Apple bug bounty seems to be an example of just that.

Edit: Its called Conway's Law

I am somewhat interested in reading about plane crashes and such. Are there any books/resources you can recommend to me?